Vehicle Recognition System using low cost IEEE 802.15.4
This research is an effort to develop a low power and cost efficient VRS (Vehicle Recognition System) by making use of ZigBee (short-range wireless technologies). VRS is a system in which the image of the vehicle is captured using High Definition cameras installed at the road. The image is u
2025-06-28 16:29:55 - Adil Khan
Vehicle Recognition System using low cost IEEE 802.15.4
Project Area of Specialization RoboticsProject SummaryThis research is an effort to develop a low power and cost efficient VRS (Vehicle Recognition System) by
making use of ZigBee (short-range wireless technologies). VRS is a system in which the image of the vehicle
is captured using High Definition cameras installed at the road. The image is used to detect the vehicle type
(car, van, bus, truck, and bike etc.), its color (white, black, blue etc.), its name/model (Toyota Corolla, Honda
Civic etc.) and then this image is processed using segmentation and Optical Character Recognition
techniques to get the vehicle registration no. in the form of characters.
Our major target is Pakistani vehicles and as we see in Pakistan many vehicles do not use number plates
provided by the Govt. The drivers/owner prints the architectural/graphical plates with tattoos and texture and
uses them in place of those provided by govt. So, we are targeting all kind of number plates having tattoos
on it, different font styles, and different color schemes. Our proposed algorithm for the system will be efficient
enough to extract information from custom made registration number plates as well.
This information then can be used for different purposes e.g. Information collection for Government agencies,
Parking, E-Toll for highways and entrance of authorized vehicles in sensitive areas like army buildings,
Judiciary offices and Hospitals etc.
In this research VRS will be developed using low power and cost efficient short range wireless technology,
ZigBee. The system will be developed in such a way that image is processed at the run time using a System
Controller with Cameras installed at the roadside. After extracting the information of the vehicle from the
captured image at the road site, the information will be provided to the control center using ZigBee. Use of
ZigBee in this research will reduce the cost of the system by using low cost wireless modules and avoiding
the use of fiber optics. Furthermore it will make the system power efficient since ZigBee modules consume
very low power for operation and work for years on the same batteries, which will also reduce the hassle of
changing batteries every now and then.
Normally the VRS are developed in such a way that they only capture the image of the registration number
plate and that information is then converted to characters using OCR algorithms. However in our proposed
VRS, using the combination of vehicle type, color, name and registration number plate will recognize the
whole vehicle. This system will provide detailed information of the vehicle which can be used to develop
systems like stolen vehicle recovery systems, toll collection systems, authorized entry systems and parking
management systems.
To provide a low cost vehicle recognition system solution to government and private organizations to
monitor the surroundings. The system will be 10 times less expensive than already available foreign
solutions.
2. To provide an automated system to law making authorities (Traffic Police) for traffic control and
maintenance.
3. To help security agencies in improvement of security of the country by tracking record of vehicles on the
road.
4. Entry and exit control system of vehicles. This system will help both public and private organizations for
secure usage of their premises.
5. Monitoring of suspicious vehicles in some certain area. Again this service can be used for law enforcing
agencies.
6. Tracking and monitoring of an individual vehicle in some predefined premises.
If the proposed system is installed at the security sensitive areas like High court, Army HQ, Police HQs etc., the
system will identify the vehicle using its registration number thus allowing entry and exit of authorized vehicles.
This automation will remove the need of security officers for manual checking of each individual vehicle. This will
bring fringe benefits such as improvement in security, speeding the process of vehicle authorization and reduction
of human errors while performing manual checks. The system will further help in tracking and monitoring of
vehicles on the roads. Initially system will identify different features of the vehicle such as type, color, make and
registration number via the processing unit deployed with the traffic camera on the road. This information will be
compared against the vehicles record from excise and taxation department. Based on this comparison, system will
be able to identify stolen and suspicious vehicles through their record and warn law enforcing agencies. The
system can be further used for some very useful applications such as speed check, traffic control, toll collection,
border crossing and identification of stolen vehicles.
VRS will be a security enriched system which will be used by both public and private organizations. Several
organizations as a whole or at individual level can benefit from the proposed system. In the following, we
enlist some of the beneficiaries of this project:-
? Law enforcement and Traffic Monitoring Agencies
o City / Provincial / Federal Police
Traffic/Army Police
o Rescue 1122
o Rangers
o Elite/Dolphin Force etc.
? Private security providing firms
? Privation/government firms working as vehicle tracking providers
? Public / Private firms in restriction of authorized vehicles
? G.T /Ring / Motorway/ road police
? Parking authorities at places such as
o Shopping malls
o Airport
o Railway stations
Initially, image of the moving vehicle will be captured using High Definition Cameras mounted at a predefined
height on some pole or traffic signal. Our embedded processor with the camera will extract useful features
such as (type, color, name, registration number plate etc.) from the captured image of the vehicle. Since this
information will be in text format with only labels showing such information with words alone, it will be
forwarded to the main control center using ZigBee modules. The developed system will facilitate conduction
of this information wirelessly in an area of about one KM, which results in sufficient time to decide planning
of suitable actions. We have taken into consideration that the developed system is capable of taking vehicle
images while they are moving with different speeds. Also, processing of information at the process unit on
the roads, allows real time processing of the captured images and useful information can be extracted at real
times. At current times, ZigBee data transfer rate is only 250Kbps. Since, all the processing is done at the
embedded processor at the road, we have to transfer only few bytes resulting in successful transfer of data
through ZigBee.
| Item Name | Type | No. of Units | Per Unit Cost (in Rs) | Total (in Rs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total in (Rs) | 80000 | |||
| Thesis and publication | Miscellaneous | 2 | 5000 | 10000 |
| XBEE Pro, XBEE Explorer Regulator, XBEE chip (x 2) | Equipment | 1 | 13000 | 13000 |
| Tp-Link TL-WN727N Wireless Wifi USB Adapter | Equipment | 5 | 1700 | 8500 |
| HP LaserJet Pro MFP M28w | Equipment | 1 | 30600 | 30600 |
| HD Infra Red Camera | Equipment | 1 | 11900 | 11900 |
| 1 TB HDD for Storage of images | Equipment | 1 | 6000 | 6000 |