MALL PARKING SYSTEM

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 Saiesh Mhamal
Partish Natekar Shravan Sawant
ECE Department
ECE Department ECE Department
AITD
AITD AITD
MAPUSA GOA
MAPUSA GOA MAPUSA GOA
15ec35@aitdgoa.edu.in
15ec39@aitdgoa.edu.in 15ec36@aitdgoa.edu.in

Mubasshir Shah
ECE Department
AITD
MAPUSA GOA
15ec53@aitdgoa.edu.in
Abstract: The proposed system in this paper is an advanced
solution for monitoring the parking slots available in parking
sections of malls for the incoming vehicle to be parked and
allotting it a nearest parking slot, which will be done without
any human interventions or human interference. The
technology which we have used is Image processing which
helps our motive of allocation and deallocations of the parking
slot for a vehicle by scanning of its number plate at the
entrance and exit. Image processing is a technology or
Computer algorithm which performs image processing on
digital images, which is possible by Using Raspberry Pi Model
B RASP-PI-3.This project has met all its objectives and
purpose of its implementation. This project is considered to be
successful and ready to be implemented in real time
applications.
Keywords- Image processing, Number Plate Recognition,
Python, Opencv , Data Base Server, Region of Interest.
INTRODUCTION
It is very common to have huge crowds in shopping malls
during peak hour (lunch time, dinner time and weekend) and
discounted sale festive season. Discounts offered by
shopkeepers in shopping mall can attract a lot of customers
to come. Most of the customers travel to the shopping mall
with their own vehicles and this indirectly cause the
problem of finding empty car parking space for the car
drivers.
Parking space is necessary for those who love to go for
shopping and it is a must for shopping complex to provide a
comfortable, secure and quality parking space for their
customers. Nowadays, parking space need to be constructed
in multi-level since the number of vehicles is increasing
rapidly. As a consequence, drivers face difficulties in
searching empty space for parking in a multi-level parking
area. Because of such situation, mall owners employ
security personals on every level to guide the drivers.
But this can’t be a final solution to our problem. Therefore,
the proposed system in this paper not only reliefs the
drivers from seeking parking space but also reduces
number of security guards from the parking area and makes
the parking process simple.
The proposed mall parking system is as follows: -
 The entire parking area is divided into sections.
 Each section is divided into 5 parking slots.
 Also, there are LED strips placed on the ground for
the convenience of driver to guide him to the
parking slot.
The entire parking process will be performed sequentially
i.e. the cars
 Entering will be directed to sections in an ordered
fashion (ascending order).
 There will be two cameras placed on the
barricades, one at the entry point and the other at
the exit point.
 Also, there will be two display monitors at the
entrance and exit point respectively.
 Suppose say initially all parking slots are empty.
The first car which enters, its number plate will be
scanned by camera and its entry time will be noted
down and all this information is saved in database.
 The display monitor at entrance will show the
parking slot section number to the driver.
 Then the LED strips will be lit showing the driver
its respective section. In that section the driver can
park in any slot as per his/her own wish.
 Like this, the first five cars entering will be
sent to first section. The sixth car will be sent
to second section. Like this all parking slots
will be filled sequentially.
 Suppose one of the car owners from any section
wants to leave. Then his/her cars number plate will
be scanned again and its time will be noted at the
exit point and will be kept to match with database
entries.
 Once the match is found, the difference between
entry and exit time will be calculated and the total
amount will be displayed on the monitor based on
the rate/hour decided by the mall owners.
 Suppose the car from second section leaves and if
entering cars were sent to fourth section. As soon
as the camera scans the car from second section,
the next car which enters will be sent to second
section and after the second section is completely
filled. It will continue to send the cars back to
fourth section.
 This is how the entire system will work out.
 SYSTEM DESIGN AND
REQUIREMENTS
 Hardware:-Raspberry pi 3B+, servo motors, led
strips, Relay, cameras, LCD displays.
 Figure 3: The above figure is raspberry pi camera module

Figure 1: The above figure is raspberry pi 3 B plus module

The processor which we will be using is Raspberry pi 3B+ it

Raspberry pi 5 MP camera with 1080p it has to be
operates at 1.4GHz frequency .It has 64 bit quad core
connected to pi via CSI camera pins.
processor .It has some special features like dual-band
The display can be any pc monitor which can be connected
wireless LAN ,Bluetooth 4.2/BLE ,faster Ethernet and
to pi via the HDMI cable.
Power-over-Ethernet support .It has a 2.5 A micro USB port
for input power supply,4 USB 2.0 ports,1 full size HDMI
port, 1 RJ45 Ethernet port , 3.5 mm jack which supports
speaker/Mic at the same time, DSI Display connector, CSI
camera connector and GPIO Breakout pins.

