Application of Sensors in Railway Tracks for Safety
Karthikamani R1, Sathish Kumar. R2, Divya. N3
1Karthikamani. R, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam (Tamil Nadu), India.
2Sathish Kumar. R, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam (Tamil Nadu), India.
3Divya. N, PG Student, Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, (Tamil Nadu), India.
Manuscript received on 10 December 2018 | Revised Manuscript received on 29 December 2018 | Manuscript Published on 09 January 2019 | PP: 75-77 | Volume-7 Issue-4S November 2018 | Retrieval Number: E1873017519/19©BEIESP
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Abstract: Safety is important in context to any physical mobility. The journey in train has now become more dangerous because of some natural and man-made phenomenon such as floods, earthquakes, cracks in railway tracks, climatic changes etc. To get rid of such dangerous situation sensors are used for safe journey. Many techniques such as crack detection using vibration sensor, obstacle detection using IR sensor, crack and obstacle detection using laser, image processing etc have been used. But the proposed system came out with a brilliant idea of using PIR sensor and electrochemical fatigue sensor for obstacle and crack detection. The system also uses GSM based message alerting so that engine driver can stop the train according the message received.
Keywords: Safety, Cracks, Obstacles, PIR Sensor, Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor, GSM.
Scope of the Article: Application Specific ICs (ASICs)