Smart Car Parking Using Image Processing

With the rapid increases in the usage of vehicles in recent years, finding a parking area is more difficult, which leads to practical conflicts such as traffic congestion. In this paper, a solid system is used to identify a free slot in a parking area and keep the record of vehicles which are parked. It is very useful for the drivers to find a free slot before they reach their destination and to calculate a parking charge while leaving the parking area. In this system, sensors identify the free slots, a vehicle is identified using image processing, and the parking charge for each vehicle is detected on the basis of the time that the vehicle is in the parking area.