RESEARCH ARTICLE


Conjoint Vehicle License Plate Identification System



Yair Wiseman1, *
1 Computer Science Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel


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* Address correspondence to this author at the Computer Science Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Tel: +972-3-5317015; E-mail: wiseman@cs.biu.ac.il


Abstract

Background:

An autonomous vehicle will go unaccompanied to park itself in a remote parking lot without a driver or a passenger inside. Unlike traditional vehicles, an autonomous vehicle can drop passengers off near any location. Afterward, instead of cruising for a nearby free parking, the vehicle can be automatically parked in a remote parking lot which can be in a rural fringe of the city where inexpensive land is more readily available.

Objective:

The study aimed at avoidance of mistakes in the identification of the vehicle with the help of the automatic identification device.

Methods:

It is proposed to back up license plate identification procedure by making use of three distinct identification techniques: RFID, Bluetooth and OCR with the aim of considerably reducing identification mistakes.

Results:

The RFID is the most reliable identification device but the Bluetooth and the OCR can improve the reliability of RFID.

Conclusion:

A very high level of reliable vehicle identification device is achievable. Parking lots for autonomous vehicles can be very efficient and low-priced. The critical difficulty is to automatically make sure that the autonomous vehicle is correctly identified at the gate.

Keywords: Autonomous vehicle, Automatic identification, Parking, State machine, Vehicle identification device, License plate.