A system of automatic control of the rail gate is implemented to prevent accidents of the traction system in the levels of the railway crossing. Today many accidents occur in the passage of the railroad gate due to uneven crosses, even when the door is about to close. In general, a railroad gate is normally operated by a gatekeeper when he receives information about the arrival of the train.
Railway safety is the most crucial aspect of railways around the world. This is the cheapest mode of transportation around the world, and therefore, accidents are bound to happen due to manual careless operations. Therefore, an automatic cross-rail gate controller is used to prevent accidents at unmanned level crossings to provide much needed safety. These efficient controllers are mainly used in remote areas that often lack the services of a station master or a line man at crossing levels. The automatic door control system can be implemented using different technologies such as GSM, Bluetooth and Android. This article describes two automatic rail gate control project themes related to Android and GSM technologies.
Rail-related accidents are more dangerous than other transport accidents in terms of severity and mortality rate, etc. Therefore, more efforts are needed to improve safety. There are many railways that cross without being manned due to the lock of the labour necessary to satisfy the demands. Therefore, many accidents occur in such a crossing as there is no one to watch the operation of the railroad gate when a train approaches the crossing. The main objective of this work is to manage the control system of the railway door using micro-controller. The proposed model has been designed using an 8052 micro-controller to avoid rail accidents occurring on unattended railway gates if detection of train approaching the gate can be detected by two sensors placed on both sides of the gate. This work uses the two sensors placed on both sides of the door. This work uses two powerful magnetic sensors is fixed at the top and similarly the other magnetic sensor is fixed at the bottom of the direction of the train. The sensors are fixed on both sides of the gate. We call the sensors along the direction of the train as a fore side sensor and the other as a lateral sensor. When the fore side sensor is activated, the detected signal is sent to the micro-controller and the gate is closed and remains closed until the train crosses the gate and reaches after the side sensors.