The Cayman Islands is already using Tonnjes’ IDePlate and IDeStix technology to link vehicles and plates, locate vehicles of interest, and confirm the identities of vehicles on public roads.
Mar 02, 2018—
Vehicle license plates with embedded ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tags are being deployed in Honduras and the Cayman Islands. The plates will help the two countries to identify vehicles and, in some cases, track their movements on highways and other roads. In addition, the Philippines Ministry of Transport this week commissioned the same system for all of its vehicles.
The IDePlate, provided by Tönnjes E.A.S.T., is an aluminum license plate with an NXP Semiconductors UCODE DNA chip embedded by Tönnjes. The company also makes and sells an IDeSTIX adhesive RFID windshield sticker, which leverages the same UCODE DNA chip. The IDeSTIX uniquely identifies the vehicle itself, and can be paired with the IDePlate to detect whether a license plate has been fraudulently attached.
In 2014, the technology was tested during a field trial at the Dutch Ministry of Defense’s Driving Education and Training Facility in Oirschot (see Tönnjes, Kirpestein and NXP Complete Yearlong Vehicular ID Field Trial). Since then, it has been deployed in Honduras, where tags are being attached to new vehicle plates as part of a two-year rollout. The system is already in use in the Cayman Islands, with pilots currently under way in Russia and Turkey.