Rail Track Monitoring and Intelligent Security System for Indian Railways

Abstract

Nowadays, rapid growth in population has increased the means of transportation, due to the
reasons as supplying of goods and services and increase in employment level. Out of which,
the mode and medium of convenience and transportation are railways, but nowadays people
are facing the railway accident problem. The 60% of accidents in railways are due to track
problems which lead to derailment. In our proposed system, the endanger of the crack in
railway tracks has been detect by passing DC supply. Whenever a continuous signal of
proper supply will not be received by microcontroller, it will indicate that there is a crack in
the track and GPS meanwhile will sense the location of the derailment. Thus, getting the
indication and status of crack in the track will avoid the interdictory movement of the train.
Accidents involving trains are often the result of mechanical failures and human error, and
often it is a combination of both. For saving the life of human, endangered due to human
error, we have used sensor module to detect the proximity of the train along the station,
which would result in prior intimation of arrival as well as departure of the train and fourth
the controlling action that is turning on and off the gate will take place without manual
interfacing. We have also designed water level control system, water level from each bogie is
monitored by the train driver accordingly that level is conveyed to the next station. So on the
next station the respective tank will get full without any delay. The proposed system helps to
reduce risk and endanger of failure of rail tracks, saving human life due to human errors.