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PARADA

Guiding every vehicle to its zone.

PARADA is a mobile and web-based smart parking management system using computer vision, license-plate recognition, and zone-based occupancy monitoring.

For drivers
Uncertainty about where capacity is available.
For administrators
Difficulty monitoring occupancy and parking activity manually.
For establishments
Disconnected parking operations and limited visibility into utilization.

PARADA brings these activities together through one connected system.

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PARADA

Smart parking, designed for smarter campuses.

Cameras at the zone gates read your plate, and every zone keeps its own live count, so you know where there’s room before you reach the gate.

Plate
ABC 1234
Type
Registered
Route
Entry › A › Exit
Watch the trip
  • A18/30 occupied in Zone A
  • B42/50 occupied in Zone B
  • C15/40 occupied in Zone C

Demo figures · a BSIT capstone project, Lyceum of the Philippines University — Batangas

What is PARADA?

PARADA is a mobile and web-based smart parking management system designed to help drivers and parking administrators understand, manage, and monitor parking availability through a unified platform.

  • Zone A18/3012 available
  • Zone B42/508 available
  • Zone C15/4025 available

Why zones, not slots?

PARADA treats the parking zone as the authoritative unit of availability. Physical parking spaces can still exist as inventory or layout information, but operational occupancy is represented at the zone level — this keeps the system accurate with standard gate cameras instead of a sensor on every slot.

From arrival to receipt, one pipeline.

Keep scrolling: one car rides the loop from the entry gate to the exit gate, and the system works at every stop.

  1. 1Vehicle arrives

    The vehicle reaches a zone gate or entry point.

  2. 2Zone-gate camera

    The gate camera observes the vehicle and captures the license plate.

  3. 3Computer vision + OCR

    Image processing reads the plate text.

  4. 4PARADA API

    The API determines the vehicle, user, zone, reservation, and admission policy.

  5. 5Vehicle / user / guest resolution

    The plate resolves to a registered vehicle and user, or a guest candidate under policy.

  6. 6Occupancy + session

    Zone occupancy and the parking session update in the same transaction.

  7. 7Mobile + admin

    Both clients read the same backend-authoritative state — drivers on mobile, administrators on the web dashboard.

  8. 8Vehicle exits

    The exit camera/OCR event enters the API.

  9. 9Session completed + fee

    The backend closes the session and calculates the fee where configured.

Guest admission is a policy decision, not a default.

Guest admission is controlled by establishment-defined policies rather than treating every unidentified vehicle as automatically authorized.

Now you drive.

Zone A counts cars at its gate cameras, not at the bays. Pull up under the entry canopy, let the camera read your plate and watch the count go up; leave through the north gate’s exit camera to close the session. Try the guest plate: under the primary-zone policy guests may only use Zone C, so Zone A turns them away.

Drive mode needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off. The pipeline above walks through the same trip.

Plate
Guest policy

Keyboard: WASD or arrow keys, Space to brake, Esc to leave. On a phone, use the on-screen pedals.

Parking from the driver’s perspective.

  1. Find parking

    Live availability across every zone. See open capacity before you even leave.

  2. Choose your zone

    Compare zones by availability and get a recommended zone.

  3. Reserve

    Reserve parking in a zone; PARADA assigns and confirms your zone.

  4. Navigate

    GPS navigation to your assigned zone. No more circling the lot.

  5. Track

    Your current parking status and session, with parking history kept for later.

A control center for parking operations.

Administrators work in the web application; drivers use the mobile app. The dashboard is the operational surface for zones, cameras, sessions and anomalies.

Monitor
Zones, occupancy, sessions, cameras.
Manage
Zones, capacities, cameras, reservations, users, vehicles.
Respond
Violations, appeals, guest admission issues, anomalies.
Analyze
Parking activity and utilization.

The same journey, seen technically.

A camera event travels through vision/OCR into the API, which resolves identity, occupancy and sessions, persists them, and propagates the new state to both clients.

  1. Zone Gate Camera
  2. Computer Vision / OCR
  3. PARADA API
  4. User / Vehicle Resolution
  5. Zones & Occupancy
  6. Sessions & Fees
  7. Database
  8. Mobile Application
  9. Admin Web Panel
Full technical overview

Interested in PARADA?

Learn more about the project, explore the architecture, or get in touch with the team behind the system.

PARADA is a capstone prototype. The OCR / computer vision model, real-time integration and accuracy evaluation are still in progress — see the current status.

GitHubEmail the team

lorenzlanzmalabanan@lpubatangas.edu.ph