Abstract With ever-increasing traffic in railways, demand for heavier and high speed rails is proportionately increasing. This also entails regular inspection and maintenance of railway tracks for safety and timely run. Components deteriorate over time affect the performance and makes reliability and safety of the system questionable. The present work deals with a summation of ultrasonic-based continuous monitoring of railway tracks with signal and speed control of rails, based on wireless sensor networks for preventing accidents and saving precious human lives. This system is divided into two parts as hardware and software development. The first part describes how the ultrasonic sensors scan the tracks with the help of microcontroller unit and based on output, it also controls the signal point. If crack is detected then the microcontroller will make the signal showing stop sign as well as send the geometric parameter of crack wirelessly to the nearby station master and nearest train of this track. If by some means the driver neglect the alert as well as track signal then automatic speed control will be activated to stop the train and prevent accidents. The second part is based on software programming to operate the hardware structure. This automatic sensor based system performs at day and night continuously without disturbing the train’s mobility.
Continuous Monitoring of Railway Tracks with Speed Control of Rail Wirelessly
2018-10-02
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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