In-Service Rail Track Monitoring and Fault Reporting

Rail track monitoring is an emerging system, which is being adopted and supported by many countries across the world. In-service rail track monitoring and fault reporting refers to the inspection of the track routinely and intimates the fault immediately to provide service at the right time. The proposed system elaborates the automatic control of the gates at the railway crossing in order to reduce the traffic jam occurred near the level crossing. This system provides the exact location of the fault by enabling GPS and intimates the fault to the highest authority using GSM or Wi-Fi module. When deployed as a system, this reduces the human hurdles of operation, increases consistency and prevents accidents at railway level crossing. It also avoids human intervention and manual errors because the quality of the result depends upon the workers.