A Novel IoT Based Railway Platform Safety

Railway transportation is the most preferred means of transportation because of its various advantages like being affordable; it’s wide stretch among most parts of the country etc. Railway stations are found almost every part of our country. Maintenance of these stations is added feature for much safer and comfortable railway transportation. People falling into railway track when there is a train entering or leaving the platform and platform suicides are few of the accidents that might happen in railway station. Through this paper we are addressing this issue by installing automated gating system along the railway platform; the model is built using IoT sensors like IR sensor. As this is a model operates outdoors, we have built this model to be simple and operate with as less maintenance as possible.