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Usually in busy life styles as we experience today the time management has become a critical challenge. The extensive use of the technology made it easier to keep-up with the dynamical nature of life styles and accomplish daily requirements. When it comes to transportation, personal transportation has become a more popular. The main issue when we use our own transportation is the limitation of parking areas and there availability even though we find plenty of parking stations available. It is customary in peak hours the call centers in car parks are really busy and reserving parking slots has become impractical. This paper discusses not only the idea of implementing a GSM/GPRS framework to function an autonomous FIFO (First In First Out) based real time reservation mechanism for the dynamic vehicle parking environments but also has implemented a prototype of it and studied the adaptability of the algorithm in the prototype.

This paper presents authors experience about a completely online B. Sc. Degree program conducted in Sri Lanka at Rajarata University of Sri Lanka (RUSL). This degree program is offered in two main streams as Physical sciences and Bio sciences. Both degrees are three years in duration. Focus for this paper is two modules offered in the second year as a common module for both streams. Modules were conducted during February to May in 2013. Since the complete online nature of the program most of the students joined are employed. Moodle server is used to host all the course materials and assignments. Regular online discussion were carried out in order to answer students questions and to clarify unclear points. Students joined the discussion online from their homes mostly from all over the country. Twelve students were followed these modules and students who did not sit for the final exams were excluded from the statistical calculations.

Automatic text extraction from number plates is used in most of the countries in present. In this paper a semiautomatic text extraction from Sri Lankan vehicle number plates is presented. There are several number plate types currently available in Sri Lanka. First a set of template was created based on the font used in the number plates for all the English letters and numbers. Number plate first corrected as can be seen from a camera situated in front of the camera. Then the area of the numbers is extracted. Texts and numbers are then separated in to separate images. Finally separated texts and numbers are matched with the original template created using template matching. A data set consisted of 93 number plates is used to demonstrate the usability of the proposed method.