The widespread usage of cars and other large, heavy vehicles
necessitates the development of an effective parking infrastructure.
Additionally, algorithms for detection and recognition of number plates
are often used to identify automobiles all around the world where
standardized plate sizes and fonts are enforced, making recognition a
effortless task. As a result, both kinds of data can be combined to
develop an intelligent parking system centered on ANPR technology.
Extraction of the license plate characters from a photo is the primary
objective of ANPR. Typically, this procedure is expensive. In this work,
we introduce Chaurah, a low-cost Raspberry-Pi 3 based ANPR system
designed especially for parking facilities. The system uses two stages
of technique, the first of which is an ANPR system that uses two
convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The first one uses a vehicle image
to find and recognize license plates, while the second one uses optical
character recognition to extract the licence plate numbers. The second
step of the solution consists of a user-facing application made with
Flutter and Firebase for database management in order to compare licence
plate records. The app also functions as an interface for a payment
system depending on the length of parking time, making it a full
software embodiment of the concept.