Automatic Wireless Sensor Network Based Railway Safety System.pdf

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 9(20) June 2015, Pages: 313-317 ISSN:1991-8178 Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences Journal home page: Corresponding Authors: S. Sasirekha, Department of Information Technology, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai- 603110, Tamil Nadu, India. E-mail: sasirekhas@.in Automatic Wireless Sensor Network Based Railway Safety System 1S. Sasirekha, 1I. Joe Louis Paul, 1B. Prasanth, 1M.R. Pravinkumar, 1K.H. Srijish, 2S. Swamynathan 1Department of Information Technology, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 2Department of Information Science and Technology, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received 16 April 2015 Accepted 12 June 2015 Available online 1 July 2015 Keywords: Wireless Sensors Devices, Railway Network, Train Derailment, Object Detection,Monitoring. In the present state of railway transportation, the presence of railway monitoring system in railway networks ensures that the train control system becomes a much easier and safer system. In the modern day railway system, there are many problems such as derailments, fire accidents and etc. These problems are still happening in spite of the technological advancements made. Derailments may occur due to the primary mechanical failure of a track component, wheel breakage, excessive speed and signal error. Other disaster may occur due to the various reasons such as collision with other trains, road vehicles, or other obstructions like level crossing. Moreover, train derailment could also happen because of sudden traction or braking forces. In this paper, a new monitoring system for railway network based on wireless sensor devices has been proposed. This frame work helps the railway system to detect the damage in the track, level of corrosion on wheels, bearing faults, object dete