New Way To Prevent Thefts From Stealing Vehicle Number Plates In India

Researchers of La Trobe University, Australia are testing new technologies which can improve the ability to identify vehicles, as well as prevent number plates from being stolen or misused.

New technologies are expected to bring efficient solutions against number plate thefts.

One of these technologies under test is a kind of sticker called Radio Frequency Identification (or RFID for short) that is put on the front windscreen of vehicles. The sticker can be considered as another number plate, except for the two traditional ones.

When someone removes the sticker out of the front windscreen, it will destruct itself, and therefore, police can detect allegedly stolen vehicles or ones with fake number plates.

The next technology’s name is Dedicated Short Range Communications or DSRC which can interact with the infrastructure on streets. The digital product is designed to recognize automated vehicles.

In addition, the researchers are also testing many other security features relating to vehicle number plates, such as holographic patterns on passports and licences of drivers.

With these advanced identification methods, vehicle thefts must have a lot of difficulties in hiding a vehicle’ identity or using cloned number plates.

The target the researchers are conducting these trials aims to check the applicability of the technologies in reality, as well as how they plan to combine them with the current systems like Automatic Number Plate Recognition that are deployed by police.

In some cases, cloned and stolen number plates are the best choices for thefts to cover vehicles’ identities. For example, when someone commits one of the following crimes: toll evasion, ram raids, and petrol drive-offs.