Tracker entry M42: Brazil: SINIAV electronic vehicle identification
Adopted
Brazil
- Region
- Americas
- Sector
- Vehicles
- Imposed by
- Contran
- Applies to
- All vehicles
- Technology
- RFID required (UHF)
What the rule requires
SINIAV would put a UHF RFID tag on every vehicle, read by roadside antennas, but after repeated delays it has never been rolled out nationally. Do not plan around it until Contran or Senatran sets a new timetable.
Status: On the statute book since 2006 but never rolled out nationally; no current deadline
What it means for RFID
SINIAV is written as a UHF RFID mandate: every vehicle in Brazil would carry a UHF tag read by roadside antennas. Because it covers all vehicles, a national rollout would mean tags for the whole fleet and a network of roadside readers.
Contran created SINIAV in 2006 and restated it in 2012 and 2015, and Resolution 537 set a nationwide start of 1 January 2016, but the Denatran timetable behind it was never delivered. There is no current deadline, so tag and reader suppliers should treat it as dormant until Contran or Senatran sets a new timetable.
Timeline
- Contran Resolution 212 creates SINIAV
- Resolution 338 sets rollout from Jun 2011 to Jun 2014 (later pushed back)
- Resolution 412 restates SINIAV on RFID
- Resolution 537 restates SINIAV
- Nationwide start set by Resolution 537, to a Denatran timetable that was never delivered
Sources
Official source: Contran Resolution 537/2015
Last checked against the official source on 1 November 2026.
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