E-Ration card management system using RFID

ABSTRACT
This project paper explains that, we have developed a smart ration card the usage of Radio
Frequency identity (RFID) method to save you the ration forgery as there are probabilities that the
shopkeeper may additionally promote the cloth to a person else and take the profit and put a few
false amount of their statistics. In this device, a RFID tag is used that includes the member of the
family information and the consumer desires to show this tag to the RFID reader. The
microcontroller related to the reader will tests for the user authentication. If the user is found real
then the quantity of ration to take delivery of to the purchaser in keeping with the total quantity of
own family members might be displayed on show device. This smart ration card is free from theft
as the statistics approximately the delivered ration may be ship at once to the authorities without
guide feeding the use of international device for cellular communication (GSM) technique.
I. INTRODUCTION
India’s Public Distribution machine (PDS) is the largest retail device in the international
Public distribution machine affords a ration card issued beneath an order or authority of the nation
government for the purchase of critical consumer materials like rice, wheat, kerosene and oil.
Nation authority’s troubles exclusive ration cards like yellow ration card, saffron ration card, and
white ration card relying on family annual profits. The customer cloth is provided to ration card
holders within the first week of every month by way of ration shopkeeper. Public Distribution
machine is one of the widely debatable troubles that involve malpractice. The guide intervention
in weighing of the substances ends in faulty measurements and/or it is able to happen, the ration
save owner illegally uses patron substances without earlier information of ration card holders. The
proposed machine aids to control malpractices which are Present in ration shop by means of
changing guide work with automatic system primarily based on RFID and GSM. Every purchaser
i.e. circles of relative’s head furnished RFID card which acts as ration card.
The RFID card has unique identity wide variety. The patron scans the cardboard on RFID reader
that's interfaced with microcontroller kept at ration shop. As soon as client is tested via password,
the device asks the patron to pick appropriate material and amount of material thru keypad. Based
totally on cloth chosen by way of customer, suitable circuitry may be activated and customer
receives cloth. GSM interfaced with microcontroller sends statistics inside the shape of SMS to
related people.
Literature survey
India’s Public Distribution System (PDS) is the largest retail
system in the world. System of Public Distribution System provides a ration card issued under an
order or authority of the state government for the buy of essential consumer materials like Rice,
Wheat, Kerosene and Oil .State Government issues distinctive ration identity cards like Yellow
ration card, Saffron (Orange) ration card and White ration card depending on family annual
income. The consumer material is feeding to ration card holders in the first week of every month
by ration shop keeper. System of Public Distribution is one of the widely disputable issues that
involve malpractice. The manuscript intervention in weighing of the materials leads to incorrect
measurements and/or it may happen, the ration shop owner illegally uses consumer materials
(Rice, Wheat, Kerosene) without previously knowledge of ration cardholders.
People stand in long queues to get Kerosene at ration shop.
 Cardholders in rural areas complain that fuel is not supplied on time and in right quantities.
 In urban areas, Kerosene is supplied to ration cardholders in the first week of every month
and the ration shop keepers are taking keen steps to distribute Kerosene to cardholders a
minimum of three- or four-days week.
Ration Card Types:
 Yellow Card
 Below Poverty Line (BPL)
 Antyodya Anna Yojana (AAY).
 White Card
 Orange Card
In the existing system, tasks like product distribution, Ration card entry, product weighing and
delivery of the product are carried out manually by FPS (Fair providing service) agent. However,
a present system has diverse drawbacks involved, developing irregularities in the system. Some of
the irregularities include replacing actual products dispensed by the government with
measure quality product and supplying the same for the beneficiaries, diverting food grains to open
market to make profit, false entries in the stock registers that FPS agent needs to maintain and false
announcement of deceit in food grains.
The proposed system aids to power control malpractices which are present in ration shop by
superseding manual work with automatic system based on RFID. Every consumer i.e. family head
provided RFID radio frequency identification card which acts as ration identity card. The RFID
card has unique (rival)identification number. The consumer scans the card on RFID radio
frequency identification reader which is faced with microcontroller kept at ration shop. Once
consumer is validated by details, the system shows customer’s product and cost. Based on
material chosen by consumer, appropriate correct circuitry will be activated and consumer gets
material. The proposed RFID based automatic ration shop system would bring transparency
appropriate in public distribution system and Becomes aids helpful to prevent malpractices.
In present days most of people having their ration card. To buy the materials from the ration shop
first need to submit the ration card to the ration distribute. After verifying the information on card
that distributer gives the material according to requirement but as per the allotment by government.
They will put the sign on ration card depend on the material taken and will issues the material
through weighing system with the help of human but there are two drawbacks weight of materials
may be inaccurate due human mistakes and secondly if any card holder not buy the material end
of the month then shopkeeper sell to other and doing deception. The current public distribution
system involves corruptions and illegal activities of goods during manual ration distribution
process. This is one of the widely controversial issues that grip the wrong information about
utilization of material allotted for the card holder
K. Balakarthik presents an efficient method for the user to buy the products in the ration shop by
just flashing the card at the RFID reader at the ration store and the user can check their purchase
detail in a dedicated website. The paper proposed web site functionality by accepting requests from
the user’s browser and responds by sending back HTML documents (Web pages) and files.
Database creation and GUI design and provides the details of centralized management and
updating of database through web.
Rahul J. Jadhav, Dr. Pralhad, K. Mudalkar, the structure of e-PDS system, software requirements
and implementation is mentioned in the paper and it proposed to create different database table as
well as GUL including different login pages. It also defines the role of administrator as well as
ration distributors.

