In recent years our world is witnessing a great advent in technology and population. With the increase in population there has been an increase in the number of four wheelers i.e. cars. People need more parking spaces. Car parking is a major problem nowadays. Safe and secure parking is needed. Four different car parking proposals are tried and tested: counter-based, wired-sensor-based, wireless-sensor-based, and image-based. In this paper we test a counter based parking system. Arduino and an electronic circuitry has been used to tackle this problem of parking. It keeps a count of the number of cars in the parking lot and also displays if there are empty spaces. Such parking lot does not require any human presence. It is also cheap and easy to operate.