ADVANCED RAILWAY TRACK FAULT DETECTION AND REPORTING OVER IOT

Abstract

In India, most of the commercial transport is being carried out by the railway network and therefore, any
problems in the same has the capacity to induce major damage to the economy by impact of loss of life
because of accidents. This paper proposes a cost effective yet robust solution to the problem of railway crack
detection utilizing a method that is unique in the sense that while it is simple, the idea is completely
novel.There is an increasing with the number of accidents at railroad railings. Now a days we use different
types of transport facilities like Track, bus, flight and car etc., but above these facilities we chose to travel with
rail because by travelling through the rail is cheap, takes less time to deliver the our product, system and it is
the cost efficient but the number of accident on railway track due to fault on track and when any obstacle came
in front of the train. This paper deals about one of the efficient methods to avoid Train accidents. Here we are
using Microcontroller for automatic control of Infra Red sensor to detect the fault on railway track. After
detecting the fault Microcontroller will give information about the fault to the loco pilot in the train indicating
red led, gives buzzer alert and Train automatically stops, it sends the information to control room through IOT.
The main components used in this project are Microcontroller (Arduino), IR sensor, IOT, Buzzer, DC motor .
We are using Infra Red Sensors because it is the directional data transferring device it can show the output of
fault and help us to take action according the fault on the track. With the help of this proposed project train can
run on time during winter season on foggy condition and on night also where driver unable to see anything. It
can be helpful for the Indian railway.