II. EXISTING SYSTEM

The general public having a ration card to shop for the substances from the ration shops.
While get the fabric from the ratio store, first need to publish the ration card and they may put the
signal within the ratio card relies upon at the substances. Then they will difficulty the substances
thru weighting system with assist of human. There may be chance to promote the fabric to
unauthorized character without intimation to owner. On every occasion an unauthorized person
attempts to use the ration card then concurrently get alert to unique character thru GSM. Based on
RFID generation it's far used to offer safety for authorizes character i.e. family members however
in this device massive quantity of statistics storage isn't always applicable.
Disadvantages
 More waiting times
 Paper work
 Corruption
 Not serving for the perfect consumers

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

Now a day ration card is very important for every home and used for various subject which
include family members info, to get gasoline connection, it act as deal with evidence for various
functions etc. all of the human beings having a ration card to buy the numerous substances (sugar,
rice, oil, kerosene, etc.) from the ration shops. The drawback with this RFID generation is the
outside memory requirement for garage and also complexity even as referring or exporting the
information from outside reminiscence chips. To overcome the drawbacks with the existed RFID
era, we're featuring a new machine with clever card technology. The clever card is likewise looking
as if RFID tag, except the no physical contact with the reader module. The smart card reader is
having the inner reminiscence in it. Subsequently it is simple to keep extra information of
corresponding circle of relative’s participants and also getting alertness via GSM on every
occasion unauthorized man or woman trying to get admission to the card.

ADVANTAGES
 Useful in providing transparency to both government and customer.
 Reduce paper work.
 User friendly.
 Reduce corruption.
 Access to authorized person only.
 Active contribution step towards Digital India
IV. System architecture
The Ration Shop cannot able to meet the requirement of the user due to over population of
our country, so the processing speed is low. As a result, there is always crowd of people in the
ration shop. Also, there is a chance for the illegal usage of our product in the regular system, i.e.
the materials are robbed by making wrong entries in the register without this insight of the ration
card holder. Doe to that large amount of money given by government gets wasted. Hijacking is the
main problem in the user ration card. Hence, we have developing a smart ration card system using
RFID & Embedded System. In this system, the user profile will contain the information about their
family members, the materials which are available and has been received and their price list will
also be displayed. By using this they can buy their stuff in their corresponding ration shop. The
ration shop admin will upload the details which has been delivered to the respective user as shown
in the Fig.4.1. Block diagram.
Using this customer able to following steps:
 Swap RFID Reader
 Get information from database
 OTP Generation
 OTP verification
 See allotment of Gains
 Get Ration (Food)
In this every customer is provided the RFID reader. Each FID reader has its own unique id. Once
the RFID reader is swapped by customer. It will ask for the customer user id and OTP (will
generated automatically) given by the state government. If customer successfully login then he/she
can enter the material whatever he/she wants with the help of keypad. After successful entered
material all the data is stored in to the database
V.HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RECUIREMENT

