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Automatic Railway Barrier System, Railway Tracking and Collision Avoidance using IOT

International Journal of Computer Applications, 2017

IOT can be used to improve various aspects of the railway system. Automation of railways can transform the current legacy systems and help decrease the railway related accidents significantly. This research paper proposes a system where sets of infrared sensors are used to track the position of the train and its direction. This information is used to close/open the railway barrier automatically via a motor connected to a microcontroller unit. It is also used to warn the driver about a possible collision with a train coming from the opposite direction via an SMS sent from the GSM module attached to the microcontroller. The position of the train is sent to a webpage via the GSM module for tracking.

AUTOMATED RAILWAY MONITORING SYSTEM

IRJET, 2023

Telecommunication and computing technologies are crucial in solving real-world problems, particularly in developing countries where issues with railway-level crossings remain prevalent. The consequences of level-crossing accidents can be severe, resulting in fatalities, injuries, and vehicle damage, which can have a significant impact on a country's economy. To address this issue, an IoT-based framework for an automatic railway gate controller has been designed. The primary objective of this framework is to automate the opening and closing of railway gates upon the arrival and departure of trains, respectively, the primary objective of the proposed model is to minimize the occurrence of accidents, especially at unmonitored railway crossings. This system also reduces the time for which the gate remains closed, providing a more efficient and reliable operation. The proposed gate controller is suitable for unmanned level crossings, where accidents are more likely to occur, and manual operation errors can be prevented through the automatic operation of the system. The system operates using an Arduino-based system, which receives input signals from two sensors and sends information to the gate motor driver to open and close the gate. The arrival and departure of trains are monitored, and the gate is operated accordingly. Overall, the implementation of an automatic railway gate controller utilizing IoT technologies has the potential to significantly reduce the number of accidents at level crossings, promoting safer and more efficient transportation.

SMART RAILWAY NETWORK

IASET, 2013

Smart Railway Network‟s (SRN) future is based on mobile communication and its ability to overcome fixed blocks so as to increase the utilization of tracks and interoperability throughout India. We have formalized various scenarios like the automatic announcement, expected minutes of arrival and centralized control of the system that would help provide a better understanding of the requirements. Data processing board on the train is a crucial factor for safe and efficient operation. We have structured the formal specifications of the behavior of each module hierarchically. An easily understandable documentation for the developers and customers; also, the simulation and automatic validation at every development stage is possible, hence increasing the safety and decreasing the financial requirements.

IJERT-Railway Track Monitoring and Accident Avoiding System

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2019

https://www.ijert.org/railway-track-monitoring-and-accident-avoiding-system https://www.ijert.org/research/railway-track-monitoring-and-accident-avoiding-system-IJERTCONV7IS06080.pdf Railway is the most popular and friendly transportation system of the largest part of the cities in the world. Train is widely used for comfortable and safe journey in a reasonable fare. People from different professions can effort it. Almost 10,000 billion freight tonne-Kilometers and more than 5 billion Passengers of rail transport have been travelled around the world per years. The railway transportation system plays an important role for business as well as for leniency and safe travelling in modern life. But at every turn, the train is facing unexpected situation in travelling because of wrong signal, wrong track switching, insecure level crossing etc. for which collision have been occurred. As a result, lot of damages has been done in economic sector with lot of causalities which affect our progress. But we can avoid this unexpected collision and take prevention from the accident dynamically by using the collision detection technology which can be made by ultrasonic sound with a special embedded system. By using this technology can detect the obstacle and gradually slow down the speed by initiating the air brake to stop the train before the collision takes place.

Automatic opening and closing of railway gates and signaling in railways using IoT

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCE RESEARCH, IDEAS AND INNOVATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a group of devices which are connected together in the network. It is used in sound vibrator and ZigBee transceiver which will receive frequency of the vibration and the time from which the train reaches the sensor from the server. In this, we are using a sound vibrator which will detect vibrations from the track and the signal is transferred to the gear motor and the gate will get closed automatically. When the train passes the gate another sound vibration sensor is fixed at another end and it will transfer the signal to the gate and gate will open automatically. Here the additional features added are we can calculate the current speed of the train and we can also track the track damage. The main objective of this work is to provide automatic closing and the opening of gates and railway system. We can avoid careless mistakes done by the gatekeeper and we can reduce manpower in the railway system.

