An Arduino based Method for Detecting Cracks and Obstacles in Railway Tracks

Abstract

Indian railways is the fourth largest railway community inside the international. despite the fact that there may be a outstanding boom in Indian railways, this machine remains plagued via some of issues which require immediately interest. on this paper we are thinking about the important problems that lead to injuries. primary issues encompass obstacles access on to the music and cracks at the tracks. to conquer this have proposed a checking out educate which uses ultrasonic sensor with a range of 100cms and put off is 30 cm. primarily based on the gap among impediment and the train, the train slows down. while the train is at a distance of 20cm we growth the delay so that you can sluggish down the educate and subsequently while it reaches to a distance of 15cm the teach automatically stops at some point of summer and iciness seasons the tracks may additionally expand and contract due to which cracks may additionally arise. the led and photodiode setup is located to trying out educate to hit upon cracks. here we're using arduino microcontroller. after crack detection the testing teach stops and the longitudinal and latitudinal positions are sent thru SMS to GSM and GPS.