Aware and smart member card: RFID and license plate recognition systems integrated applications at parking guidance in shopping mall

Abstract

Member card can provide personal identification, authentication, data storage, and application processing. It may provide strong marketing media for customer relationship within business organizations. In this paper, the integrated applications of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) and license plate recognition (LPR) are presented. We applied RFID and LPR techniques integrated, meanwhile, we collected the vehicles self-adhered e-Tag ID data. All of these development to compile on the member card as a linking media, it provided the more premium services for card holder. By the cumulative utilization and analysis data of member card, it has become an essential connection between the customers and the companies. It is not only added card self-valued, but also do grasp customers' preference. This proposed system is composed of three main modules at RFID (3M e-Tag), LPR (Image processing), and RFID (NXP MIFARE), respectively. It is designed to meet the requirements of performance and can be generally applied to the commercial markets (e.g., other malls, marts, department stores) that also operate parking lots which face similar problems.