SMART RAILWAY SYSRTEM-FYP REPORT

Zarshan Mehmood, 2021

Railways are the convenient, reasonable and popular node of transport in almost all major cities of not only in Pakistan but also all over the World. Railways are the most widely used and comfortable nodes of transportation system. The objective of this report is to provide an automatic railway gate at a level crossing replacing the gates operated by the gatekeeper. It deals with two things. Firstly, it deals with the reduction of time for which the gate is being kept closed, and secondly, to provide safety to the road users by reducing the accidents. By the presently existing system once the train leaves the station, the stationmaster informs the gatekeeper about the arrival of the train through the telephone. Once the gatekeeper receives the information, the closes the gate depending on the timing at which the train arrives. Hence, if the train is late due to certain reasons, then gate remain closed for a long time causing traffic near the gates. By employing the automatic railway gate control at the level crossing the arrival of the train is detected by the sensor placed near to the gate. Hence, the time for which it is closed is less compared to the manually operated gates and also reduces the human labor. This type of gates can be employed in an unmanned level crossing where the chances of accidents are higher and reliable operation is required. Since, the operation is automatic; error due to manual operation is prevented. Automatic railway gate control is highly economical microcontroller based arrangement, designed for use in almost all the unmanned level crossings in the country. Electric Locomotives were first used for the movement of main-line traffic over 45 years ago. This early application was for tunnel work but it may be taken as the beginning of a new era in main-line transportation. In this era the steam locomotive has been transformed in appearance and characteristics. More recently the Diesel engine has been applied to passenger and freight trains. During all this period of development the characteristics of the electric locomotive have continued to be superior to those of either the steam or the diesel-electric locomotive. Many of the early ideas with regard to the application of electric locomotives are still valid today, but progress in transportation engineering has become so accelerated that a periodic review of each type of motive power must be made by those who are responsible for their application. A discussion of the engineering fundamentals which enter into the selection of an electric motive power unit for main-line work will be presented. An understanding of these fundamentals is essential to the specification of a balanced design. A locomotive which is Desired on this basis will give all of the advantages of momentum operation augmented by high electrical horsepower at high speed. This is one of the unique advantages of the electric locomotive. Now a day's in Pakistan most of the train accidents are occurs due to the human errors. It is very difficult to avoid to such train accidents because of the speed of train is very high and it requires some time to control it. In this report the effective solution is present to avoid the train accidents by using LiDAR. The primary goal of proposed system is to identify an object or obstruction in front of train and sends signals to the train using sensors so the brakes will be applied before collision happens. Currently there is no solution to avoid train collision. Each locomotive is equipped with an automated surveillance system. When the driverless system powered, the engine starts and two diodes located on the front of the train became lit simultaneously. When the ultrasonic sensor located on the front detects any obstructions, the engine responds by shutting down immediately. Hence, train stops after a few seconds. The range of ultrasonic sensor will be set in a way that train must be stopped behind the obstacles or objects. Arduino Mega plays an important role to do this task.

IJERT-Realtime Safety Measures in Railways Using Embedded System

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2014

https://www.ijert.org/realtime-safety-measures-in-railways-using-embedded-system https://www.ijert.org/research/realtime-safety-measures-in-railways-using-embedded-system-IJERTV3IS080289.pdf Nowadays Railway accidents quiet common in our daily routine life .So many innocent people lost their lives due to these accidents. For example, recently so many people dead in major fire accident happen in Tamilnadu express train in country India. We can stop like these disasters in future with present science and technology. This paper proposes a new system for preventing the accidents in railways using Sensor networks. It involves two parts of implementation. In the first part, the sensor nodes are used for collecting data such as temperature, concentration of smoke in air, intra and inter bogie temperatures automatically. These collected data are processed to monitor temperature and bogie temperature, if any mal detected exit door opens and water is pumped automatically in the compartment at the information is reached to locomotive engineer and the nearby station master. The second part implements the surveying system for the railway tracks which detects the cracks in the tracks using IR sensors and the derailment in train is detected using MEMS sensors. Hence the system performs both the data acquisition and the survey. The overall process is then controlled by the PIC micro controller which is 8 bit microcontroller and suits very well for the Data acquisition and the control system based application used largely in the industrial applications. In this project, PIC microcontroller gets the data's from sensor nodes, the survey sensors (Inclination using MEMS) manipulates and issues the control signals to the final control elements. Also, it uses GSM to send data's to the locomotive engineer. By implementing this project the Railway network will be safe and secure mode for transportation

ITS based railway track monitoring and accident avoidance using smart sensor technology

IJSER, 2018

The increased growth in the railway sector has resulted in an increase in the train traffic density across the world. This project work is aimed towards addressing the issue by developing and automatic railway track crack detection system using signal processing technology. This has resulted in the increase in the number of accidents involving trains. Manual detection of tracks is not fully effective, owing to much time consumption and requirement of skilled technicians. This project will work without human interference. In this project, the proposed system includes several features which prevent train accidents. It includes automatic speed controlling in curves, crack detection, soil moisture detection and track continuity. This system makes use of soil moisture sensors, signal processing technology and other embedded systems. Key Words: Signal processing, crack detection ,embedded system, soil moisture sensor, track continuity, RF module, wireless communication

SMART AUTOMATION IN RAILWAY SYSTEM

Now a day we are using over bridges for crossing the rail and manual controlling mechanism for the railway gates. But most of the passengers are not utilizing this facility and they will cross the rail directly and leads to accidents. Also the carelessness of the gate keeper or absence may lead to accidents at the railway crossings. In this project we are introducing a new intelligent platform which reduces accidents and make an easy passage for passengers from one platform to other platform and also an automatic railway gate which is controlled by a computer. The proposed system consists a detection system, microcontroller unit and motor driver system. The main advantages project is, it reduces the accidents at the railway crossing and platforms and provide an easy passage for the passengers.

Smart monitoring of the train and train tracks to prevent railway hazards

International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology and Science, 2020

Smart monitoring of the train and train track is very important in the Indian railway to prevent accidents. Especially in India it is very important. The Indian railway system is lagging regarding smart monitoring of train with the other countries. By smart monitoring of the train, it can find breakage of train track, it can prevent accident between two train if two train is on the same track due to miss matching of signal, it can find whether there is any obstacle present in railway track, it can also detect whether two compartment of the train get separated during the motion of the train due to manufacturing defect. It helps to detect fire in the pantry car . Smart monitoring of the Indian railway help to monitor the train and its track in a very effective way .It can implement in Indian railway that helps to avoid the accident and save lots of people’s life