Hardware Requirement:

1. LPC2148 Microcontroller
2. Load cell sensors
3. Actuator
4. RAM (2 GB)
5. 100 GB (Hard Disk)2.

Software Requirement:

1. Language: JAVA
2. Scripting Language: JAVA Script
3. Database: My-Sql

Modules
1. Login module
2. Purchase module
3. Alert module
4. Stock module
5. RFID card verification module

I. Login Module:
The concept of a user id and password is a cost effective and efficient method of maintaining a
shared between a user and a computer system. In this module, the system registers beneficiaries’
details that includes their name, address, date of birth, age, contact number, count of family
members and category of the card to which the family belong, with all the information being
uploaded in the database
II. Purchase Module:
We are atomizing the distribution system at the ration shop as well as we are maintaining the
database at one main control station and updating the database so that the shopkeeper does not
cheat the poor people. User have to enter the amount of Kg. he wants to withdraw. System checks
his account. If the user will have sufficient balance to withdraw the current amount. Once
authenticated, the beneficiary should select the list of commodities he/she wishes to purchase. The
system displays the total quantity of the commodities and also the amount of quantity a beneficiary
is permitted to buy. Once after he/she confirms the commodities, payment is done and beneficiaries
are given a receipt in form of a SMS. A beneficiary is permitted to take only those subsidies on
products appropriated to him/her by government according to the available database inventory.

III. Alert Module:

Direct interconnection with Mobile Network Operators (MNO) is a very high cost approach due
to the high charges imposed by the MNOs. A GSM gateway provides mobile voice and SMS
connectivity to the mobile carrier’s GSM network. A SMA gateway API serves the purpose of
sending bulk messages to its users; here in this project it plays a role for intimating the beneficiary
about the recent transaction made by him/her by sending him/her the message on his/her registered
number.

IV. Stock Module:

In this system they are storing the grains in the tank, and when the ration is inserted into the shop
then that quantity is updated in the web server. The food department will send the stock to the
respective distribution centers and also automatically update the stocks of the respective
distribution center in the database. In this module the system maintains the detail of incoming
stock, distribution and remaining stock.

V. RFID Card Verification Module:

RFID based Smart Card verification module consists of two prime components, they are
interrogator and transponder. The interrogator (RFID reader) is needed to broadcast the signals
through its antenna and the transponder (tag) will be activated after it receives the signals from the
interrogator

3.1 LPC2148 Microcontroller

The LPC2148 microcontroller board based totally on a 16-bit/32-bit ARM7TDMI-S CPU with
actual-time emulation, 16-bit/32-bit ARM7TDMI-S microcontroller in a tiny LQFP64 package
deal, 8 kb to 40 kb of on chip static RAM and 32 kb to 512 kb of on-chip flash memory; 128-bit
large interface/accelerator allows excessive-pace 60 MHz operation, In- tool Programming (ISP),
single 10-bit DAC offers variable analogue output, 32-bit timers/outdoor event counters (with four
capture and 4 have a have a look at channels every), PWM unit (six outputs) and watchdog, Low
energy real-Time Clock (RTC), multiple serial interfaces which includes UARTs , speedy I2C-bus
(400kbit/s), SPI and SSP with buffering and variable statistics period capabilities.

3.2 GSM-Module
GSM (international device for cellular communications) is a cell network, which means
that that cell telephones connect with it via way of searching for cells in the immediately place.
GSM networks feature in four specific frequency levels. Maximum GSM networks feature within
the 900 MHz or 1800 MHz bands. A few international locations in the Americas use the 850 MHz
and 1900 MHz bands because the 900 and 1800 MHz frequency bands had been already
allotted.The rarer 4 hundred and 450 MHz frequency bands are assigned in a few worldwide
places, wherein those frequencies were previously used for first-era structures.
3.3 RFID
We have the two types of RFID reader active and passive. In the RFID reader we have the one
magnet, in the RFID reader also have the one magnet , whenever we place the card on the reader
the magnetic flux will be generate and card number will be read by the reader. We are using the 5
v power supply. the RFID have the two types one is active and another one is passive. For the
active one we have the sometime limit , so we need to complete the work within the time only ,
but in case passive reader we can don’t have any time limit we can use the long. This is used for
the security purpose in the banks , offices and other security places.
3.4 RFID Tags
The RFID cards are two types active and passive . the rf tags contains the one number which is
there inside the card we can’t visible that card number, and it will have one magnetic coil in the
card when we place the tag on the reader it will generates a magnetic flux and reads the card
number. This card will with the owner and the reader with that particular application. This is used
for the security purpose.

