AUTOMATIC RAILWAY GATE CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

An automatic railway gate at the level crossing replacing the gates operated by the gatekeeper by detecting train and stuck on the level crossing, generating corresponding alert signal and controlling the gate. Developing a train detection module, a stuck detection module, a signal light module, an alarm module, a railway gate controller and a controller module would provide the solution. The train detection module has only four ultrasonic sensors and one ultrasonic sensor in the stuck detection module. Both the train detection and the stuck detection module produce through the ultrasonic sensors a high frequency signal and detect the presence of the object if the sensors receive the echo back. Then the controller unit determines whether the obstacle is train or stuck and takes necessary steps by controlling the gate, alarm generator and signal lights. Experimental studies show that the proposed methodology provides a more cost effective, reliable and simpler railway gate controller than existing dominant work.