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Case Study | Vehicle Identification Nationwide vehicle identification at the foot of the pyramids
INDUSTRY Automotive industry
About the case study
RFID technology for comprehensive, efficient and tamper-proof vehicle identification in Egypt
Key Benfits
- Increased road safety - through vehicle identification
- Efficient management with contactless RFID technology
- Highly secure data transmission to government systems
KATHREIN PRODUCTS
- Kathrein RRU 4500 reader
- Kathrein RAIN® RFID hardware
PARTNER BENEFITS
RFID technology for implementing a secure vehicle identification solution
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Initial situation
Egypt has around 100 million inhabitants, 20 million of whom live in Cairo alone. There are around 20 million cars on the road in the country and the number is growing every day. Many of these cars are very old and some are not registered. The number of accidents per year is one of the highest in the world. These are many reasons that speak for a new, innovative and comprehensive solution for vehicle identification.
Solution
In order to meet the requirements of an entire country, strong local partners are needed to take the issue into their own hands. Together with Go+, Kathrein Solutions was able to set up an end-to-end high security solution for optimal identification of vehicles in multi-lane free flow. The windshield transponders and headlamp tags will be used throughout the country. They are based on NXP's GEN2V2 UCODE® DNA technology with 128-bit AES encryption. With its pioneering semiconductor technology, NXP offers the standard and the basis for the required high security requirements. Thanks to a specially destructible antenna structure, various cuts and a VOID surface, the tag also offers an extremely high level of protection against removal and reuse. These transponders are encoded on site under official protection by a specially developed personalization machine. To complete the security chain, the Kathrein RAIN® RFID hardware used also includes the GEN2V2 standard and supports UCODE® DNA. Kathrein's RRU 4500 reader in combination with the wide-range 30° antenna ensures lane-selective identification of the vehicles. Supported by an ANPR (Automated Number Plate Recognition) camera, visual data from the license plate, together with the read RAIN® RFID data, can be transmitted to the backend via an interface. An external high-security module ensures secure communication from each highway bridge to the government backend.
Result
The contactless GS1 UHF RFID Gen2 v2.0 technology offers end-to-end identification with 128-bit AES encryption for tag authentication, which also delivers top performance at high speeds. Egypt is making a big statement with this project, as it is the only one of its kind in the world.
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Case Study | Vehicle Identification Nationwide vehicle identification at the foot of the pyramids