Controlling railway gates using smart phones by tracking trains with GPS

Railway is the most commonly used transportation vehicle. Most of the people choose this transportation mainly for low cost and it gives comfort ability. To increase this comfort zone and to reduce the number of accidents, our system gives a complete solution. Nowadays, we met a lot of railway accidents. Most of these accidents occur at railway gate level crossings. Up to date there are several proposals to avoid the number of accidents and to reduce the manpower at railway gates. Most of the proposals used sensors as a key device to detect the arrival of the train but which requires maintenance cost and it is not efficient method. It also requires monitoring process to detect the fault in sensors. This paper track and detect the arrival of the train by using GPS and not by the sensors. This way of train tracking using GPS is embedded with our mobile application. Using this application the engine driver controls the railway gate.