AUTOMATIC RAILWAY CROSSING USING EMBEDDED SYSTEM

Abstract

Transportation has become an essential medium in 
today’s life, it has become a daily routine of many 
people. One among those transportation medium is 
railways, this project mainly focuses on the 
automation in the field of railways, and i.e. the 
automatic railway gate control using Arduino 
UNO, Buzzer, LED, IR Sensor etc. for further safety 
purpose a GSM module is used. As the need for 
transportation increases accidents are also 
increasing day by day, this project helps in 
eradicating the railway accidents gradually. An 
arduino is used to feed a program that works 
according to the desire of our project, when the gate 
operates i.e. (opens or closes) a message is sent 
through GSM to a registered mobile number for 
safety. Main purpose of this project is to make sure 
that the accident rate is decreased while crossing a 
railway gate. This project can also be implemented 
in real world with some upgraded equipment but 
the working principle of this project always remain 
the same. This project aims to provide an automatic 
railway gate control at the level l crossing 
replacing the manual gate control. The railway 
gate is to be closed automatically when a train is 
done by using two IR sensors. The opening and 
closing of the gate is to be done using stepper 
motors and this stepper motor is controlled by 
Arduino. Additionally the status of the gate will be 
given to the motorman well in advance. This 
insures more protection from the accident. LCD and alarm are used to indicate the closing of gate 
for the people who are trying to cross the gate. IR 
sensor are used for the proper closing of the gate. 
At present people go for various modes of 
transportation such as by buses, flights, car, train 
etc. Out of this majority depend on railway, people 
opt this because they always seek for the service 
with more comfort with cheaper rates. In spite of 
this safety measures followed, everyone could see 
a lot of accidents took happened in this sector; 
knowingly or unknowingly it may take away lives 
of many ones. The occurrences of these accidents 
are mainly because of defects of rails. Now 
railways are performing fault detection by means 
of manual inspection, so it will be better if go for 
an advanced system where Railway track damage 
status is monitored by using sensors and transfer 
related information through wireless modules. 
Because majority of railway accident’s prime 
reason is fault within the track such as occurrence 
of crack etc. As there need to ensure safety at all 
related aspects, unmanned railway crossing also 
need to be taken to account. This problem can be 
solved by introducing a fully automated system 
controlling railway level crossing gate more 
effectively