Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F13/00—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs
  • G07F13/02—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs by volume
  • G07F13/025—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs by volume wherein the volume is determined during delivery
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
  • G06Q20/30—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks
  • G06Q20/32—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks using wireless devices
  • G06Q20/327—Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices
  • G06Q20/3278—RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
  • G06Q20/30—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks
  • G06Q20/34—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
  • G06Q20/352—Contactless payments by cards

Definitions

• the field of application of the present invention relates to the "electronic payment" of the refueling at a service station.
• the payer Given a payment, the payer will see updated a register, associated to him, which expresses his own spending capacity, and this spending capacity will be reduced by the amount corresponding to the amount to be paid. Simultaneously, the paid subject will see updated a register, associated to him, which expresses his own spending capacity, and this spending capacity will be increased by the amount corresponding to the received payment.
• the cash can be protected in a physical way, such as by using a safe for safekeeping, or using services of "valuable transfer" performed by properly trained and equipped personnel.
• an electronic transaction to be finalized, may require the insertion by the payer of a secret code that only the payer knows.
• the transaction may require, for the execution of the programs which update the registers, the use of a specific hardware, a so-called hardware key, so as to limit the opportunity of finalizing an electronic transaction only to those individuals who are in possession of said hardware key.
• Typical examples of "electronic payments” are those that are made by credit card or debit card, or order forms of payment made through the access to suitable sites reachable via the Internet. We often refer to this last type of transaction with the terms “online banking "or” Internet banking “. Recently, there are rapidly spreading the so- called “mobile payments”, meaning by this expression a family that includes several types of payment: in general they are known forms of payment (e.g. credit card transaction or an "on-line banking” operation), but they have the peculiarity that the transaction is arranged through an application executed by a mobile terminal.
• mobile payments are particularly interesting for various reasons.
• the mobile terminal is already a device connected in a telecommunications network, and therefore the payment can take place at any place, and it is not necessary to perform it in front to a specific device, such as occurs in the case of payment by credit card.
• mobile terminals are devices perceived by the user as personal items. We can assume that each user always takes his own mobile terminal with him. And this fact also causes a perception of security, since the user may at any time check to be in possession of his terminal (which can also be defined as the only hardware device enabled to make payments, thus acting as a hardware key) and he can be reasonably comfortable knowing that there are no others who can make payments on its accounts without his knowledge.
• SIM Subscriber Identification Module
• An ideal refueling procedure in "self-service" should be designed as an operation in which the user approaches a dispenser communicates with a gesture as simple as possible the intention to refuel, supplies his vehicle, dates back in the vehicle and leave the station. Actually, there are no service stations in which it is possible to obtain a refuel in such a way. However, it is obvious that the more one manages to approximate a process of this type, and the more one approaches an ideal refueling service.
• a further scope of the present invention is to indicate a system that can be compatible with the safety standards relating to the use of electronic devices in the vicinity of fuel dispensers.
• Another scope of the present invention is that of indicating an electronic payment method of the fuel at a refueling station that is sufficiently secure against attempts of fraud and robust with respect to possible errors, which may occur in payment transactions.
• an electronic payment system of fuel at a service station in which is provided a telecommunications network that allows local communication between apparatuses distributed in said service station, among which there is at least a fuel dispenser, and at least one central computer which runs a management program of the station, and said payment system of fuel also includes:
• S at least one terminal available to said user who intends to make a refueling at said service station, and in said terminal it is installed at least one application for supporting a process of refueling with electronic payment, and said at least one application is started by the reception of at least one short-range radio signal of predefined format and containing a preset message, which allows unambiguous identification of said emitting device of said short-range radio signal
• computing means associated with said service station, and on said computing means it is installed at least one application which is started by a command generated by said application for supporting a process of refueling that is installed on said terminal available to said user, and said application which runs on said computing means uses as an input at least the information identifying said user who has communicated his intention to make a refueling;
• the main advantage of the system articulated according to the present invention is in the fact that it allows to fulfill all the purposes for which it was conceived.
