Crack Detector & Fire Safety Monitoring System for Railway Inspection

Abstract

In recent technologies several sensors are used to detect the crack in railway track. This paper is to design a robotic module to detect cracks in the railway track and indicate it to the corresponding track inspector. In railway track, there may be cracks due to natural calamities or due to the displacement of track. Today's system has some limitations. If the bridge or track is damaged, that information goes to railway authority people, they inform to the corresponding train operator so that it will take more delays for such process. So to avoid delays, our proposed system will immediately notify and informs the current train comes on the track through ZigBee Network in this prototype. Track status is monitored by ultra-sonic sonar sensor modules. Another major thing is Fire Alarms. The paper proposed here can detect fire accident and alert the distant Driver immediately in the same train. Also the system can capable of informing about the fire accident to fire service station. And we propose a cost effective solution to the problem of railway track crack detection utilizing ultrasonic sensor assembly which tracks the exact location of faulty track which then mended immediately so that many lives will be saved. So the rescue team can easily and quickly reach the place and also guide the passengers regarding the emergency exit immediately.