Automatic railway Track

Crack detection & Gate

Control
Under the guidance of :
Miss Monalisa Samal

GROUP MEMBERS

Chirag Kumar Jain

Asish Das
Prabhu Ranjan Pandey
Kunal Kunj
Priyadarshi Kumar

INTRODUCTION
This project relates to the train rail crack detection and

gate controlling and sending the information with the

help of GSM modem.
Cracked rails occurs in various geographical areas, in

various climates and at various location where rail beds

are in less than optimal condition.

In our minor project we have already shown a demo

model which detects the crack in the track using RF
sensors and now in our major we are going to
implement a GSM technique to send the information to
other stations .

REASON FOR EXTENDING THE

PROJECT

Railway communication system is widely

used for day to day transport of common
people & Indian railway system is largest.

We are extending this project because we

have already shown the crack detection
but only by detecting the crack we can
not prevent more accident unless a
systematic gate controlling mechanism is
being equipped with it.

PROJECT DETAILS

In this project we are using ATMEGA 16

microcontroller to control the gate mechanism
and GSM technique to send the information from
one station to other stations.

We are using IR sensors for opening and closing

purpose of GATE

When train is detected in between sensors then

GATE is closed automatically and when it passes
from station then it opens automatically

We are using relay circuit and many more electronic

equipments which would help us to generate a
circuit which would be powerful to detect rail track
crack and send signals.

We are designing a device which has its own sensor

transmitter(LASER) & sensor receiver (LDR)because
railway track is solid iron & light can pass through it,
so whenever there is crack light passes through the
track and LDR senses the crack & activates the
buzzer and stops there so that particular area
should be identified through wireless camera.

IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT
BY STEP WISE PROCESS

REQUIREMENTS &
AVAILABILITY

Any project has 2 requirements :

1- Hardware
2 Software
We require hardware part such as : relay
switch, capacitor ,transistor and many
other parts which are shown later on
when we proceed..
We require microcontroller programs for
software purpose.

LAB EQUIPMENTS REQUIRED

FOR PROJECT

RELAY
CAPACITOR
RESISTOR
TRANSISTOR
DC MOTOR
COIL
BUZZER
TRANSFORMER
VOLTAGE REGULATOR
WHEELS
CAMERA
CHESIS (BODY )

RAILWAY TRACK
BATTERY
CDMA HANDSET
IR SENSOR, RECEIVER &
TRANSMITTER.
LED
RAINBOW WIRE
PCB(PRINTED CIRCUIT
BOARD).
CONTROL PANEL
TV(IF REQUIRED)
MICROCONTROLLER

FUTURE SCOPE

The project we are presenting is a demo project

of rail track crack detection and gate controlling
which is an advance technology and not
implemented successfully before.
If technology which we are using would be
implemented in larger scale with as per
requirement it would help in detecting rail track
crack and help us in preventing
A) derailments which causes many accidents.
B)would save certain life
C) goods which are transported through train
would be saved.

Now a days terrorist also take the help of

rail track crack to take lives of people
and make government agree their
demand.

It is a one time process & would certainly

help in many ways in future if
implemented successfully.

CONCLUSION

Existing railway technique & technologies,

together with terrorist tactics, definitely have
influence on the research and development
of new security technologies for protecting
railway systems against terrorist attacks.
The development & use of new equipment
technologies has a big impact on everyday
life, either positive or negative.
We need to preserve our people & this
derailments which occurs due to some lack of
technology.

So we want to give our way of better &

advanced technology through this demo
project which if implemented looking at its
future scope will be a one time investment
for government but will avoid many
uncertainties that happens in everyday life.

The real truth is electronics can never be

trusted completely but we have to take our
chances with it and technology which we
have tried to do our best in this project.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

www.secr.indianrailways.gov.in

www.irsme.nic.in

www.ieeexplore.ieee.org

www.wikipedia.org

ANY Q & A