Government has decided to adopt passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based on EPC, Gen-2, ISO 18000-6C Standards technology for Electronic Fee Collection (EFC) system for seamless movement on National Highways. The interoperable EFC system has been installed and working on one lane in each direction on the following National Highways stretches:
- Delhi-Mumbai
- Delhi-Chandigarh
- Bangalore-Chennai
About  Electronic Fee Collection (EFC) system
In many countries electronic road tolling systems are being used but, although many of them use similar technologies, few of them are compatible at present. This leads to inefficiencies in the operation of such systems and frustration among drivers.
To address such issues in Europe, the European Commission has published a Directive on Electronic Fee Collection, which emphasizes the need for interoperability of systems. The Directive proposes to introduce the European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) that makes it mandatory for fee collection systems to use one or more of the following technologies:
1. Satellite positioning
2. Mobile communications using the GSM and GPRS standards
3. 5.8 GHz microwave technologies (DSRC).
What is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ?
RFID stands for Radio-Frequency IDentification. The acronym refers to small electronic devices that consist of a small chip and an antenna. The chip typically is capable of carrying 2,000 bytes of data or less.
The RFID device serves the same purpose as a bar code or a magnetic strip on the back of a credit card or ATM card; it provides a unique identifier for that object. And, just as a bar code or magnetic strip must be scanned to get the information, the RFID device must be scanned to retrieve the identifying information.