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System and method to monitor vehicles on a roadway and to control driving restrictions of vehicle drivers

  • US 9,076,331 B2
  • Filed: 07/16/2007
  • Issued: 07/07/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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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;

    receive and process said re-transmitted information from said roadside repeater station to generate statistical data corresponding to operation of the first vehicle by a driver of the first vehicle; and

    modify at least one driving restriction of the driver, stored in the database, based on the statistical data, wherein the at least one driving restriction includes at least one of a time of day the driver is allowed to drive, driving lanes the driver is allowed to drive in, a maximum speed the driver is allowed to drive, and a type of vehicle the driver is allowed to drive.

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