3.5 Software
To finish the undertaking on equipment need to installed programming on to the controller utilized
as a part of this venture for that reason we need programming's similar to Kiel u vision and glimmer
enchantment those are examined in given beneathCode are frequently adjusted and accumulated
on a brisk host machine, (for example, a tablet or working framework workstation) and in this way
the resulting feasible code will then be downloaded to the objective to be tried. Cross compilers
square measure helpful at whatever point the host machine has a ton of assets (memory, circle, I/O
and so on) than the objective. Kiel compiler is one such compiler that backings a gigantic
assortment of host and target blends. With this project you'll have the capacity to delete individual
squares or the entire nonvolatile stockpiling of the microcontroller.
IV. WORKING PROCEDURE
Every customer is supplied with a RFID card which is registered by the authority’s
authority. On the time of ration distribution at ration keep, first password of patron is proven. User
id established with the database supplied through the government authority that is stored inside the
microcontroller. As soon as verification is a hit, purchaser is requested for a select sort of cloth
and amount required thru push buttons and keypad respectively. Primarily based on sort of fabric
chosen, the motor or solenoid valve is activated. The load cellular or degree indicator is checked
for correct quantity. After collecting proper quantity cloth motor or solenoid is disabled. GSM
module will ship the facts in shape of SMS to the user in addition to PDS authority. Current stock
within the ration keep is displayed using lcd.
The automatic Ration materials Distribution primarily based on GSM and RFID generation
used to distribute or vend the liquid or stable material that is used for Ration materials distribution
in ration stores. Initially everybody may be provided an RFID or smart Card, as opposed to a ration
card. If the client needs to get any ration material, the consumer has to show the ration RFID tag
card to the RFID reader package, the reader that is integrated with the mission kit will understand
the RFID numbers show with the aid of the consumer. Every consumer could have a completely
unique range, which is not seen to the user. This identified RFID number could be given to a
microcontroller, which compared the input range with the database. earlier than starting the
system, the specific RFID range of the ration person might be programmed in the controller, such
as consumer call & cope with details, date of expire of ration card, etc., in order that the controller
will apprehend the statistics coming from RFID by comparing with the database. Once the person
is diagnosed, the microcontroller will test whether or not the consumer has already sold the ration
object belongs to that month. If no longer then, ration objects to be disbursed might be displayed
on the liquid crystal display screen, the person has to feed the remarks that which ration object he
goes to buy. If the user, pick out the ration item for purchasing functions then the controller will
calculate the quantity of his or her buy and take a look at with the quantity available inside the
RFID card. If she or he has sufficient amount to shop for then the micro controller will start the
solenoid and motor mechanism to dispense the chosen ration object. As the dispensing procedure
goes on concurrently in the controller will ship a command to GSM Modem, to ship the textual
content SMS to the consumer about the ration item, she or he bought. Before beginning the method
the quantity of the object to be distributed has to be calibrated one at a time then the most effective
controller will dispense the right quantity of ration object decided on.
V. RESULT
The project “Design of electronic ration card system using RFID with SMS facility” was
successfully completed and output verified on the hard ware. Whenever the person takes the ration
the message will sent to the government officers. With this project we can easily find out the how
much ration used.
VI. CONCLUSION
The traditional gadget has drawbacks like malpractices, low processing speed, lengthy ready time
at ration keep to get fabric and fabric robbery in ration keep with none acknowledgement to
government and patron. To triumph over above troubles, automated ration save played critical
function. The automatic ration save concerned RFID in addition to GSM generation to distribute
the kerosene or grain material. Ration card is replaced with the aid of RFID and data is dispatched
to customer the use of GSM module. The proposed device creates the transparency in public
distribution device as the paintings will become computerized. With the assist of this machine, it's
far possible to make public distribution system green and free from malpractices. The proposed
machine has blessings like it's miles helpful to prevent malpractices at ration shop, maintain
information well, reduces paper work, time saving approach and cost powerful.
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