Vehicle Tracking Solution using RFID


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INTRODUCTION

The automatic vehicle tracking facility delivers the flexibility, scalability, and responsiveness that today's
organizations need. It provides accurate, up-to-minute information, high- speed communication, and
powerful analysis features required to make better decisions faster. The major potential comes from the
much acclaimed no line of sight and simultaneous reading properties of RFID.
It is now widely recognized that real – time vehicle information will revolutionize the control and logistical
organization with significant vehicle fleets. In a global marketplace where productivity is crucial to
success, vehicle fleet operators use vehicle management systems as a formidable tool to drive down costs
and increase the value of their service.

PAIN AREAS

Operational Inefficiencies: Being in the manufacturing and transportation business, availability of
vehicles and operational efficiency are crucial areas. Due to manual processes, the companies are finding
it difficult to determine the exact cycle for a vehicle carrying goods from the factory to a particular
destination and carrying raw material as a return load back to the factory. With a mission to improve
operational efficiency in terms of cycle-time monitoring and fleet management, the companies are ready
to adopt technologies that takes care of vehicle tracking.



HOW THE TECHNOLOGY WORKS:

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices consist of tags and readers that assist in the tracking of
goods and vehicles. Tags are the devices that give identity to the vehicle and work like a wireless name
plate. It transmits it identity to readers which are placed at strategic locations like entry/exit of a
premise, highway, weighing bridge, parking lots and others. Readers pick up these signals and transmit
them to the centralized data servers from where the information can be viewed or utilized any where.
These readers can also trigger the other peripheral devices like an access control mechanism- boom
barrier to operate as per the business logic. For. e.g on identifying a known vehicle, a reader can signal
the boom barrier to open and allow the vehicle automatically. The read-range of the reader varies from
5m to 30 m depending upon the technology(Passive Vs Active) in place.
The use of RFID technology also necessitates the purchase and utilization of either fixed or hand held
readers which can help the guard to quickly access the vehicle information by bringing the device near the
vehicle.



BENEFITS OF VEHICLE TRACKING
1. Tracking vehicles within the plant: The use of RFID in a vehicle assembly line ensures optimum
operation, enhanced efficiency and eliminates the possibility of fraud and theft. Strategically
positioned fixed RFID readers with multiple tag reading capability trace the newly finished cars as
they leave the product line. In this way vehicles can be tracked throughout the plant.
2. Prevents manipulation of data: The security issues RFID tags to the trucks that are coming inside
the premises. It is attached to the truck that carries the cane load and identification is done
throughout its journey.