My old homestead, Bermuda, has jumped into the RFID pool.
Over the next five years, the program is expected to generate over $11 million in lost fees from unlicensed and uninsured vehicles, according to a press release. At the same time TCD expects to reduce the number of non-compliant vehicles on the island’s roadways to less than 1 percent, officials said.
The program kicks off this month.
Here’s how the whole system will work, from tag issuance to back-end data collection. A unique identification number will be established for each vehicle registered on the island; each number, or code, is then linked to a record in a centralized vehicle database.
Having lived on the island I was always amazed that a car could be stolen in such a small. The entire place is only 20 square miles (ish). Yet time and again it would happen. Scooters would vanish too but, those had a bad habit of ending up in the ocean up near the former Casemates prison in the Dockyard.
On Bermuda’s highways and byways throughout the country a network of fixed reader points will be established to verify vehicle registration and compliance.
Highways? Has the author been to Bermuda? I wonder how they will handle having four or five cars all appearing as the same registration? That would be something come to think of it. Send four cars with the same RFID tag to different parts of the island and enjoy the confused looks on the Bermudian govies.
[tags]RFID, Bermuda, Vehicke Tracking[/tags]
