Image appliance vehicle toll transaction system and method for identifying a vehicle at an electronic toll for electronic toll collection

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an image appliance vehicle toll transaction program which, when executed by a processor of a computing device, identifies a vehicle at an electronic toll and performs electronic toll collection, said image appliance vehicle toll transaction program comprising sets of instructions for:

• receiving, via a toll agency system comprising an image capture device configured to capture images of vehicles approaching and passing through a toll, an image captured by the image capture device and image metadata at an image appliance that is communicably connected to an image appliance vehicle toll transaction cloud server;
• sending, by the image appliance vehicle toll transaction cloud server, a unique request ID to the toll agency system, wherein the unique request ID is generated by the image appliance in connection with the image;
• storing, by the image appliance, the unique request ID, the image, and the image metadata in a first persistent storage database;
• forwarding, by the image appliance, the image and the image metadata to an image service;
• forwarding, by the image service, the image and the image metadata to a storage service;
• storing, by the storage service, the image and the image metadata in a second persistent storage database;
• returning, by the image service, an image token to the image appliance;
• storing, by the image appliance, the image token in the first persistent storage database along with the unique request ID, the image, and the image metadata;
• providing, by the image appliance, the image token to the image appliance vehicle toll transaction cloud server;
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• returning, by the image appliance vehicle toll transaction cloud server on behalf of the image appliance, the image token to the toll agency system related to the unique request ID.