• Figure 1 shows a block diagram that summarizes a system for electronic payment of fuel according to the present invention
• FIG. 2 shows a simplified schematization of a communication protocol functional to the implementation of the present invention.
• the number 102 in Figure 1 represents an emitting device of a predefined short- range radio signal.
• Said emitting device 102 is designed to be as simple and economical as possible, and it has the sole function of generating a signal able to activate an application which is installed into another apparatus.
• Bluetooth includes the definition of a signal known under the name "eBeacon”; said “eBeacon” signal presents the characteristics necessary to support the inventive principles of the present invention.
• Said default short-range radio signal is then transmitted to a device on a specific dedicated radio channel that in Figure 1 is indicated with the number 210.
• the number 200 in Figure 1 then represents a device arranged to receive on said radio channel 210. Therefore, when said signal, activated by a user through the emitting device 102 that is a personal device, (e.g. a signal "eBeacon”) is transmitted on said radio channel 210, said signal is received and interpreted by said device 200 by means of an application, denoted in Figure 1 by the reference number 240.
• a signal e.g. a signal "eBeacon”
• the presence of a standardization to support a radio technology suited for the practical realization of the present invention is a factor in favor of the spread of the present invention.
• the device 200 which must be suitable to receive the radio channel 210, in the case of wide dissemination of the standard, could be a device already spread among the general users of mobile telecommunications services.
• the "Bluetooth” technology and, more precisely, the standard that defines the characteristics of said "eBeacon” signal is predictably a technology that will be present in almost all of the future mobile terminals.
• the device 200 which must be a device for use by the customer during refueling operations, could coincide with the personal radio mobile terminal of the customer; and, in such case, the application 240 would be one of the various applications installed in the personal radio mobile terminal of the customer.
• both the event in which the device 200 is a personal terminal of the customer, and the event in which said device 200 is a device belonging to the infrastructure of the service station, which is temporarily used by the customer just to support a payment process of the fuel supplied, are two possible embodiment variants of the same inventive principle.
• the system taught in the present invention is based on the fact that an application for supporting a refueling executes a process personally associated to a particular user uniquely identifiable (who, among other things, must be charged the cost for fuel stocked). It matters little, for the purpose of implementation of the inventive concepts, if such device 200 is permanently for the exclusive use of the customer or if it is temporarily associated to the user just limited to the time required to support his refueling operations. Said identification of the user who is performing the refueling is made possible since the application 240 is activated by a signal, generated by said emitting device 102 that is strictly personal, transmitted on channel 210, and containing an identification code unique for each user.
• the involvement of a personal hardware device such as the emitting device 102 is an important factor for identifying the user. However, it is important to observe how, in addition to an identification based on said emitting device 102, other authentication methods can be implemented too. These are made possible in the context of the system provided in the present invention; but such alternatives, which allow to make the identification more sure, will be exhibited in a following part of the present description.
• the number 300 of Figure 1 indicates processing means that, in the preferred implementations of the system taught in the present invention, are located in the same service station. And the function of said processing means 300 is to perform some operations essential to the process of refueling of a vehicle and to the related payment of replenished fuel. Among said operations are included the following ones:
• the number 400 in Figure 1 indicates the management system of the service station.
• the service stations for refueling are managed by means of a management system that allows to control all the devices of the station: said management systems of the station 400 thus constitute legacy systems with which it is essential to interface in order to interact with every other device of the station.
• the number 350 indicates a database. Said database 350 is shown in the figure because it contains information about users that are essential to run the operations performed by the processing means 300. Said database 350 may physically reside in the same hardware of the processing means 300, may be in a separate machine, but co-located with the processing means 300, or may be a remote database to which the processing means 300 can access.
• the management system of the service station 400 may include a user database, indicated in Figure 1 by the reference number 450.
• the management system of the station 400 should be considered a legacy element that typically is already present in each station. Therefore, it may be necessary to provide for an interaction between the processing means 300, which control the refueling of a user, and the management system 400 so as to allow the update also any other information eventually stored on other user databases such as, for example, the information about loyalty programs.
