AUTOMATIC CONTROLLING AND MONITORING OF RAILWAY GATE

Abstract

 At the level crossing, an automated railway gate replaces the gates controlled by the gatekeeper by detecting the train and stuck at the level crossing, producing the appropriate warning signal and controlling the gate. The solution will be to create a train tracking module, a fixed detection module, a signal light module, an alarm module, a railway gate controller and a controller module. There are only four ultrasonic sensors and one ultrasonic sensor in the stuck detection module in the train detection module. Both the train detection and the stuck detection module create a high frequency signal via the ultrasonic sensors and detect the object's presence 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.