Author: Anjitha KB
Abstract: By every new day, alternative technologies are being developed, which in turn are helping to increase the speed of trains. Indian Railways aims to increase the speed of its passenger trains to 140180 km/h on conventional tracks. Thus it can be seen from the trending aspects of railways that they are primarily focusing on increasing the speed rather than the safety of the passengers. The primary focus should be the safety of passengers. Generally, it is seen that when a train compartment catches fire due to any reason, it's not easy to detect the fire initially and react to it. Due to this, the train does not stop instantly, which results in casualties and heavy damage to the train.
The objective of this paper is to design an Embedded Based Railway Train Safety System. This system consists of an Arduino, motor, fire and smoke sensor, alarm, and alert system. This paper proposes an embedded system that will be used to alert people so that life and damage can be minimized. If the train coach catches fire, the smoke sensor will sense it and send a signal to the Arduino. This activates the motor to pull the chain and activates an emergency alert system that sends an alert message to the train driver and guard room and activates the alarm. If the chain system to stop the train does not work properly, then even in that case, this system is very effective. So this system is useful to protect the precious lives of passengers and minimize the heavy damages due to fire accidents.
Keywords: Arduino, Embedded System, Fire, Passengers, Railway, Safety, Smoke sensor
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