Design and Development of an Automatic Unmanned Railway Level Crossing Gate

Abstract

In rapidly developing countries like India, Railways are an important mode of transportation among all the people. In the railway sector, the level crossing gate plays a vital role, which should be taken into consideration. But in the level crossing gates, due to poor monitoring by the humans, many accidents are happening day-by-day. So, there is a need to develop technology to solve this issue. This paper deals with the automatic railway gate at the level crossing, which replaces the gates operated by the gatekeepers. By making it in an automatic way, can reduce the time consumption for closing the gate and also reduces human power. Streamlined the working of level crossing gate through a mini prototype model that solves this problem. Here the sensor is placed safely near the level crossing gate, which is kept at a certain distance in the railway track. Whenever the train is fastened in the railway track, the vibrations which are produced during its motion are being sensed by a sensor and it provides the necessary signal pulses to the controller which is kept at the level crossing column setup. Then the controller activates the motor, therefore the gate closes and opens automatically. Visualized the design calculation for making this setup. Hence by implementing this idea, can able to control the accidents in unmanned areas, therefore the precious human life can be saved.