Automated Railway gate control system using Arduino and Ultrasonic sensors

Abstract

In a country like India, which has a population of about 1.39 Billion depends on its Transportation for its daily living. Transportation plays a main role in India’s Economic Development and more than 35% of the lives of people in India depends on its transportation.Railways is the most popular and highly used transportation in India. It is the most effective mode of transportation not only in India, but also all over the World. As like its usage it also leads to a high number of accidents. Like road accidents, there are more accidents happening at railway crossings due to the unmanned level crossings and the carelessness of the road users. According to the National Crime Records Bureau [NCRB], the rate of level crossing accidents is 20% up in 2019 than 2018. However there will be an increase in the percentage of accidents every year but the percentage in the last two years has increased drastically. There were 1788 level crossing accidents in 2019, which include 1762 deaths. “Necessity is the mother of Invention” as like this saying the is a simple system, which automatically closes the level crossing gates during the train’s arrival and then the gates are opened automatically when the train passes by. In our system we have used ultrasonic sensors for detecting the departure and arrival of the trains. As soon as the sensor senses the train’s arrival it sends a message to the Arduino which will switch on the buzzer, so that the road users will know that the train is nearer, and after that the servo motor which is attached to the gates will close them and it will be opened after the train passes by. And then the buzzer will also be turned off. This is automated, highly effective and cheap. Our system will eliminate the manpower used at the level crossings.