Safe railway crossing system based on Zigbee communication

This paper proposes a safe railway crossing system based on ZigBee communication which is low cost and power efficient. The major reason for proposing this system is to automate the system of railway crossing and avoiding the accidents. This system is targeted towards developing countries where railway crossing is not efficient enough and human resource is required to manually manage the railway crossing gates. One of the reasons of not using automated railway crossing systems in developing countries is the overall high cost of the system which is not affordable by the developing countries. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes a low cost and power efficient railway crossing system. Due to inexpensive nature and energy efficiency of ZigBee wireless modules, they are chosen to be used for proposing this system. Several experiments have already been conducted to gauge the overall efficiency of ZigBee communication in outdoor environment that prove reliability of data delivery using ZigBee modules.