Automatic Broken Railway Track Detection using GPRS-GPS

Abstract

Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) are two different developing technologies that become part of ourlife. Their adaption and usages are expected to be more and more effective. Railways are providing Eco-Friendly transportsystem for the mankind.The main objective of this paper is to make a simple, effective and portable robot for the identification of major railway track damages using Raspberry pie and Internet of things. It also uses a GPS system to get the exact location of the damaged track. A robot will move across the railway track with IR sensors placed on it to detect flaw on the track. Its location will be traced and will be transmitted to the main server.