Smart Check-in Check-out System for Vehicles using Automatic Number Plate Recognition

In most vehicle checkpoints, the entry process for guests, staff or students making visit to the area involves a security personnel who confirms the entry details by checking the identification document. This process has high probability that it might incorporate human errors during the confirmation and registration process, since this is a manual process. Writing on register and manually entering the entry and exit data can be tiring and time consuming job for a security personnel at the check point. As, the information entered is in hard copy, it is difficult to share. These would lead to improper parking and traffic management problems, as the number of vehicle keep on increasing. This paper proposes an automatic check-in check-out system, which will eliminate manual entry process and minimize the security personal effort. When a vehicle reaches the vicinity of the check point, CCTV camera will capture the vehicle number plate and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) will automatically recognize its plate number using image processing and store the information in the database for vehicle registration and surveillance purpose so that it can be viewed online through web application. Through this system, security and authorized personnel will be able to keep track of vehicle movement along with its owner's information. The proposed solution will reduce check-in check-out time while implying other added benefits in terms of parking management and traffic monitoring.