RFID-Enabled Automatic Toll Gate Automation Using ESP32: Design and Performance Evaluation

In the proposed automatic toll gate using RFID communication, everything from identification to deduction of toll to actuation of barrier can be performed by using low cost embedded controller (ESP32 microcontroller) under lab test environment. The design on purpose is narrow. It doesn't mention any toll plaza is a public one. It has a very strong attribute of having a disciplined presence of all those RFID sensing and deterministic authentication, checking of the account state, servo control, logging and measurable performance-testing attributes. The stability of the inner dynamics of a set of 1200 data records in the prototype was measured. As for the read success of RFID the closer the RFID approach to the surface the better was the read success, as it was removed, the success of the read also dropped. The accepted trans (deduction & servo) had a larger time per accepted/operation. Not a fault. Generally, the amount of money that can be typically expected to complete a valid transaction. Unauthorized, expired, blacklisted, low balance and unreadable cases didn't cause the stored balance to be deducted along with the gate remaining shut, as was the case previously. The accounting rule was thus constant through all of the test cases. The determinants property of the control policy was verified by the trained gate-action classifier and transaction-time regressor made a good approximation for the timing variation that can be used for prototype analysis. These models are not meant to be used in place of the Integrated Rule. They see that variable patterns of operation can be produced that have stable patterns and can be used for later optimisation. Future work would aim to achieve a hardware-in-loop testing and also scale up to more tags within the testbed as well as do more testing with environmental stresses including heat, vibration, fluctuation in power supplies etc. To consider: implement a database on a secured cloud, encrypted use of the UIDs, audit logs, and vehicle verification camera and mobile recharge prior to deployment. Could be offline operations using solar – cache could be helpful in low network connectivity. More versions of the timing protocols are also to be added in the future once comparing the performance of ESP32 and Industrial controllers. The final test shall be a field trial. Until then the claims shall remain in the prototype phase, and experimental bounds.

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