Design of novel track vigilance system in railway sheds

Abstract

The work presented in this paper attempts to propose a vigilance system to alert the workers in the industrial areas especially in railway workshop shed and yards. Vigilance system in railway sheds offer an effective way to reduce the occurrence of railway accidents Normally, staffs in railway sheds are working round the clock duties and placement of the rakes are also done round the clock. They follow a traditional system such as issuing of memos and announcements which are not sufficient to alert the workers about the arrival of rakes. This leads to the death of valuable lives. The proposed system incorporates relay module, limit switch and transceiver to detect the arrival of train and warn the workers with the help of hooter. The efficacy of the proposed system is checked and found indispensable to alert the employees in railway sheds.