Abstract
The purpose of an Automatic Parking system is to make it easier for drivers to find an available parking space and provide a fee generation-based exit system. Ideally, heavy labor is required for this type of job thus the paper focuses on using license plate recognition to detect vehicles and its number plate and develop a simple algorithm for parking fee generation. The paper aims to design an automated parking system that captures vehicle images upon entry, detects the license plate using image processing, notifies drivers of available parking spaces, and generates parking fees when the vehicle is about to leave. Sobel Edge Detection is the license plate recognition method used in this paper, which goes through five stages to generate the output of the license plates. The system requires minimal human interaction, as most operations are automated. The proposed system was designed on TinkerCAD and uses image processing tools from MATLAB, with Sobel edge detection being used for detecting and recognizing several vehicle number plates. Finally, the parking fee is generated based on real-time data. This data is gathered upon vehicles’ entry and exit from the parking lot.