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Car Park Management System With Automated Login and LogoutSystem Using Digital Image Processing (2012)

DSP-01-1112-C1

Chino Jeddison J. Chan, Gerald Timothy C. Chua, William D. Gomez, Kevyn Aldrich L. Tan and Roen Ivan J. Ylagan, advised by Ann E. Dulay

Abstract:

-The Car Park Management System (CPMS) developed in this study aims to reduce the waiting time at check-in, check-out and parking processes of the present car park system. The system also aims to enhance the reliability in data generation and handling.The CPMS comprises three major blocks, the hardware, the software and the interfaces. The hardware includes the sensor in detecting the presence of the cars in both the entry and the exit points. The sensors are also installed inside the parking area, the sensors aid the drivers in looking for an available slot in the developed CPMS. Other parts of the hardware block the system includes the printer for printing the parking tickets, the camera that is used to capture the image of the car plates and the LED display for displaying the necessary information such as converted data and the number of slots available. The interface block of the CPMS includes the PIC Microcontroller that is used to connect the sensor to the PC, and the LAN Network used to synchronize the data of the login and logout computers. The software block of the CPMS includes the image processing of the system and the database. The image processing utilizes JavaOCR for the conversion of the car plate image into text that will be stored in the database with the necessary parameters. Mention here the nuber of training images used and they comprise letters and numbers in the english alphabetThe CPMS is deployed in a makeshift parking space. The efficiency of detecting the presence of the car is 100% while the accuracy of converting the car plate to text has an average of 92%. The car plates tested in this study is the standard 2004 Philippine Car plates how many were used. The car plate should have a font color of green and should contain three letters and three numbers with the Rizal Monument in between. The car plate should also be in a good condition and the environment should be well lit.

Correspondence:

Ann E. Dulay
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