• the number 310 indicates a communication channel that allows the exchange of information between said device 200 and said processing means 300.
• While the number 410 indicates the communication channel between said processing means 300 and said management system of the station 400. Finally, the number 420, indicates a set of channels of communication between said management system of the station 400 and the set of devices 500 of the service station.
• the channel 310 could be implemented as a connection established on a public or private wireless network (e.g. a Wi-Fi LAN of the station, and the access by said user terminal could be allowed in a controlled mode under the management of the application 240).
• the channel 410 could be a physical cable connecting the processing means
• Figure 2 gives a representation of an essential part of a communication protocol between the various elements of the system according to the present invention; and said representation of Figure 2 allows to expose in greater detail the process of operation of the whole system and some of its variants.
• the numbers in brackets relate to the elements of the system that send and/or receive messages (the same elements of the system which have already been outlined in the illustration of Figure 1).
• the number 102 indicates the emitting device of the short-range radio signal, which can be received only by equipment placed in its vicinity.
• the number 200 indicates the device for use by a single user, on which is installed an application 240 activated by the reception of a predefined short-range radio signal.
• the number 300 indicates the processing means that oversee the fueling process and the fuels payment.
• the number 400 indicates the management system of the service station and the number 500 generally designates the set of the devices present in said service station.
• These functional blocks represent respectively the functional block for identification, authorization and fueling control (block 341) and the functional block for payment (block 342).
• the number 211 indicates the activation message transmitted by the emitting device 102 on the short-range radio channel 210.
• Said activation message 21 1 is predetermined and it is preconfigured in said emitting device 102, so that the user can generate it with a very simple action.
• a further important feature of said activation message 21 1 consists in that it contains a unique identifier that allows to identify the emitting device 102 and, consequently, the user to which said emitting device 102 is assigned.
• the emitting device can be designed so as to be very cheap, small and relatively simple.
• said emitting device 102 can be integrated in the most varied objects. For example, it can be integrated in the keychain for the key of a vehicle, or in the key itself; or it can be integrated into an OBU (On Board Unit) apparatus supplied to the vehicles to support electronic toll services; or it can be packaged so as to be attractively associated with a vehicle, for example by making a pendant hanging from the rearview mirror.
• OBU On Board Unit
• this emitting device can be designed with wide flexibility in order to be able to place it in such a way that a user who enters a service station driving a car can easily press a button and activate the transmission of the message 211. This can happen by a simple gesture and reaching said emitting device 102 which is to be found at hand.
• the generation of the message 211 may be the only operation which requires the interaction by the user. It is therefore a method of refueling extremely attractive since the user need only press a button present in an object that is at hand (a key chain, a pendant, the OBUs for the tele- toll etc ...) to activate a process of self-service refueling in which the payment takes place automatically.
• the reception of the message 21 1 by the device 200 allows it to work within the service station as a personal device associated to the user who has identified himself by transmitting the message 211. And it has to be remembered that an appropriate application 240 is installed on the device 200.
• the device 200 can either be a device owned by the user itself, and therefore the service station does not have to be provided with said device, or a device supplied to the user at the service station.
• the device 200 is a device included in the equipment of the service station.
• the device 200 is a radio mobile terminal of an individual, some specific variants are possible: they will be exposed separately, explicitly highlighting the fact that they are only applicable to such a case.
• the preferred implementation provides that said device 200 may be associated with each fuel dispenser; then the user must activate the message 21 1 when he is in the vicinity of a dispenser. This behavior is quite natural, as a person who arrives at a service station has to approach a dispenser to refuel.
• the user presses the appropriate button (as explained above), transmits the message 211, and with this gesture indicates that he intends to make a refueling.
• the device 200 due to the reception of the message 21 1 starts the execution of an application that generates a message, which in Figure 2 is indicated with the number 311, addressed to the processing means 300 which, as a consequence, begin to assume the control of the refueling operation.
• the message 311 contains at least the unique identifier of the user who generated the original message 211.
