Railway Emergency Detection and Response System using IoT

The Internet of things (IoT) provides abundant opportunities to mitigate the problems in day to day life. Railway accidents prove to be fatal and are increasing eventually. The railway passenger safety is considered an utmost priority. An automatic emergency detection system consists of various sensors which trigger the microcontroller on detection of an accident. An emergency alert is sent to the railway drivers phone on detection of the accident using the Bluetooth module of the system and short message service (SMS) is sent to the emergency contacts along with the Global Positioning System (GPS) location from drivers phone automatically. The generated emergency message is also updated in the receiver module of the system using a cloud-based realtime database and alarm is activated. A quick passenger side manual emergency alert system for reporting the specific emergency to response team which has options of police, fire and doctor. The idea is to reduce the time of response by emergency response team during an emergency using IoT.