Author(s)

Hilal Al-Kharusi, Ibrahim Al-Bahadly

School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

This paper aims to present an intelligent system for parking space detection based on image processing technique. The proposed system captures and processes the rounded image drawn at parking lot and produces the information of the empty car parking spaces. In this work, a camera is used as a sensor to take photos to show the occupancy of car parks. The reason why a camera is used is because with an image it can detect the presence of many cars at once. Also, the camera can be easily moved to detect different car parking lots. By having this image, the particular car parks vacant can be known and then the processed information was used to guide a driver to an available car park rather than wasting time to find one. The proposed system has been developed in both software and hardware platform. An automatic parking system is used to make the whole process of parking cars more efficient and less complex for both drivers and administrators.

Intelligent Parking, Image Processing, Space Detection

Al-Kharusi, H. and Al-Bahadly, I. (2014) Intelligent Parking Management System Based on Image Processing. World Journal of Engineering and Technology, 2, 55-67. doi: 10.4236/wjet.2014.22006.