• the processing means 300 can execute a set of functions which in practice consists in the execution of a computer program,
• the reception of the message 31 1 implies that the processing means 300 have at least the information that a particular user (identified through the identification code assigned to his emitting device 102) is located within a service station and that he intends to make a refueling.
• a certainly effective check consists in authenticating the license plate of the vehicle that entered the service station.
• the processing means 300 by consulting the appropriate database of users authorized to the automatic payment of the refueling, have access to information, about the license plates, which must have been entered at the time of the service subscription.
• a particularly recommended embodiment of the system according to the present invention provides that the service station for refueling also includes a system of video coverage that allows the recognition of license plates of vehicles entering into the service station itself. And it possibly allow an identification of the location of the vehicle having the recognized license plate.
• the authentication operation performed by functional block 341 may thus include an analysis of a video recording, the automatic recognition of vehicle license plates in the station, and the detection of the presence of a license plate associated with the user identified.
• the processing means 300 forward an additional message, indicated with the number 41 1, to the management system of the station; said message 411 has the primary purpose to request the unlocking of the dispenser which the vehicle, having the recognized license plate, is closed to.
• the numbers 312 and 313 represent two other messages that can be exchanged between said processing means 300 and said device 200 for use by the user. Those messages are not strictly necessary in general, but they may be provided in the case in which the service station does not have a video coverage adequate to perform the automatic recognition of license plates, or in the case in which the device for use by user 200 is a personal radio mobile terminal.
• a further way to authenticate a user consists in asking him to entering a secret code (a password or PIN - Personal Identification Number).
• Said processing means 300 can transmit to the device 200 for use by the user a request of a confirmation code.
• the processing means 300 can transmit to said device 200 a request relating to the number of the dispenser on which the user wishes to refuel.
• these cases are typical, for example, if the message 21 1 is received by two devices 200 positioned on two neighboring dispensers, or in the case where the device 200 is a personal terminal and therefore it is not associable to a dispenser.
• the message 312 may be a message containing the request to an authentication code or the request to specify the dispenser to unlock, or a message containing both requests.
• the use of these two messages, and in particular of the message 313, is not recommended.
• an objective of the present invention is to minimize the operations required to the user, and it is highly recommendable not to require the users to make use of their own mobile terminals in a service area for the supply of fuel. It has to be remembered that in such places it is generally not allowed the use of mobile radio terminals (or battery equipped devices) outside the vehicle.
• the activation message 21 1 may be received simultaneously both by a device 200 which is part the station equipment and by a personal mobile radio terminal of the user.
• an application automatically launched on said radio mobile terminal of the user, may automatically generate a response message 313 containing an authentication code pre- configured on said application.
• Said mechanism would aim to increase the safety of the process as, although not requiring directed operations performed by the user, the refueling would be allowed only in the case in which the user is in possession of both the personal emitting device 102 and his personal terminal with a proper application installed.
• said application may eventually provide other advanced configurations able to further increase the security(e.g. inhibit the refueling at certain times, or inhibit the refueling via commands that can be sent from remote, etc.).
• the message 421, transmitted from the management system 400, contains at least the unlocking control of a dispenser, while the message 422, which is received by the management system 400, contains at least the information on the amount to charge for refueling.
• the elements 400 and 500 are elements already present in the service stations and therefore they represent a legacy constraint which should be modified the less is possible. This is why the message indicated by the number 412, for said processing means 300, just contains the read of the amount to be charged to the user; in this way a minimal interaction between the processing means 300 and the management system of station 400 is possible.
• the processing means 300 will supervise an "electronic transaction" to finalize the payment for the fuel replenished. It is clear that the processing means 300 know all the data which are necessary to finalize said payment. In fact they know the identity of the user (with the appropriate degree of authentication), the amount to be charged and, of course, they know the beneficiary: since this last is the same entity that manages the payments in the service station where the whole system is implemented.
• the numbers 413 and 415 indicate two other messages which are not strictly necessary (but very common and normally required for this kind of electronic payments).
