An Architecture of the Vehicle Tracking System Based on RFID

Abstract

Vehicle tracking plays more important roles in modern transportation and logistics operation. This paper deals with a new approach to track vehicles based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology. The basic steps of vehicle tracking based on RFID are introduced and a six-layered architecture for the vehicle tracking system integrating databases, RFID tags, RFID readers, data centers, networks and user interface is presented, where the positions of vehicles are attained directly by compared the RFID readers collecting vehicle RFID tags with their position information in the database. It is shown that this vehicle tracking method uses RFID more fully, the architecture with clear levels, adapts to the future technical and practical requirements, and can help fuse more complicated applications like intelligent charging and cargo tracking.