PROJECT PROPOSAL

Automated Parking
System

Project Supervisor:

Mr. Muhammad Hassan Zaib

Group Members

Muhammad Naeem Khan

Muhammad Ammar Sohail
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Supervisor Comments:
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• Proposal Idea is good enough to take it as a Final Year Project.

• Am I doing project for the real Client, if Yes, Students have to provide evidence letter in
proposal Defense Presentation.

Supervisor Comments (if any):

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• Project Proposal is accepted under your Supervision

Supervisor Signature with Date:

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Project Proposal is approved

Submission Date: _____________________.

 Revision History

Version Description Author Date

Naeem Khan
First Release,
1.0 Muhammad 11 Nov, 2019
Initial Release
Ammar Sohail
Automated Parking System
INTRODUCTION:
A utomated Parking System [1] creates space in order to ease the community. Automatic Parking
System technology enables parking from hundreds up to several thousand cars in half the area
of a conventional ramp style garage. The high speed efficiency of Parking System and fast retrieval
times ensure rapid throughput &the number of cars in and out per hour' and satisfying user
experience

Automatic license plate recognition is a Computer Vision technique which is able to recognize a
license plate number. This system is useful in many field likes parking lots, private and public
entrances, theft control. In this, we designed such a system. First on entrance we capture the image
from camera then load into system and at the same time a barcode will be generated and will be
printed at the paper receipt which the driver have to keep. The location, the vehicle to be parked
will also be given at the paper receipt. Then at the time of Exit, driver will have to verify his
identity by scanning barcode and at the same time License Plate will also be captured and the
process like entrance will take place. If the identity is verified through both i.e. Barcode and
License Plate Scan then vehicle will be allowed to Exit.

Over the decades our country has been developed drastically, now we are in this state that we have
a lot of well contacted roads, commercial building and increasing number of automobiles. With the
increasing amount of roads and highways transportation has become the backbone of our day to
day life. Transportation has also become the backbone of our economy for its wide usage in trade
and business. So parking of these transportation or vehicles has become a matter of consideration.
While parking these vehicles in parking space we still use the very old fashioned manual procedure
of parking. Which are maintained in unplanned manner, without any discipline. Due to this, people
can park their cars anywhere they want to, which creates a mess as people don’t follow any
discipline most of the time. While parking in and retrieving car due mismanagement cars can get
dent by bumping with each other as there is lack of sufficient space. This leads to arguments, fights
among people which sometimes create traffic jam. This is also an economical lose as we need to
repair our damaged car. Cars consume extra fuel while parking in or out. Due to this chaos in
parking our valuable time gets wasted. It harms the students, office going staffs and emergency
patients to a great extent. It also causes economical loss to commercial places like shopping malls,
amusement parks as people are more likely not to visit these places due to this parking hazard.
Automated car parking systems will provide several benefits. It will save time and fuel cost. In
manual parking system it is too hard to find out the empty space for parking, it is very much time
consuming. Sometimes it causes late in meeting or other important works. It will save fuel as in
this system an automatic tray will take the vehicle into the required slot. This will reduce the fuel
cost of searching for parking space, parking in and out. Here we do not need to lighting all over the
parking space all the time. It will only have the lights on when it moves and where is the path and it
is very much electricity saving also. It provides security from theft of vehicle and it can earn
revenue. It can introduce us to advanced digitalized systems which show us the Engineering
excellence in our country.
 CURRENT SYSTEM

The current system of the Parking of Vehicle is Manual system which has following disadvantages.

1. Security problem is major problem in manual car parking, people can enter in parking slot and
there snatching, robbery can happen.
2. We can see in many shopping malls, hospitals huge traffic jam in front of the parking. The
parking guard stops the entire vehicle and gives a payment slip, this creates traffic jam.
3. It is difficult and time consuming to find out the parking slot which costs extra fuel and wastes
time.
4. In manual parking system some guard needs to be appointed for the whole job, it is costly
enough

PROBLEM STATEMENT

There is no proper system which insures the security of the vehicle and checks the proper alignment
and order of the vehicles.

PROPOSED SYSTEM

Here we are introducing Automated Car Parking Systems (ACPS) as a solution of these problems as
well as a replacement to the manual car parking systems at commercial spaces. This system not only
saves time and money, it can also earn money by charging for parking spaces.

ACPS will be go through the following processes

Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is a computer vision technology to extract the
license number of vehicles from images.

[2]First we capture the image from camera then load into system after that we used OpenCV
library tools. Then we make the training set of different characters of different sizes. On the
basis of these training set we extracted the character from images. When the license plate is
detected, its digits are recognized and displayed in the GUI.
 Fig. 3: Block Diagram of the Open CV Technique

1. CAPTURE
The given image of the vehicle is captured by camera which is high resolution quality. We save
this image in the system.

Fig. 4: Captured Image

2. PRE-PROCESSING

Pre-processing is the technique in which background illumination conditions and the number
plate localization algorithms is used. In this phase mainly focuses on reduce background noise,
enhancing of contrast.

3. NUMBER PLATE LOCALIZATION

The number plate localization is the phase in which mainly focuses on ROI (Region of Interest)
where we find the contour region.

3.1 CONTOUR TRACING

Contours can be explained simply as a curve joining all the continuous points (along the
boundary), having same color or intensity. The contours are a useful tool for shape analysis and
object detection and recognition. Here we use contours in rectangle shape.

Fig. 5: Contour Image

4. EDGE DETECTION

The edge detection helps us to detect the edges present in an image.

5. CHARACTER SEGMENTATION

Character segmentation is the technique in which individual character present in the image is
separated out. Here all character is checked out individually.

6. CHARACTER RECOGNITION

An automatic license plate recognition system must recognize alphanumeric characters. The
character image is compared with the training set and the best similarity is measured and
according to this recognized character is displayed.
 Fig. 6: Recognized Vehicle Plate

BENEFITS OF PROPOSED SYSTEM

It has got following benefits.

1. Safety in the parking

2. Time Saving
3. Reducing traffic jam:
4. Operating Cost Saving
5. Fuel Saving

MODULES & SUB-MODULES DESCRIPTION

Optical Character Recognition Module

Data Pre-Processing Module

Experiment and Analysis

Front-End Desktop Application

PRIMARY ACTOR

• Operator (User)

SECONDARY ACTOR

 Manager(Staff)

TOOLS & TECHNIQUES USED

 FRONT END TOOLS

• Visual Studio Code

BACK END TOOLS

• Anaconda(Python)

PROCESS MODEL & DESIGN APPROACH USED

• Rup Process Model

REFERENCES

[1] Dr. Jafar, Dr. Javed, “Examining important factors influencing the adaptation Automated
Car Parking System in Malaysia” in Malaysia, 2014.

[2] https://electronicsforu.com/electronics-projects/prototypes/artificial-intelligence-api-car-
parking-management-system