Designing Of a Low Cost Based Alerting System to Prevent the Train Accidents Using GSM and GPS Technology

摘要

This paper is proposed to design the rail engines with a new emergency automatic braking system called Vigilance Control Device (VCD) to prevent the train accidents due to the un-alertness of the loco pilots. The proposed system is a microcontroller based safety system which w ill enhance safety of the passengers by cyclicallygenerating warnings and by automatically stopping the train if the driver is fast asleep or incapacitated or dead. This paper also gives the information to the higher authorities regarding the position of the loco crew and the position of the train where it is stopped by using Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies. If the loco pilot does not perform a regular task such as accelerating or braking for a stipulated period of time a message will be send to the Vigilance Control Officer (VCO) through GSM. After the train is stopped automatically by applying the penalty brake, its position is tracked by GPS and a message will be send to the vigilance control officer