Avishkar Tech Cop: Concept Project

The yearly state competition Avishkar, is a student competition for UG and PG students to come up with new and innovative ideas in the field of Science.

I participated in the Avishkar 2015 contest as a first year UG student and designed a concept for automated detection and penalization of traffic light offenders and road tax collection.

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Concept Sketch

System Design:

• An overhead gantry with an RFID Transceiver and Micro -controller Unit needs to be installed at traffic signals.

• An RFID tag must be installed within the chassis of the vehicle and the bank details of the vehicle owner must be linked with the same.

• The RFID readers in the gantry at traffic signals would be switched ON when the traffic light is RED. If a vehicle skips the red light; the RFID tag inside the vehicle would get scanned by the reader.

• The MCU within the gantry would then transmit this data in real time to a server which would deduct a fixed fine amount from the bank account linked to the car.

• A similar overhead gantry can also be used to automatically deduct road tax from vehicles on the highway.

• A gantry placed on the highway would automatically detect the RFID tags of multiple vehicles passing from below it at high speeds and deduct a fixed amount from their banks automatically.

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To showcase my concept I created a simple styrofoam model and designed poster explaining the concept, its implementation and the technologies used in it for better understanding.

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