• the message 413 is the request of a guarantee or of a "provisional security deposit” which limits the maximum fuel provision, and the message 415 gives feedback to the management system 400 that the "provisional security deposit” is bound to payment. This mechanism is typically implemented because it is a reliable caution for the manager about the capacity of payment of the user who is preparing to refuel his vehicle.
• the number 314 denotes a feedback message on the outcome of payment.
• Said message 314, in the protocol outlined in Figure 2, is intended for the device 200, however it can be forwarded also to other apparatuses in order to make effective the notification. For example, it can be transmitted to a radio mobile terminal of the user even if this is not used as the device for use by the user 200, or it can be transmitted to the management system of the station 400 in order to propose a visualization of said feedback on the panel of the dispenser or on other monitors eventually available, etc.
• the two most important substantial variations are: the use (or not) of the personal radio mobile terminal of the user as device 200 (essential for the way of functioning of whole the system), and the presence (or not) of a system of video coverage able to make the plate recognition of the vehicles, and to determine their position with respect to the dispensers of the service station.
• the device for use by the user 200 is part of the station equipment.
• it is a device that just listen on a radio channel 210 and must then run a very simple program; therefore it is certainly a simple and inexpensive device that does not compromise the economic sustainability of the overall system. This will "lighten” up to the user, he only needs, for accession to service, to adopt an emitting device 102 (which, as said, is also a simple and cheap object) to be kept on board the vehicle.
• the solution in which the device for use by user 200 is the personal radio mobile terminal of the user, seems advisable especially in the absence of a system of video coverage.
• the aid of the personal terminal of the user may be useful for implementing the procedures of authentication and to manage, via a human interaction, the selection of the dispenser to be used for replenishment.
• the main contraindication to the use of the personal mobile radio terminal of the user is the fact that it foresees that the user interacts with a device whose utilization is subject to severe restrictions at petrol stations: in particular, it is not permitted its use in outside of the vehicle.
• the device 200 coincides with the personal radio mobile terminal of the user, and on said radio mobile terminal 200 a suitable application 240 is installed to support the process of refueling with automatic payment.
• the device 200 must be equipped with a radio interface in reception, and it is able to receive messages on a short-range radio channel 210 having a predefined format.
• a first arrangement provides that at the entrance gates of the station some further emitting devices are installed, and they are capable of transmitting a short-range radio signal on said radio channel 210.
• Said further emitting devices are of the same type of the emitting device 102, but they transmit a different signal and they are not activated by user's will. Therefore, said further emitting devices transmit a first message, different from the message 211 previously described, that can be used to activate a different application.
• the purpose of which is to configure the settings of the terminal 200 in order to operate only inside the vehicle; in particular the application 240 should be capable of being activated and executed only if the terminal 200 is in specific conditions which ensure that it is located inside the vehicle.
• the terminal 200 is configured not to receive calls from the public network, b. the terminal 200 is configured to operate only if it is physically connected to the vehicle by a cable (e.g. only if it is powered by the vehicle),
• the terminal 200 is configured to work only in “hands-free” and using just voice commands.
• point "c.” seems particularly interesting in that it constitutes a particularly attractive profile in user perspective.
• a driver while a driver is driving, he should use his terminal in "hands-free". In such a case, the driver entering a petrol station to refuel would be encouraged not to touch his mobile terminal inside to the station, due to the forced configuration of the point "c", otherwise he could not operate (at least as regards the operations associated with the refueling).
• the user should therefore activate the transmission of the message 211 by means of the emitting device 102, and he may manage the operations associated with the messages 312 and 313 by interacting vocally with the terminal.
• the techniques of speech recognition are now extremely efficient, especially if applied to restricted vocabularies such as a set of numbers. It is therefore easily accomplished a communication interface in which the user, inside his vehicle, may, according to an eventual audio request, vocally communicate a secret code for authentication and the dispenser number on which he intends to refuel.
• the terminal 200 is the personal radio mobile terminal of the user, configured to operate only via voice commands, even the signal that starts the application 240 could be replaced by a voice command (instead of being a transmitted signal on a short-range radio channel generated by a suitable emitting device 102).
