Open AccessInternet of Things (IOT) for Railways
Author(s) -
Pravin Krishna
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of engineering and advanced technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2249-8958
DOI - 10.35940/ijeat.f1136.0986s319
Subject(s) - train , radio frequency identification , internet of things , global positioning system , track (disk drive) , computer science , identification (biology) , tracking (education) , control (management) , real time computing , the internet , database , telecommunications , computer security , embedded system , world wide web , artificial intelligence , geography , operating system , psychology , pedagogy , botany , cartography , biology
The biggest problems of the Indian railways are accidents and more delay time. The Internet of Things (IOT) can be used to reduce the effect of above two problems. Many accidents occur because of un-attended railway gates, over speed and improper signaling. The information of trains is not so clear to the railway stations, which leads to delay in trains. In this paper some solutions are proposed, to make the railways better, like automatic gate control, train tracking using Global Positioning System (GPS) and track switching. This can be achieved by IOT along with database management system (DBMS) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Each train is tracked using RFID and information is updated into the DBMS.