Monitoring Traffic Signal Violations using ANPR and GSM

This paper describes an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system designed to detect the vehicles that violate traffic signal by extracting their number plate from digital images. Further, it sends a violation SMS to the owner of the vehicle immediately. The proposed system inputs the captured image of the vehicle. The image segmentation techniques are used to extract the number plate region. Correlation technique is used for comparing the segmented image with the template images. The resulting data is then used to compare with the records in the database. MATLAB software is used to extract the vehicle number plate from the digital image and GSM module (SIM900) along with Arduino is used to send a violation SMS to the violator within a minute after violating.