AUTOMATIC CONTROLLING OF RAILWAY GATE

  • Sunil M P

Abstract

Automatic railway gate and track switching system is used to avoid accidents in railway systems. The main causes of accidents are due to not proper working of the railway barrier due to mistakes in track changing & collision with trains coming from the opposite side of track. This paper uses IR digital communication systems to automate railway systems to avoid accidents. In railway gates an IR transmitter is connected at one side of the track and paired with an IR receiver at the other side of the track. Two IR TX-RX pairs are placed at a certain distance at each side from the railway gate. Switches which are fitted on the railway track at an appropriate distance on both sides of the railway gate also. By the help of IR circuit and switches the MCU can detect the position of the trains and the railway gate control motor is managed by the MCU. An anti-collision system is also attached to our project to avoid head to head collision. A laser torch and LDR based technology is used here to stop the train and avoid accidents.

Published
2019-08-30
Section
Articles