Giving Vehicles Brains:
Intelligent Vehicle Identification
Team 3
Tyler Hinkle (Captain)
Samuel Blair
Matthew Batdorf
Bhavesh Joshi
Anjuli Gupta
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Agenda
Why is Intelligent Vehicle Identification
needed?
Solution
Technical Details
What added features could be included?
Costs
Impacts
Future Improvements
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Problem Statement
Intelligent Identification of Vehicles
How do we outfit all vehicles?
What will be the benefit?
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Problem Background
225 million cars on the road in the U.S.
712,000 Hit-and-Run vehicle accidents each year
Cost of over $7 billion each year
Accountability for one’s driving
Roads Safer
Lower Insurance Costs
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What is already being done?
Two current methods of identifying vehicles
involved in accidents
Eyewitness testimony
Expensive products like the Digital Eyewitness
Records video on a 3 minute loop
Driver sees an accident and physically records it
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Alternatives
Video Surveillance
RFID (Radio Frequency
Identification)
Magnetic Identifiers
Contact Points http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci213219,00.jpg
Wire Frame Technology
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Work Done Toward Solution
Designing
Models and Simulations using automated programs
Research
Best transmitter in least amount of space
RFID and Smart-Card Technology
Contacted PennDOT and Lenel Systems
Testing
Simulations in various accidents and traffic conditions
Assessment
Retesting
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Solution
Criteria
Recommend that every vehicle has the device
The device should be required by law to pass
inspection
It should comply with FCC standards and other
existing systems and environments
It should add a one-time-only cost to the driver
It should reduce the number of Hit-and-Run type
accidents
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Solution
Device
Smart-Card based system will be installed in the
dashboard of every vehicle
Vehicle recognition
Smart Card system would have owner information stored on it
Full Name
Vehicle Identification Number
Registration Number
Model, Make, and Year
Insurance Information
Equipped with a transmitter and receiver
Detects accidents by proximity, sonic activity, and seismic activity
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Solution the vehicle’s
After an accident, the device would emit
information and receive information of other cars involved
Since both cars involved would send and receive information, a
“handshake” occurs and information was successful exchanged
Only law enforcement personnel should be able to view and
print the incident record and vehicle information
Other evidence such as skid marks and matching damage may
also need to be investigated.
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Solution
Added Benefits Included in Device
Paying tolls
Tollbooths would also be equipped with a RFID transponder
Similar to EZpass
Paying for parking
System would have an optional prepaid balance
Meters and Garages would have a Smart-Card reader
It would record arrival/departure times and charge the account
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Technical Details
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
Signals are coded for security
Frequency range (30KHz -650KHz) to activate
emission “Burst” of Active/Passive system for Tolls
Tiny fraction of a second duration to complete
“handshake” communication (retransmission for
accuracy)
Application Specific Integrated-Circuit technology
(ASIC) to limit size
Signal up to 5 Meters
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Costs
Development and Testing
1 year = 2000 hours x 25 engineers x $40 an hour
$2 Million
Scenario Testing: Approximately $2 Million
Manufacturing and Implementation
225 Million Vehicles X Cost of about $60 per device
Cost of about $13.5 Billion
Overhead cost of about $100 Million
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Total one-time-only cost of just over $13.5 Billion
Benefit of $7 Billion EACH year for not-at-fault drivers
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Impacts
Environmental
Waste
Effects of Radio Frequency Transmission
Social
Ethics
Privacy
Signal Restriction
Should not be used to monitor speeding
Obligations
Help discourage dishonest driving
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Summary
If our recommendation would be adopted then
every vehicle should be equipped with a single
device that
Identifies the owner of the vehicle
Holds the owner responsible for driving habits
Optional features of automatically paying tolls and
parking fees
Government Involvement Essential
Everyone should have it for the system to work
“Phase in” plan
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Future Work
Additions to system
Soon could be used to buy products and services
Gasoline
Maintenance
Convenience stores
Lemon-law
Could also record vehicle history
CarFAX
Warranty work
Recall record
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Questions?
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