RFID Based Cashless System Using Merchant Card

RFID based cashless system provide a comfort, tension free and easy way of travelling and also to reduce the man power. The challenges which are faced currently in the ticketing system mainly comprises of the formation of "Queues" for buying the tickets for local trains and also the change for money which we have paid is seem to be critical condition in railway ticketing system (RTS). This paper deals with the development and implementation of a system to buy the local train tickets which is simple and easy to use. Ticket can be bought with the help of a merchant card. The ticketing information of the user is stored in the database. A merchant card can scratch with the RFID Reader and it would match with the card number and the stored information in database and proceed for buying the tickets. An OTP generated on registered mobile number which then use for authentication. After authentication relevant customer can buy the tickets as per need, the total amount can be calculated and that much of amount are deducted from the balance amount in the account as soon as the ticket can generate from the system