• the latter option will become all the more interesting since the technologies of sound processing will evolve; for example, when it will be possible to recognize the voice of an individual with adequate reliability, a voice command will be more reliable than a hardware key.
• a voice command characterized in that it is associable to a specific user, can be an excellent solution to start said application 240 securely.
• a voice command can be constituted by a fixed or variable secret word (for example it can be a response to a variable question) or it can be a voice command on which a process of voice recognition can be applied.
• the overall system according to the invention can be enriched with additional functional elements. And these additional functional elements can be designed in order to manage the issues of usability and security which are proper of the operations of automatic payment of a refill.
• One of the enabling aspects of the system taught in the present invention resides in the fact of using technologies of recent standardization, which allow a complex system, composed of several elements, to operate properly.
• technologies of recent standardization which allow a complex system, composed of several elements, to operate properly.
• transmission technologies that allow short-range radio transmission, and to conceive mechanisms for initiate complex processes, and these technologies are based on low-cost emitting devices which are suitable to be easily integrated into other objects or in other systems.
• the inventive level associated with the system is not in the use of new or inventive technologies, but the in the architecture with which the various elements of the system interact in order to make possible a method for refueling, in "self-service” mode, with a very smart automatic payment procedure.
• a first emitting device of a short- range radio signal which belongs to the infrastructure of said service station, transmits a predefined message.
• the radio mobile terminal of a passenger of said vehicle receives said predefined message transmitted from said first emitting device of a short-range radio signal and, as a consequence, it executes an application of configuration of said mobile radio terminal.
• radio mobile terminal can execute an application of support for the automatic payment of the refueling operations only if the radio mobile terminal is operating in "hands-free".
• the content of said short-range radio signal transmitted by means of said second emitting device 102 is a predefined identification message 211 containing at least a unique identifier of said second personal emitting device 102.
• Said identification message 211 is received by a device 200 available for the user that may either coincide with said radio mobile terminal of the passenger or it may be a personal device temporarily supplied by the service station and made available to the user upon receipt of said identification message 21 1 : in this last case the steps 1) to 3) are not executed.
• Said device 200 receives said identification message 21 1 and, as a consequence, executes an application 240, able to support the refueling.
• Said device 200 because of the execution of the above application 240, activates a transmission of a message 311 towards appropriate processing means 300 which are part of the equipment of the service station. And said message 311 provides to said processing means 300 the information about the intention of a user to make a refueling together with his identity, and said message 311 is also a start command of an application running on the processing means 300.
• Said last application executed on said processing means 300, also implements a user authentication process that has expressed his intention to refuel.
• said application executed on the processing means 300, also supports an exchange of messages with the management system of the station 400 which, among other things, manages and controls the operation of the fuel dispensers, enabling the supply of fuel (in "self-service") the right dispenser which is near to the user who has indicated its intention to refuel.
• Point 9 of this articulated method for performing a supply of fuel in a "self- service” station, provides for a user authentication that can take place in different ways as previously indicated in the illustration of the overall system which supports the method taught in the present invention.
• said authentication process may be limited to a simple verification that the user, identified through the identifier contained in said message 21 1, transmitted through said second emitting device 102 of a short-range radio signal, is included in (or not excluded by) a list to which you can access through said processing means 300 which are part of the equipment of the service station.
• said authentication process may provide a further exchange of messages between said processing means 300 which are part of the equipment of the service station (that execute the authentication procedure) and a personal terminal of the user, eventually asking this person to enter a secret safety code.
• said authentication process may provide an interaction with a video coverage system, present in the service station, which allows to perform the automatic
• the automatic recognition of the license plate can itself be subjected to an additional authentication process, to counteract, for example, the possibility that a fraudster user illegally takes possession of a emitting device 102 of another user (or reproduce it) and goes to refuel in a service station, counterfeiting even the license plate of his vehicle to reproduce that of the legitimate owner of the emitting device 102 taken illegally.

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