AI-Based Parking Management System

AI-Based Parking Management System: An Overview

What is an AI-Based Parking Management System?

An AI-based parking management system leverages advanced AI techniques to efficiently manage parking slots, parking tickets and extract vehicle number plates. Unlike traditional systems that rely on expensive ALPR/ANPR CCTV cameras, this approach utilizes AI algorithms to perform the same tasks with the help of normal CCTV cameras. As a result of this, there is a significant reduction in the hardware costs related to CCTVs.

The entire parking process, from vehicle entry to exit, can be seamlessly automated using below AI-driven techniques and algorithms.

Automated Vehicle Parking Process Using AI

Vehicle Type Identification at Entry

Upon entry, the AI system identifies the type of vehicle, which determines both parking access and applicable charges. AI models, trained using algorithms like RCNN and YOLO, excel at classifying vehicles into categories such as cars, motorcycles, and bicycles.

Number Plate Recognition

The next crucial step is extracting the vehicle number from its license plate. While high-end ALPR/ANPR cameras offer this functionality, they are significantly more expensive, costing 10–15 times more than standard CCTV cameras. By deploying custom AI models, businesses can achieve the same outcome at a fraction of the cost.

Approaches for Number Plate Extraction

Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Python libraries like EasyOCR can efficiently read and extract numbers from license plates.

Train OCR With New Data: Existing OCS can also be trained with a new set of data for better performance. These OCS can extract number plate chars in a better way with efficiency.

Custom AI Models: Deep learning techniques enable the training of AI models specifically designed for license plate recognition. These models are not only cost-effective but also highly adaptable to diverse scenarios.

Benefits of an AI Based Parking System for Vehicles

Cost Efficiency: Reduces reliance on expensive ALPR/ANPR cameras by utilizing standard CCTVs and custom AI solutions.

Automation: Streamlines the entire parking process by identification of vehicles to number extraction from the vehicle number plate.