IJARCCE ISSN (Online) 2278-1021 ISSN (Print) 2319 5940 International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering ISO 3297:2007 Certified Vol. 6, Issue 4, April 2017 Copyright to IJARCCE DOI10.17148/IJARCCE.2017.64128 672 Survey on Penalty Charging Systems for Indian Number-plates N G Bhojane 1 , G G Chiddarwar 2 , Gaurav Bhavalkar 3 , Aditya Bhatia 4 , Apurv Yadav 5 , Ajinkya Thakare 6 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune, India, 1,2 Student, Department of Computer Engineering, Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune, India 3,4,5,6 Abstract: In our daily life, we come across many problems caused due to traffic rule violation by some people. M- governance is a sub-domain of e-governance. Electronic services are made available to people because of m- governance, with help of mobile phones. Mobile services are cheap and easily accessible in rural areas of India as well. This project strives towards improving the traffic discipline by proposing advanced technological solutions. In this project, we are designing a system which will help the traffic police officer to penalize the vehicle driver for violation of traffic rules. The penalty will be imposed to the vehicle owner if the PUC of the vehicle has expired, if the car is standing on a zebra crossing, for illegal signal crossing, crossing the prescribed speed limit and parking the car in no parking zone. The traffic police officer will have to click a picture of the vehicle number plate and select the type of complaint. A complaint will be registered against the vehicle owner and he/she will be informed about the complaint details via SMS service. The vehicle owner will be required to pay his/her fines within a stipulated time period. Keywords: Android Based, m-governance, ANPR, Penalty System, Traffic Police, Law Enforcement. I. INTRODUCTION In the past few years, traffic congestion has increased enormously. Though the vehicle volume has increased exponentially, the road infrastructure is not yet up to the mark. This in turn leads to increased traffic congestion and road accidents. The Delhi Traffic Police's data for the year 2014 (till March ’15) given below, reveals that most of the guilty drivers are violating traffic rules as they aren't much bothered about the paltry fines and negligible punishment. In an attempt to reduce the problems related to traffic and improve the traffic discipline, advanced technological solutions have been proposed in this paper. The first stage would be the registration of vehicles in a database stored and maintained at the RTO server. The details include vehicle information such as vehicle number, vehicle model and colour as well as the owner information such as owner name, email id, mobile number, Driving license number etc. This database will also maintain the complaints registered against various vehicle owners and the fines to be paid by them and if paid then make the necessary change. The second stage is the traffic police registration and login. Each traffic police officer will require to register using credentials such as his/her name, email id, jurisdiction. They will then be given a username and password to login into the application to ensure authorized use/security. Once logged in the traffic police will have the options of registering a complaint or checking the payment status and clearing/accepting a payment of a vehicle owner. To register a complaint, the traffic police officer will have to click a picture of the vehicle number plate from his camera and specify the type of complaint from the given options. The