Automated parking system with automatic number plate recognition

With the growth of population in urban cities, there is a rapid increase in the number of vehicles and hence there is shortage of parking spaces. In this paper we provide a novel idea of automatic number plate detection and recognition along with allotment of parking space. The parking space is allocated in an efficient manner as distance traveled will be less.  The number plate detection is done by extracting the image from the video and the number is identified using Optical Character Recognition. The parking space algorithm uses sequential assignment of parking spaces; the algorithm is eventually improved to solve the real time parking allotment