Pay as You Go: A Generic Crypto Tolling Architecture
This addresses the problem of efficient and secure tolling for vehicular communication systems, though it appears incremental as it combines existing technologies in a new application.
The paper tackles the challenge of electronic toll payment by proposing a novel architecture that uses 5G C-V2X connectivity, IOTA digital currency, and Hyperledger Indy for identity validation, with an experimental feasibility analysis validating it for secure, private, and convenient tolling.
The imminent pervasive adoption of vehicular communication, based on dedicated short-range technology (ETSI ITS G5 or IEEE WAVE), 5G, or both, will foster a richer service ecosystem for vehicular applications. The appearance of new cryptography based solutions envisaging digital identity and currency exchange are set to stem new approaches for existing and future challenges. This paper presents a novel tolling architecture that harnesses the availability of 5G C-V2X connectivity for open road tolling using smartphones, IOTA as the digital currency and Hyperledger Indy for identity validation. An experimental feasibility analysis is used to validate the proposed architecture for secure, private and convenient electronic toll payment.