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SMART RAILWAY MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
Manish kumar
Divyanshu singh
Sait Bangalore Sait Bangalore
email:divyanshusingh1251@gmail.com email:manishkumar85539@gmail.com
Abstract Smart Railway Management System project is
designed to deal with the problem faced by the existing railway
model. Automatic operation of railway system is the main
concept behind this project which includes the features such as
Automatized Pedestrian Crossing, Artificial Intelligence,
Automatic Detection and Operation at railway crossing provides
features accident prevention and timely operation, Smart
Coaches, Fast and secure accessing, Train location tracking, Fire
detection at station etc. This project uses ATmega 328P-PU
microcontroller along with Bluetooth Module, RF transmitter
and receiver and Sensors. The entire system works on the
detection of IR sensors while sensor detects the train. These
signals are used to gather the information of Train location and
action to be taken to ensure the safety at different areas of
Railways. The entire system is based on the detection by the
sensor, this signal is used to lighten up the control signals for the
vehicle as well as trains. The same signal is used for providing
operational data for the systems automatized operation. The
digital control system provides an upper hand for controlling the
different operation related to the train. Fast and easily accessible
information about train present status, location & notifications
provided for common people. Features like fire detection are
provided in the train as well as station to provide fast services at
the time of emergency. The Smart Coaches features provide the
automatic controlling of the electronic appliance. Automatized
pedestrian cross provides an easier way to reach the different
platform when the train is not at the station.
Key Words - pedestrian crossing, artificial intelligence, smart
coaches
Snehil Anand Sumaiya Mohammad Zabiulla
Sait Bangalore Sait Bangalore
email:snehil1anand@gmail.com email:sumaiyamdz@gmail.com
I. INTRODUCTION
The railway system is the most dependent transportation
medium in our country. Thousands of people daily depend on
railway transportation. And also a large number of human
beings losses their lives due to carelessness and unawareness
about railway system. Most of the people do not use the over
bridges and directly crosses the railway track. This leads to the
major number of accidents. Also, the level crosses without
watchmen will also lead to accidents. Hence we are proposing
an automated railway system for better protection and to
reduce the number of this kind of accidents. The objective of
the Automated Pedestrian Crossing System is to control the
connection to the platform from the microcontroller which
alerts the passengers about the arrival of the train and controls
the platform automatically. The objective of the gate control
system is to close the railway gate when the train approaches
the gate and to prohibit the vehicles to pass by and to open the
railway gate as the train leaves completely from the railway
gate area automatically. In order to provide the automatic
controlling the two main components of the system are
A. Railway Platform control
B. Railway gate control
RAILWAY PLATFORM CONTROL
The project comprises three major parts namely,
Detection system
Controlling system
Alerting system
Detection System
The main components of the project are two IR sensors which
are placed on both sides of the station. One of the IR sensors
that detect the arrival of the train and the other IR sensor
placed at the end side of the station detects the departure of the
train.
Controlling System
When the train crosses the first IR sensor, which is kept near
the rail with a predefined distance from the platform, the
microcontroller will send a signal to the motor and hence the
pedestrian connecting the platforms gets removed or opened.

When the train crosses the second IR sensor, the
microcontroller will send a signal to the motor and hence the
pedestrian connecting the platforms gets closed.
Alerting System
In our project for the alerting purposes, we mainly use two
components, one is the led used for giving the signals and the
other is a buzzer. Three LEDs, Red, yellow and Green have
been used in our project is to inform the passengers about the
status of the train as well as the platform. Yellow LED glows,
when the train crosses the first IR sensor and the passenger
gets an alert of stop using the pedestrian to change the
platform. The Red LED glows when the train is about to cross
the platform. And the Green LED glows, when the train has
crossed the second IR sensor at the end side of the station and
the passengers are allowed to use the pedestrian for changing
the platform. The buzzer is used in our project to present
signal for the crossers-by about the status of the train. The
buzzer will activate when the train is approaching the station.
RAILWAY GATE CONTROL
In general, Railway gates are opened or closed manually by a
gatekeeper. The information about the arrival of the train for
opening or closing of the door is received from the nearby
station. But some railway crossings are unmanned and so
many railway accidents occur at these unmanned level
crossings.
So, an automated gate controlling system is what can be used
to avoid such accidents and to provide better control and
functioning of the Railway System.
This project deals with an interesting manner of automating
the railway gate control where the gate is automatically
opened or closed by detecting the arrival or departure of train.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
Increase in demand of services has influenced to increase in
urbanization, privatization and more requirement for
transitional and final consumer services. Services are mainly
consisting of economic activities like transportation , trade,
tourism, communication, banking, insurance, real estate,
public Administration and Defense. The infrastructures
include transportation, financial, trading, communication, and
business services, social and personal services, community,
come under the category of the service industry. The railways
is an important infrastructure in the Economy of India. The
existence of suitable transportation network can have a great
role in developing countries since all the sectors of the
development are closely dependent upon it. The well laid
foundation of transportation is on what the whole structure of
industry and commerce rests. Thus, an effective transport
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system is a neccesary for economic development of the
country. The economic growth of India has increased over the
last two decades and so there is huge need of reliable
commutation service like railway.. The development of
railways is one of the landmarks in the progress of human
civilization.
In Indian Railway most of the level crossing gates are
controlled manually, which makes the level crossing
vulnerable for the accidents and unwanted traffic at the level
crossing. Most of the traffic signal is wired rather than being
wireless. This makes passages a lot of trouble due to delay in
train movement and people at the crossing.
III. PROPOSED SYSTEM
Smart railway management system operation is based on the
functionality of IR Sensor. A Reflective type IR Sensor is used
to locate the position of the train and all the data of sensor are
transmitted to microcontroller wirelessly. The Reflective Type
IR Sensor, the transmitter and receiver are calibrated. When
there is no obstacle in front of the sensor, the IR rays
transmitted by the IR Transmitter will go undetected as there
are no rays falling on the IR Receiver. If there is an obstacle in
front of the IR Transmitter and Receiver pair, the IR Rays will
get reflected off from the surface of the obstacle and are
incident on the IR Receiver. This setup can be configured to
detect an object like a Train and in turn, it can be used to
switch ON or OFF the loads like motors with the help of a
microcontroller.
The motors are used at pedestrian crossing so that when the
train is not on the track, the bridge gets connected to another
platform and another set of sensors are used to detect the
arrival and departure of the train , so that when a train
approaches the next level crossing, the gate at level crossing
will close automatically as so as train sets detected by the
sensor. The level crossing also consists of LCD display, which
show the incoming of the train and when to cross the track for
a safe crossing at level crossing. At level crossing LEDs are
used control the traffic by indicating to stop or move, based on
microcontroller signals.
Artificial intelligence is used to manage the track and train
motion so that collision and accidents can be avoided. It will
control and entire railway system based on its previous pre-
programmed system and its previous data, it receives from all
the sensors. This also makes sure that all the data has been
tracked and analysis for any further improvement in operation
as well as to prevent any accidents or failure of the system.

