Pages

Saturday 27 June 2015

ePlate: RFID Embedded Vehicle Registration Number Plate



Cars 2 – the evil twin lives on (2 July 2011)

Due to the problems of cloned vehicles, ePlate implementation has been suggested.

Criminals will have a hard time once e-plate is reintroduced (4 July 2013)

It seems like the problem of cloned vehicles will never abated if ePlate is not introduced.

Syndicate selling cloned vehicles busted (22 April 2015)

ePlate proposal surfaced several years ago because a regular number plate is:
  • too easy to fabricate hence easily forged to replace with another.
  • non-conformity to regulations and specifications.
  • fabricated using low quality materials hence broken easily or fallen off number/character.
  • non-reflective hence difficult to recognize from afar.
  • not adhering to the world best practices of national standardized number plate.


Therefore, ePlate is embedded with UHF RFID that enables the electronic identification of the vehicle. UHF tag in the ePlate be uniquely identified by a UHF reader to:
  • Validate the vehicle identity.
  • Monitor or control various events.

With MySikap and Automated Enforcement System, JPJ actually has the back bone infrastructure to implement ePlate.



However, ePlate proposal did not gain traction among the people due to several reasons:
  • Currently, the price for a regular number plate is about RM25 (car) and RM10 (motorcycle) per piece. ePlate is much costlier because it is of higher quality and lasts longer.
  • Most probably the RFID will expire first as RFID life span is only few years. Although the RFID tag is quite cheap, but people has to replace the entire ePlate despite that the plate itself is still in good condition.
  • ePlate has to be custom made and cannot prefabricate because registration number can go to car (bigger character size) or motorcycle (smaller character size) and other reasons. Then it has to be riveted to the vehicle only by authorized personnel. Replacing the ePlate such as due to registration number interchange or damaged ePlate because of accident, will be very much a hassle.
  • Driving with dysfunctional RFID will be illegal. People actually do not know whether their ePlate is still working or not.

Therefore of the Government still want to implement RFID tag, it is much wiser to embed RFID in road tax sticker as the sticker will expire in one year at longest. The RFID tag will still working perfectly within one year, and the cost to replace a road tax sticker is inexpensive.

No comments:

Post a Comment