Railway Refuge System

G.SNEHA[1], G.RAGHUNANDAN[2], J.PAVAN[3], T.MALLIKARJUN[4], Mr.Assoc.Arun[5]

[1][2][3][4]
UG Students,Dept. Of Electronics and Communication Engineering, MLR
Institute of Technology,Hyderabad,India.
[5]
Associate Professor,Dept. Of Electronics and Communication Engineering,
MLR Institute Of Technology,Hyderabad,India

Abstract-
Rail accidents are one of the serious issues till the Introduction:
present day. Despite of safety measures, every
The Indian Railway System has the world`s
year at least one serious accident is recorded. The
largest railway network, there are about 14000-
aim of this paper is to present a handy module
15000 trains travel every day and there are many
consisting of sensors and microsystems in order
accidents which occur in the railway stations. The
to avoid the rail accidents,
railway transport mode is made more effective by
as compared to many of the transportation
the fact that it connects the most of populated
systems the railways is the easy and cheapest
areas at increasingly high speeds, providing
mode, in the view of this due to overcrowding in
social cohesion at local level, so many passengers
the railway station lead to loss of many people
travel by them daily.
life’s, and even many people don’t use the foot
Due to this reason many people cross
over bridge in order to cross the platform, many
the tracks, foot board the train and overcrowding
people who are in a hurry to catch the train run
leads to these train accidents, in these cases many
along the platform to get into the running train.
people loose their lives and some people become
.In recent times there was a death which took
handicapped. Though the government had taken
place in the metro railway station where a
many countermeasures to save the peoples life’s
youngster jumped onto the track and committed
but still many accidents takes place thus by
suicide. So keeping these factors into
using our project we can prevent the major
consideration we came up with an idea called
issues in the rail accidents.
"RAILWAY REFUGE SYSTEM", which
II.HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
separates the passengers from the track and
The hardware requirements for this paper are
avoids the railway accidents.
A. Micro-controller: time if they strike any object they reflect as echo
signals to the sensor, which itself computes the to
The micro-controller we are using this in this paper
distance the object based on the time-span between
is Arduino development board mainly 8 bit which is
emitting the signal and receiving the echo back
based on atmega 328p

Arduino boards are ready to read the inputs such as

light on the sensor and finger on a button and switch
it into an output-running a dc motor, turning on an
led, you`ll tell your board what to do by sending a
set of instructions to the microcontroller on the
board.

In this project ultrasonic sensor is the main part of

This project they are used to sense the train arrival

and departure they are placed in huge quantity on
bottom sidewalls of the platform so that they
perform accurately and sense the train

C. Buzzer:

Arduino is the brain of this project it performs

accordingly to the c-language code, when it receives
the signals from input side that is ultrasonic sensors
based on logic 0 or 1 it gives signal the motors of
barricades rise and shutdown ,which is the output
and it has switch cases and act accordingly.

B. Ultrasonic Sensor:
The buzzer is nothing but alerting or audio signaling
The ultrasonic sensor is at a sensor which senses the
it is of piezoelectric type and turned it when there
object or obstacle using ultrasonic waves it emits
will be confirmation such as push button
high-frequency ultrasound waves at intervals of
 In this project, the buzzer will be turned on and Block diagram of the Railway Refuge System :
alerting when the passengers enter no entry zone
when there is no train

D. BARRICADES

Barricades are nothing but protective wall which

separates passengers and track when there is no
train. It rises and shutdown with help of 4 dc motors
and rack and pin mechanism

III.SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
I)Programming Language:C Language
Ii)Arduino IDE

V. WORKING
The main function of this project is when the
train arrives at the platform then the ultrasonic
sensor placed at bottom sidewalls of platform
senses the train and when the covers all the sensors
it means all sensors are high or 1 logic then this
signal is sent to Arduino micro-controller and
accordingly it performs next task, that is to shut
down the barricades by giving the signal to the
Motor driver to drive the motors accordingly so that
passengers can board the train and buzzer will not
be turned on ,even pressure sensor senses the
passenger in the no-entry zone because the all
ultrasonic sensors are high or 1 logic as soon as the
train starts moving if one of the ultrasonic sensors
becomes low or 0 logic then barricades move up
and starts alerting passengers .

VI.RESULT &CONCLUSION
IV.BLOCK DIAGRAM
Our project concludes that it helps passengers to https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/man-slips-trying-to-
make their journey safe and tranquil. Although board-moving-train-watch-incredible-rescue-by-rpf-
implementation of this concept may be expensive 2106850.
but we can keep the existing railway system has it is
and can install the whole concept of “RAILWAY 2. Contacts
REFUGE SYSTEM” in it. In the countries like Email: raghurebel990@gmail.com
India during the festival season most of the public Email: gourishettysneha@gmail.com
travel to their hometown which eventually leads to Email: japalapavan@gmail.com
overcrowding of railway station due the passengers Email: arjunchowdary9810*@gmail.com
heist there may be chance for the accident to occur
so this system can control the overcrowding
situations in the railway station. Moreover, it is a
one-time implementation. By these project
passengers are forced to follow rules of the Indian
railways by these there will no more unnecessary
accident occur on the railway platform it makes
RPF (railway police force) job easy. It even warns
the passenger if they approach the installed
barricades in absence train. In future this project
will be developed and ready to install in real-time
railway system with more accuracy and precision
also with a manual monitoring system.

VII. REFERENCES
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1. Incidents
https://www.ndtv.com/topic/train-accident
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/chilling-video-
shows-woman-busy-on-phone-falling-in-front-of-
train-2125760