Automatic driver license verification and road access system.

Abstract

Documents of many types are susceptible to tampering, alteration and counterfeiting, hence those of great importance require verification. Among these are national identity cards, voter’s cards, ATM cards, driver license among others. The focus in this study is the driver’s license which is defined as an official document permitting a specific individual to operate one or more types of motorized vehicles, such as a motorcycle, car, truck, or bus on public roads. There are various verification methods for documents but most of these do not verify driver licenses. Currently, Uganda Police has to deploy traffic officers on roads, who put check points where the police officer stops the moving vehicle using his/her hand, requests for the driver’s license which he/she manually looks at checking for the expiry date, holder’s name which he/she confirms by asking the driver and finally at times compares the face. This method is tedious, inaccurate (susceptible to errors), requires more traffic officers to be deployed to do the work and is corruptible. Despite the various improvements in this method like heavy traffic police deployment, the challenges still prevail, therefore, the implementation of an automatic driver’s license verification and access system will be handy in dealing with the challenges at hand. The main objective of this project is to design and develop a system that will perform automatic verification of driver’s license and allow access to roads that will be used by Uganda police since the current method being used in verification has challenges which this developed project can deal with.