• Saurabh Ranjan
• Dr. Kakoli Banerjee
• Naman Jain
• Prateek Mittal
• Divya Khanna

The railway station deals with more than 12k trains daily which demand extremely fast and efficient control system. The manual control is slow, tedious, stressful and doesn’t involve any holistic operational management. Hence we require an automated system to record and maintain different components of the railway track management system. In this paper, I propose the automation of three different areas of management of railway tracks: Monitoring of speed of the train, Temperature monitoring, and Lubrication. The basic idea of the execution of the project is, first of all, placing the sensors that help in storing required data such as rail temperature, the speed of the train, and then fetching the signals on Raspberry Pi and finally performing the computation. If the result of the computation goes beyond the specified limit then the buzzer will go off and nearby stations will be informed. For the lubrication system, the railway tracks need to maintain a fixed range of friction in turns with more than 3 degrees of turn i.e. 0.25 to 0.3u.[9] This is achieved by continuous lubrication system sensing the train wheels to pass by. This lets the train to pass the turn with maximum efficiency and least wear and tear. The monitoring of rail temperature helps in tackling the issue of rail buckling and any type of wear and tear due to the interaction of rail wheels with the tracks.

railway, iot, track management system, ctsl, crt, lubrication, turns

"Railway Track Management System", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.108-112, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906018.pdf

"Railway Track Management System", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp108-112, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906018.pdf