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Huipig Huang, Shide Xiao, Xiangyin Meng
Mechaical Engineering Deparment
Southwest Jiaotong University
Chengdu, China
e-mail: hhping2@l63.com
AbsractAn ETC system based on RI technology uses
radio wave to identfy cars passing through the toll collecton
site and automatcally debits toll rate from the car owner's
pre-paid account RI technology and its application in
highway ETC system is analyzed in this paper. SNMP is a knd
of protocol that has been widely used in network management
system for many years. Because of its easy use and strong
exansibility, SNMP is suitable for network management of
ETC system. After introducing the basic knowledge of SNMP,
this paper studies how to use SNMP to manage the RI
readers and te toll collection workstatons remotely.
Krs- Electronic ToO CoDecion (ETC) system; Radio
frequenc identfcaton (FI); Simpl Neor Management
Protcol (SNMP)
I. INTRODUCTION
With te amount of cas in China increasing greatly in
recent yeas, the trafc of te highway passageways is
becoming congested especially in holidays because of the
low efcient manual toll collection. How to improve
highway efciency, speed up te vehicle passage, ad
minimize te possibility of mistaen and unsuccessfl
collection is a great prblem to be solved now. An Electonic
Toll Collection (ETC) system is just te right solution for
this problem. Electonic Toll Collection is a kind of
technology tat allows for electonic payent of tolls. An
ETC system ca deterine whether a ca has been registered
in a toll payment proga, ad alert the enforcers if toll
payent violation occurs, ad debit the corresponding
account. With ETC, the driver does not have to stop the
vehicle to implement toll payent [1]. Over the last decades,
ETC systems have been implemented in United States ad
some countries, ad caused a signifcant improvement in toll
collection process. Now, wit te fast improvement of RFID
technology in China, several ETC systems have been
implementd for test on some highways recently in our
couty.
Radio fequency identifcation (RFID) technology uses
radio waves to automatically identif people or objects.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNM) is a
component of te Trasmission Contol Prtocol/ntemet
Prtocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite. It is used widely in
network management systems to facilitat the exchange of
management information between diferent network-attached
devices. By combining RFI ad SNM technology, tis
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paper investigates how to apply RFID technology to set up a
highway ETC system, and how to use SNM protocol to
manage te RFID readers ad te toll collection workstations
remotely. The system architectue is illustated in Fig.l.
II. ApPLICATION OF RI TECHNOLOGY IN ETC SYSTEM
RFID is a abbreviation for Radio Frequency
Identifcation. This technology uses radio waves to tasmit
the identity of a object or person wirelessly. It incororates
a small electronic chip called RFI tag. Data is stored on tis
chip and ca ten be "read" by RFI readers. RFID
technology does not require contct or line of sight for
communication [2]. As illustatd in Fig.2, a basic RFID
sytem consists of tree components [3]:
ses
troug te toll collection site, te loop sensor apperceIves
the car; The RFID reader sends out radio wave of
questioning signal. Then, te RFI tag on ca sends out radio
wave of responding signal. I tis way, two-way
communication ad data exchage happes between the
reader ad tag on car. Then, te RFI reader transmits the
information received fom the tag to te host computer
systm for frter data-processing and storage [4, 5]. ETC
automatically debits toll aount fom the vehicle ower's
pre-paid account.
III. USE SNM To MAAGE TH ETC SYSTEM
A. Intoduction ofSNM
The Simple Network Maagement Protocol (SNM) is a
component of the Trasmission Contol Prtocol/nteret
Protocol (TCPIIP) protocol suite as defmed by the Interet
Engineering Task Force (IETF). It is a UDP-based network
protocol. As an applicaton layer protocol, it is used widely
in network management systems to facilitate te exchage of
management information between diferent network-attached
devices. It also helps the network administrators to monitor
the conditions of network devices for attention.
SNM is based on the manager/agent model. An SNM
managed network has fou key components: a SNM
manager, managed SNM devices, an SNM agent, a
database of maagement information (MI), ad te
network management prtocol [6].