Vehicles have become one of the most common commodities that the masses have adopted during these modern times. Tracking all such vehicles and regulating their inflow and outflow at any institution/organization is still a labor intensive task. With the development of technology, every day we come across one or the other situation where technology is skillfully replacing all such labor orientated tasks with faultless automated systems which are in most situations cheaper and more efficient. The proposed system in this paper elucidates a similar elegant automation solution for the mentioned situation. This system has the ability to register and deregister a vehicle from a database, identifying it based on its number plate which is fed dynamically to the system. Further this proposed technology makes use of a fast optical character recognition system to map the dynamically obtained characters from the license plate by the system to alphanumeric characters used by standard license plates across the country and eventually registers/deregisters users to automate the tedious gatekeeping process, as we know it today.

Vehicle management system; License plate recognition; Digital Image Processing; Optical Character Recognition; Machine vision; Machine Learning; Automation Systems; Vehicle Parking Automation Systems

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