CampusSense - A Smart Vehicle Parking
Monitoring and Management System using ANPR
Cameras and Android Phones
Mohammed Y Aalsalem, Wazir Zada Khan
Farasan Networking Res. Lab, Faculty of Computer Science & Information System, Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia{aalsalem.m, wazirzadakhan}@jazanu.edu.sa
Abstract-- Vehicle parking monitoring and management has become a big challenge for educational institutions with increasing
enrollments, high percentage of vehicle ownership and decreasing parking supply which in result triggering blockage of vehicle,
congestion, wastage of time and money. In university campuses particularly in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, vehicle parking
monitoring and management problem is getting worse and more frustrating due to the fact that majority of students, faculty andstaff members own cars and drive through them to the university campuses. These common problems include finding out people(evidence) who are responsible for the damages (hitting, scraping, scratching and dents) to other cars and the blockage of car due
to wrong car parking which takes much time to locate the owner of the car. Moreover, locating or forgetting their car park
location another difficulty that is often faced by the students, faculty and staff members. The existing cameras located at theparking lots are only for video surveillance and cannot help in such situations as there is a lack of proper vehicle parking
monitoring and management system. To cope with above mentioned problems and to ensure a better parking experience byaccommodating increasing number of vehicles in a proper convenient manner, we propose a smart vehicle parking monitoring andmanagement system called CampusSense. In CampusSense, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras and android
based mobile application is developed to efficiently monitor, manage and protect the parking facilities at university campuses.
Parking problems around the university campus faced by the students, faculty and staff members are analyzed by conducting asurvey.

Keywords—Smart Vehicle Parking Monitoring and Management, Android based Mobile Phones, License Plat Recognition,
Locating Vehicle, Mobile Sensing.
Dr. Mohammed Y Aalsalem is currently Dean Faculty of Computer Science and Information System, Jazan University,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Sydney University. His research interests include realtime communication, network security, distributed systems, and wireless systems. In particular, he is currently leading in a
research group developing flood warning system using real time sensors. He is Program Committee of the International
Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, CAINE2011. He is regular reviewer for many international
journals such as King Saud University Journal (CCIS-KSU Journal).

Dr. Wazir Zada Khan is currently with Faculty of Computer Science and Information System, Jazan University, Kingdom ofSaudi Arabia. He received his PhD from Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi Petronas(UTP), Malaysia and his MS in Computer Science from Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan. His researchinterests include network and system security, sensor networks, wireless and ad hoc networks. His subjects of interest include
Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, Network Security and Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision.