CONDUCTING TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE
FOR MOTOR VEHICLE TAXATION
Anwar A.Memon
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.
Jamshoro, Pakistan.
E-mail: anwar.memon@faculty.muet.edu.pk
Arslan R. Memon
Institute of Information & Communication Technologies,
Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro. Pakistan.
E-mail: arslan.memon27@gmail.com
A. Hakeem Memon
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.
Jamshoro, Pakistan.
E-mail: hakeem.memon@faculty.muet.edu.pk
Recepción: 01/08/2019 Aceptación: 23/09/2019 Publicación: 06/11/2019
Citación sugerida:
Memon, A.A., Memon, A.R. y Memon, A.H. (2019). Conducting trac surveillance
for motor vehicle taxation. 3C Tecnología. Glosas de innovación aplicadas a la pyme. Edición
Especial, Noviembre 2019, 221-231. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17993/3ctecno.2019.
specialissue3.221-231
Suggested citation:
Memon, A.A., Memon, A.R. & Memon, A.H. (2019). Conducting trac surveillance
for motor vehicle taxation. 3C Tecnología. Glosas de innovación aplicadas a la pyme. Speciaal
Issue, November 2019, 221-231. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17993/3ctecno.2019.
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ABSTRACT
Excise taxation is the Sind government department that registers the vehicles running
across Sind. This department is responsible for collecting the revenue in lieu of Token
tax and annual running tax from the vehicles running under the registration number
of Sind. The tax payment checking is manual, means every vehicle is stopped for
snap checking. Manual verication is very tiring and cumbersome, so that every
vehicle could not be checked. In developed countries this all is done through online
automatic system. An online portal is introduced by the excise department on which
the verication of the vehicle can be done in terms of its bogusness. But this portal
and online recovery of annual tax is not concerned for the detecting of the defaulters.
This research focuses on the detection of the defaulters. As the date expires the
vehicle would be monitored at any toll tax stop after the recognition of the number
plate data. An automatic checking method is used for detection. This method uses
the technology that is called Automatic vehicle number plate recognition (AVNPR).
This tool uses the image processing procedure to read the number plate numbers
and characters.
KEYWORDS
AVNPR, Face recognition, Image processing.
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1. INTRODUCTION
As a developing country, Pakistan is in the revolution phase. The data of every resident
is not available in any central database so that if any crime occurs the person could
not be detected according to his/her background history. In developed countries
every person is under observation and their record is available in a centralized
database. The payment of taxes and recovery of default tax payers is very dicult
task. The vehicle tax is collected by the excise and taxation department. In normal
routine, motorists pay their tax by visiting any excise and taxation oce or in any
authorized bank. The tax payment is very dicult in rural area, where the oce or
authorized bank is not available. It is very dicult to observe the nonpayment of
this tax. The only way of paid or unpaid vehicle is to look onto the wind screen that
must have a sticker. Sometimes these stickers are not available in the tax oce so only
the receipt is issued to the customers. The checking of every vehicle by the police
sergeants is a hard job.
This research is the design of an automatic recovery and checking system that will
make the process easy and reliable. The motor vehicle tax is collected from the vehicle
owners on annual or bi-annual basis. But the collection is not good percentage of
the intended collection, because the checking system is very old manual in nature
(Yan, 2001; Hontani, & Koga, 2001). The procedure and design suggested in this
document will make it easy and time saving. In this procedure, image of the number
plate is captured when the vehicle stands at the toll tax plaza. The number plate
numbers and characters are sent to the database of excise and taxation department
for online checking. The message is sent to the mobile for the defaulter or clearance.
The portal on the site of excise and taxation department Sind government is shown
in Figure 1.
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Figure 1. The screen shot of the online portal.
Figure 2. Sticker provided by the excise department xed at wind screen.
It is very hard job to check every vehicle in hectic trac at the toll plaza or at any other
point. It may take hours to complete the job and trac may be blocked (Mohamed
Hussain, Allwyn Rajendran Zepherin, Shantha Kumar, & Abirami, 2015).
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Figure 3. Manual road checking excise inspector causes trafc jam.
This research is documented to provide an automatic and technical solution of this
problem. A prototype of this intelligent system is designed that uses a technology
named automatic vehicle number plate recognition (AVNPR). This technology uses
the image processing tool for capturing and processing the number plate xed in
front of every vehicle (Mohamed Hussain et al., 2015). The characters and numbers
are identied and accessed from the database of the taxation department which is
available online. The capturing is done through web cameras xed at tool plazas or
at any entrance of the city. The alert signal and message are sent to the cell phone of
the vehicle owner about nonpayment of the tax.
2. APPLICATIONS OF AVNPR SYSTEM
The system of detection of the number plate uses the technology of image processing
(Posada-Gómez, Sandoval-González, Martínez Sibaja, Portillo- Rodríguez, & Alor-
Hernández, 2011). It has unlimited application, in face recognition, monitoring of
the employees in any industry, robotics systems and trac signals etc. The problem is
that how the owner of vehicle makes bound to pay the tax within the given time. The
solution of this problem is documented in the literature (Figueiredo, Ribeiro, Arthur,
& Conforti, 2011; Hansen, 2002) which discusses the application and integration
of the state of art computers with electronic hardware and global system of mobile
communication, internet and AVNPR.
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Figure 4. Web Cam xed at any center point.
Figure 5. Camera.
The vehicle tax verication software is interfaced with LABVIEW that uses the
computer application software along with recognition packages.
3. HARDWARE
Radio frequency system, global system of mobile GSM m900D kit and USB port is
used as shown in Figure 7 and Figure 8.
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4. DATABASE
The data collected through the prototype is checked in the database created for
prototype application. The database which is used for placing the information of car
owner that is his name, make and model year, tax paid and unpaid information, last
paid tax and mobile number. The block diagram of whole the process or algorithm
is given in Figure 9.
Figure 9. Block Diagram.
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A hardware is designed as prototype to show whole the process. A web cam is used
for capturing the image of number plate and one module of GSM kit is also tted
into the prototype. This is shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10. Hardware.
5. CONCLUSION
The Software VNPR needs the accuracy of the data and this may be dicult at a
hectic road to go through whole the process starting from capturing the image of
number plate, access the data base and send SMS to the cell phone. Eorts have
been made by many researchers to solve this ambiguous problem. An automatic
vehicle number plate recognition method is used to get the better results. Various
studies conclude that the image processing is the best way to substitute the manual
systems. Application of the technology to address the tax collection in Sindh excise
and taxation department may generate the revenue and ultimately improve the
economy of the province.
6. AKNOWLEDGEMENT
Authors are thankful to the higher authorities and Department of Electronic
Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan,
for providing workspace and necessary facilities to complete this research work.
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