The State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the National Standardization Administration approved the issuance of six national recommended standards for motor vehicle electronic identification, which was officially implemented on July 1, 2018. The new regulations stipulate that all new motor vehicles in 2018 are required to leave a microwave window for the electronic license plate at the position of the front windshield.
What is an electronic license plate?It is equipped with a radio frequency identification (RFID) electronic license plate label on the motor vehicle, and the vehicle and the owner's related information is entered into the label. When passing the road with the authorized RFID reader, the electronic will be on demand. The data on the label is collected. Simply put, an electronic license plate is equivalent to a person's "second-generation ID card", which allows the motor vehicle to have legal identity information and has the function of "machine-readable + video-reading".
As an important entrance for intelligent transportation, the electronic identification system will effectively alleviate traffic congestion and improve the traffic environment. It is an important direction for Internet of Things applications.
Legislation enforcement, the release of the six standards means the advent of the era of automotive electronic identification
Based on RF RFID technology, the electronic license plate has a very successful management experience of 100,000 high-speed vehicles in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore. Although as early as 2013, the Ministry of Public Security of China signed an agreement with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to promote the application of RFID in the field of public safety, and carried out a demonstration application in Wuxi in early 2015. However, due to the long-term non-mandatory regulations, car owners have privacy issues. Subjective installation intentions are not strong, resulting in little effect on popularization. Until December 29 last year, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the National Standardization Administration approved the release of six national recommended standards for motor vehicle electronic identification (see Table 1), which stipulated that 2018 new factory vehicles should be in the front. The windshield does not affect the position of the driving field to reserve a microwave window to ensure the installation and reading of the car's electronic logo. This standard was officially implemented on July 1, 2018.
Table 1. Electronic license plate related policies
The mandatory standard regulations have contributed to the huge market scale of the electronic license plate industry in the future, and also provided an effective solution for the Internet of Vehicles, which means that China's intelligent transportation has officially entered the transition start-up period. As the basis of intelligent transportation, the electronic license plate market has a very broad prospect. In 2017, China's car ownership reached 217 million vehicles, an increase of 11.85% compared with 2016. VehicleTrend is expected to reach 246 million vehicles in 2018, with a growth rate of 13.5%. If all are replaced with electronic license plates, we will follow the pilot in Chongqing. The unit price of the electronic license plate provided by the project is calculated at 47 yuan, and the market size is expected to reach 12 billion yuan. This is just an electronic license plate. If a series of supporting links such as reading equipment, related installation engineering, and network service system are added, the market scale is huge.
At present, electronic license plates contain less information, but there is potential for growth.
At present, the electronic logo promoted in China is only used to “identify the identity of motor vehiclesâ€, and the amount of information stored therein is small (only the license plate number, model, owner information, etc.), and the purpose is more convenient for the vehicle management office. Management and collection of certain fees (such as the upcoming "congestion fee"). However, in combination with the cooperation layout of various enterprises and governments around electronic identification in recent years (see Table 2), the foreseeable trend is that the functions of future automotive electronic license plates will be gradually enriched, for example, to achieve precise positioning of themselves and other vehicles, Exchange of information with the car (such as steering, braking, etc.) to provide effective information to the control layer and help them make driving decisions. Therefore, we believe that in the early days of the popularization of electronic license plates, it is necessary to gradually improve the functions of the Internet of Vehicles, and the intelligent electronic license plates in the future will become an indispensable part of autonomous vehicles.
Table 2. List of domestic electronic identification companies in recent years
1. In the era of Internet of Vehicles, intelligent electronic license plates have effectively improved the digital perception of autonomous vehicles and accelerated the realization of automatic driving on specific roads:
At present, the mainstream autopilot solution is based on sensors based on radar and camera, and realizes the traditional bicycle artificial intelligence method. However, the artificial intelligence perception of bicycles requires a very high success rate to get on the road. After that, Tesla's Autopilo caused a car accident because of the perceived problem. In the era of car networking, V2V is the foundation. Intelligent electronic license plates can transmit information to intelligent sensing modules through communication, positioning and other types of sensors, detecting the environment in which vehicles are located, and exchanging data information between vehicles and vehicles. To make effective driving decisions, but correspondingly, this communication technology is extremely demanding. We believe that intelligent electronic license plates will take the lead in helping cars to achieve automatic driving on specific non-pedestrian roads such as highways.
2. Intelligent electronic license plates reduce the R&D burden of OEMs:
As one of the important roles of the future Internet of Things, automakers have taken on the pressure to develop effective communication between cars and cars. However, through intelligent electronic identification, car companies can focus on this part of the task of focusing on electronic identification companies, so that more research and development energy is invested in the control and execution of the entire vehicle.
The other side of the coin: the cybersecurity risk brought by intelligent electronic license plates
The traditional car system is relatively closed, and it is very difficult to attack from the outside. However, with the gradual networking of the car, hacking has become a serious potential problem. Although the electronic license plate is only one of the automatic driving, it still bears the responsibility of protecting the safety of the car network. Therefore, for electronic signage companies and network operators, it is crucial to protect the networked car from three aspects (A terminal, transmission process, B terminal) if it ensures that the intelligent license plate has strong network security standards. Information security is not compromised, and there is a need to update these standards, as in the future, as autopilots become longer, companies must be able to plan for future changes to deal with unforeseen threats.
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