Chennai Port-Vehicle Tracking System

This is an RFID enabled vehicle authentication and tracking system, which has
been successfully piloted at Chennai port. There are some 12 gates at the port
and vehicles obtain passes from port.office for gaining access to port
warehouses through gates. There are different types of passes including
temporary ones for each day and long term ones like monthly passes apart from
port's own vehicles which require access forever. Every time a vehicle enters
and exits through gates, the security personnel at the gate checks the pass and
its validity, opens the gate manually and logs the time.

In the new system, all vehicles shall carry an RFID tag which is put on to the
windshield of the vehicle. Whenever the tagged vehicle approaches the gates, the
tag is read, its validity is checked. If it's a valid vehicle, RFID reader sends
out a signal to the electronic boom barrier and the gate opens automatically.
Log of this transaction is also maintained. Same is repeated during the exit of
any vehicle.

Apart from time and effort saving, accuracy of the information is guaranteed.
The implementers told that selecting the equipment, positioning them and
controlling the reading range were some of the key challenges faced by them.