Design of RFID based smart rationing system

Food and Public Distribution department, Government of India, National Food Security issues a ration card to all eligible households comes under economically weaker section to get the daily need groceries like rice, sugar etc. at very subsidized rate. It also serves as an official identification system. Due to this conventional system of ration distribution, lot of misusage and corruption may take place and hence to address this, a two level authentication based smart ration card system using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and IoT is developed. At ration store, for user authentication, smart card will be scanned over RFID reader, through microcontroller connected to server’s database. To add second level security, One Time Password (OTP) will be sent to registered mobile number and is to be entered in the system. If OTP matches, user founds to be authentic and monthly ration quota of that user will be displayed and will be dole out. The database will be updated once the transaction is successful. Through this mechanism, government can monitor or observe the delivered ration and rationer also can check his status in the portal.