Temperature sensors and smoke sensors are used for
monitoring of temperature in coaches and detection of fire in
the coaches, so the accidents and damage can be prevented
before is occur.
RF transmitter and receiver are used to move and control the
model train from the microcontroller.
Fig 1: Block diagram of proposed system
HARDWARE DESCRIPTION
A) BLUETOOTH MODULE
Bluetooth Module is easy to use SPP (Serial Port Protocol)
module, which is designed for transparent wireless serial
connection setup. The communication of the module is via
serial communication which makes an easy way to interface
with a controller or PC. It is able to use neither receiving nor
transmitting data as it, provides switching mode between
master and slave mode.
B) SDM [SURFACE MOUNT DEVICE]
It has almost the same functionality of the Arduino, but in a
different package. This SDM uses a Mini-B USB cable
instead of a standard USB. It has a 16 KB of flash memory
for storing the code (of which 2KB is used for bootloader), the
ATmega328 has 32 KB, (also with 2 KB used for bootloader).
The ATmega328 has a 2 KB of SRAM and 1 KB of
EEPROM , the ATmega168 has 1 KB of SRAM and 512
bytes of EEPROM (which can be read and written with
EEPROM library).
C) RELAY DRIVER
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A Relay can be used as a switch which can be controlled by
applying positive voltage whenever required. It can be used
for preventing the circuit from being heated, as it can be used
for both ac and dc.
D) H-BRIDGE DRIVER
Robot requires a motor to rotate a wheel or performs
particular action. Since motors require more current then the
microcontroller pin can typically generate, you need some
type of a switch (Transistors, MOSFET, Relay etc.,) which
can accept a small current, which is then amplify and a larger
current is generated, which further drives a motor. This
complete process is done by what is known as a motor driver.
E) AUDIO AMPLIFIER
The LM386 is an integrated circuit which contains a low
voltage audio power amplifier. This is suitable for battery-
powered devices such as transistors, guitar amplifiers, and
general electronics. The IC consists of an 8 pin dual in-line
package (DIP-8) and can output 0.25 to 1 watts of power
depending on the model using a 9-volt power supply.
F) LCD
It is an electronic display module which is favored over seven
segments. LCDs are cost effective and comparatively easy to
program. It has two registers specifically Command and Data.
The function of the command register is to store command
instructions assigned to the LCD whereas the data register
stores the data to be displayed and the data given is in ASCII
(American Standard Code for International Interconnection)
format.
G) PIEZO BUZZERS
It generally has two wires, red & black. Polarity matters for
the buzzers are : black=ground and red=Vcc.The piezo buzzer
has a resonant cavity for sound and is supported by the buzzer
case.
SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION
Embedded C was introduced by the C standard
committee for common extensions for embedded systems
using C programming. Embedded C programming requires
non standard extensions to the C language in order to support
some features such as fixed-point arithmetic operations ,
multiple distinct memory banks and I/O operations.
The C Standards Committee extended the C language to
address these issues by providing a common standard for all
implementations to adhere to. It contains a number of features
which is not available in normal C language , such as, named
address spaces, fixed- point arithmetic, and basic I/O hardware
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addressing. Embedded C uses most of the syntax and
semantics of the standard C, e.g. main () function, data type
declaration, variable definition, conditional statements (if,
switch, case), loops (while, for), arrays and strings, functions,
structures and union, bit operations, unions, macros, etc.
The flowchart used in the system is as shown in the figure.
The speed, temperature and moisture in the train is
controllable.
Information of train to an individual for encouraging
public transportation.
It is very user-friendly. Encourages the railway
transportation by ensuring safe travelling and faster
accessing the details of the train

V. CONCLUSION
The proposed system provides automatic control of the entire
railway system and reduces the human casualties due to
negligence and inefficient communication from train to central
station. This system provides safe, secure and smart way of
railway transportation and also ensures the detection of defect
in the entire railway management system. This system
encourages the railway transportation by ensuring safe
travelling and faster accessing the details of the train.

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Fig 2: Flowchart of system
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IV. ADVANTAGES
Prevents accidents which are common nowadays.
Fast and easily accessible information about train
present status, location & notifications is provided to
common people.
Automatized pedestrian crossing provide an easier
way to reach the different platforms when the train is
not at the station.
Advantageous than the present railway system.
Sensors are able to capture the location of the train
very easily.
Simple to implement, easy to operate and flexible
Fire detection is provided in the train as well as
station which provide fast services at the time of
emergency.