Figure 4: The above figure of led strips

LED STRIPS:-It will be controlled by the processor via the

GPIO pins and power will be supplied to the LED via
external power supply.

Figure 2: The above figure is a servo motor

Servo motor
The Servo Motors come with three wires or leads. Two of
these wires are to provide ground and positive supply to the
servo DC motor. The third wire is for the control signal.
The servo motor can be moved to a desired angular position
by sending PWM (pulse width modulated) signals on the
control wire. The servo understands the language of pulse
position modulation. A pulse of width varying from 1
millisecond to 2 milliseconds in a repeated time frame is
sent to the servo for around 50 times in a second. The width
of the pulse determines the angular position.
 The Voltage source provided to the Relay should be
around 230V.

(2 servomotors one is used in opening of the barricade

at the entry and the other servomotor to open the
barricade at the exit of the parking area.)

Figure 5: The above figure of a Relay

RELAY BOARD: - As we know pi cannot handle ac

voltages which are needed to power the LED strips the
RELAY BOARD acts like an interface and allows the pi to
control the strips.

SOFTWARE:-Raspbian, python.
Raspbian is the OS for raspberry pi which has to be burnt on
the SD card which is going to be inserted in the pi
Python:-The raspberry pi is programmed using python. We
have used Python library Opencv for image processing and
MY SQL database for storing and making data tables.

IMPLEMENTATION

The following figure shown below depicts the

implementation details of our project in which the
raspberry pi module is interfaced with servomotors,
Camera and Display interfaced at the entry to show the
parking slot for the incoming car at the entrance and
allotting it a particular section and the display at the exit
will display the bill depending on the amount of time of
parked vehicle based on the difference of time by the
entry and exit time.

The power source to operate raspberry pi module

should be around 5V-2A DC

Supply the relay interfaced with raspberry pi module

acts like a switch to provide ac power to the control
operation of the LED strips.
FLOW CHART
PROGRAM FLOW TO DETECT REGION OF INTEREST
1) Reading Image
2) RGB to Grey scale conversion
3) Noise removal with iterative bilateral filter (removes
noise while preserving edges)
4) Histogram equalisation for better results
5) Morphological opening with a rectangular structure
element
6) Image subtraction (Subtracting the Morphed image from
the histogram equalised Image)
7) Thresholding the image
8) Applying Canny Edge detection
9) Dilation to strengthen the edges
10) Finding Contours in the image based on edges
11) Masking the part other than the number plate
12) Histogram equal for enhancing the number plate for
further processing
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
FIRST AND FOREMOST, PRAISES AND THANKS TO THE GOD,
THE ALMIGHTY, FOR HIS SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS
THROUGHOUT MY PROJECT WORK TO COMPLETE THE
PROJECT SUCCESSFULLY. I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY
DEEP AND SINCERE GRATITUDE TO OUR PROJECT GUIDE MS.
CHAITALI HALDANKAR ,ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, AGNEL
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN, FOR GIVING US
THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO RESEARCH AND PROVIDING
INVALUABLE GUIDANCE THROUGHOUT THIS WORK. HER
DYNAMISM, VISION, SINCERITY AND MOTIVATION HAVE
DEEPLY INSPIRED US. SHE HAS TAUGHT US THE
METHODOLOGY TO CARRY OUT THE PROJECT WORK AND TO
PRESENT THE WORK AS CLEARLY AS POSSIBLE. IT WAS A
GREAT PRIVILEGE AND HONOR TO WORK AND STUDY UNDER
HER GUIDANCE. WE ARE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL FOR WHAT
SHE HAS OFFERED US.
REFERENCES
1] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/real-time-edge-detection-
using-opencv-python/
2]https://extr3metech.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/convert
-photo-to-grayscale-with-python-opencv/amp/