ABSTRACT

The main objective of this project is to design and implement a digital control system to maintain the flow of traffic on the road and digitally access the accounts of the people crossing over the toll booth. Thus, this toll booth system detects the vehicle and then automatically opens the way of the vehicle after deducting the appropriate amount that is to be charged according to the type of vehicle used. The system stores all the necessary information about the user. A new user is first registered with the system and the corresponding information is burned on the RFID tag and according to the RFID no. a prepaid account is developed on the database for that user. Once, the tag user authentication is performed, system generates a control signal through parallel port. This control signal goes to a control circuit. RFID reader was connected to the system through USB port to provide communication between system and RFID reader. The output control signal controls the opening and closing of door by means of stepper motor. Whenever, a vehicle arrive a toll booth the digital system recognizes the vehicle and when the RFID tag is swiped off the module the account information can be read and so according to the type of vehicle a certain amount is deducted from that account. After this deduction the system opens the way of the vehicle to cross over minimizing the time required by the manual labor and allows the next one to swipe maintaining the flow of the traffic.