Claims:An automatic unmanned railway level crossing gate,
1. The proposed setup contains a vibration sensor is being fitted at a certain range from the level gate. This sensor is kept near the railway track so that the vibrations produced by trains is taken into consideration by the sensor.
2. The setup entire operations are being controlled by the Arduino UNO. The different level gate setup is being made with horizontal beam and vertical column. Here the DC motor is being fitted in the column, where the motor shaft gets connected to the beam.
3. According to claim 2, the power source for the entire operations is taken from the electric station which is used for electric trains.
4. According to claim 3, there is no need to keep a separate power source for the process. The simple step-down transformer is used to reduce the power and it provides the appropriate power suited for performing the operations. , Description:Generally, people like to travel from one place to another place, and their mode of travel may be a part of entertainment or a part of their daily life. For travelling purpose people may chose different modes of transportation based on their status and comfortless. Usually, railways are the best mode of transportation among all the people, because the train travel saves a lot of time than roadways and it was cheaper too. Indian railways are the fourth largest network in the world. At present 49% railway routes are electrified and 33% routes are double and multi tracked. Therefore, there is a necessary to construct a very large number of level crossing gates across India.
Since there is large number of leveling gates is to be present, it’s difficult to keep a separate monitoring stations and gate keeper to notify the process. So, the monitoring and controlling of level crossing gates is to be automated to make it more precise and accurate. Automatic level crossings are installed on the railway lines to regulate and control the road traffic. Different type of level crossings is available in the market, they are named as road over bridge or road under bridge.
In the existing level crossing gates different mechanisms like locking arrangement which includes, the hasp and staple type with padlocks, two chains with loops which is available at both the ends. The gates are designed in such a fashion that it should be in the form of lifting barriers along with chains which should be in a standard design. In the existing manned level crossings, it consists of two long spare chains which is located at both the ends, and it should be placed near the tracks. The spare equipment consists of two discs painted red with the words "stop" is also fixed to the ground. The level crossings gates which is located between the outermost stop signals which should be monitored and controlled by separate Operating Department. The pertaining structures and the level crossings structures shall be maintained by the Engineering Department. This prototype model deals with the automatic process of closing and opening of gates, therefore the manual operation of performing the tasks gets reduced. The main advantage in the process is that once installed this concept in the real time, there is no need of regular maintenance of this setup, hence it encourages the government to use it.