Patent ID: 9076331
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: B60R,G07C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A system for monitoring vehicles on a roadway, said system comprising: a plurality of RFID tags affixed at various pre-designated locations along a roadway, wherein each of said RFID tags is encoded with RFID tag information that may be used to determine a physical location of any of said RFID tags on said roadway; a first RFID scanner installed on a first vehicle to wirelessly interrogate said RFID tags as said first vehicle travels on said roadway and/or to wirelessly receive said RFID tag information from said RFID tags as said first vehicle encounters any of said RFID tags on said roadway; a first transceiver installed in said first vehicle and operatively connected to said first RFID scanner to receive said RFID tag information from said first RFID scanner and to re-encode and transmit at least said RFID tag information wirelessly as at least a first RF signal; at least one roadside repeater station to wirelessly receive at least said first RF signal from said first transceiver and to re-transmit the information encoded in at least said first RF signal; and a remote central tracking station, having at least one database, wherein the remote central tracking station is configured to: