IoT Based Project for Railway Locomotive Monitoring System, Alert on Emergency & Updating Parameters to Central Server

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395 -0056
Volume: 04 Issue: 06 | June -2017 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
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IoT Based Project for Railway Locomotive Monitoring System,
Alert on Emergency & Updating Parameters to Central Server
N. Uma Rani1, M. Ranjeeth Reddy2, K. Uday Kumar3
1Associate Professor, Dep. of Electronics Engg, Siddharatha Institute of Technology And Sciences
2Assistant Professor, Dep. of Electronics Engg, Siddharatha Institute of Technology And Sciences
3M. Tech Student, Dep. of Electronics Engg, Siddharatha Institute of Technology And Sciences, Telangana, India.
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Abstract – The main objective of this project work
i.e.,design the electronic hardware using the 32bit ARM
Microcontroller 2oo2 architecture to existing Indian
locomotive and update the parameters to the central server.
Monitoring of parameters includes like Engine Temperature,
Alternator Voltage, Alternator current, Air temp, locomotive
speed etc. Control system also integrates with Vigilance
Control Device (VCD) to know the alertness of driver and if he
is not responding of timely nature then apply the locomotive
brakes to save the life of passengersinsafemanner &updating
the status to Central Server.
KeyWords : MICRO-CONTROL-SYSTEM,REAL-TIME-
SENSORS PARAMETERS, VCD, CENTRALSERVER,
NETWORKMODULE ETC
1. INTRODUCTION
Using the two controllers for hardware module
preparation. One of the controller s using the arm controller
which is LPC1768 m3 cortex series which can ported with
RTOS for advanced hardware module up gradation. System
is failed safe with watch dog features from external
interfacing or internal on chip. Power on reset thecontroller
on initial start up. Second controller is ATMEL AT2560
which is rich set of many pins for controlling the many
external interfacing. Power supply module is designed with
output short circuit protection.Upontheshortcutthepower
supply input Pwm switching pulses stop fordc-dc converter.
Which in turn safe the main controller and other hardware
modules.
Sensors are advanced monitoring to know weathersensoris
malfunction or wrong connected. By knowing the output of
the sensor. Suppose if sensor is short circuit then more
current flows then normal reading range current. So we can
display fault to user that sensor is short circuit or
malfunction. On every power on two controlling system are
initialized with power on self testalgorithmtotestitinternal
modules weather working normal or not. If any abnormality
is found, power on self test become fail and module is
shutdown in fail safe condition. And as two controllers are
we can implement the 2oo2 architecture driving the same
input to the both the controllers and taking the decision
upon the two controllers input received. If both the
controllers get same op then logic can be executed. So for
this uart communication can be connected with two
controllers.
1.1 Classification of Control system
i. Locomotive control system ii. VCD control system
1.2 Central server
It maintains the Real time sensor received data of all
locomotive parameters and sends the message alert if it
parameters in danger zone limit. We can create our own
server and HTML pages to user for realistic .
2. Locomotive control system
Electronic Locomotive control system module is designed
used arm controller with safety controlled logic algorithm. It
collects the data from all real time sensors mounted on
various location on locomotive system, updates the data to
driver control desk Lcd display, Central Server using
Network Module. If any sensor crosses it restricted
parameter zone value then its alerts the driver using the Lcd
display and fault is logged in internal memory and also gets
VCD status data from VCD control system
3. VCD control system
Electronic VCD Module is designed used arm controller and
time cycles precisely maintained using real time clock upon
the VCD start time cycles are in running condition and cycles
condition is shown to driver in every time cycle with
respective output, safety logics are implemented in digital
Input pin and failure of device, bypass mode is auto
initialized in failureof deviceand loco motive brakes applied
and alert to user thatdeviceismalfunction.Uponresetswitch
toggling status is logged into internal fault log memory. User
acknowledge button can be interfaced through many
switches like horn, sander, headlight, foot pedal etc.
working: Locomotive Control Systemmonitorstherealtime
data of voltage, current, engine temperatureetc ,updatedata
on driver control desk and update data to central server
which will be use full for engine performance analysis and
fault diagnosis. VCD control system monitors the diver
alertness. It starts upon the locomotive speed above 0kmph
and brake released condition. VCD unit works under 4 time
cycles. Healthy status is shown through led light by flashing
for every one second. Upon VCD start on

time cycle 0 from 0 sec to 30 secs – normal
time cycle 1 from 30 sec to 45 secs – Led on
time cycle 2 from 45 sec to 59 secs – Led on & buzzer on
time cycle 3 60sec – Buzzer on & Locomotive brake applied
In any timecycle,ifdriveracknowledgetheVCDacknowledge
button then time cycles resets and start from timecycle0. If
user is not responding for acknowledge then it moves from
time cycle 0 to time cycle 1 . still if driver not respond with
acknowledgebutton then moves to timecycle 2, stillifdriver
not respond for acknowledge button moves to time cycle 3
then apply the locomotive brake & show VCD time out fault
log on Lcd display on driver control desk.
Which shows the drivers alertness and if he un conscious
then saves the life of many passengers by applying brake.
Upon brake application driver can reset system by toggling
the reset switch provided after 2mins after application of
brakes. If it is locomotive is in maintenance, then it can
bypassed by manual or bypass mode by terminal user entry.
Chart -1: Engine Temperature
Locomotive control system continues monitories the engine
temperature and updates to the central server and if
temperature crosses the danger parameter value alert the
driver
Chart -2: Alternator Voltage
Locomotive control system continues monitories the
Alternator voltage and updates to the central server
and if sensor parameter value crosses the danger zone
alerts the driver.
Fig -1: IoT Based project for Locomotive monitoring sys.
Fig -2: Electronic unit hardware module of system.
Fig -3: Driver desk control panel display.

Fig -4: VCD control system with driver
display & led indications.
display & time cycle 1 lapsed led on.
display & time cycle 2 lapsed buzzer on.
display & led indications.
display & bypass mode through manual.
3. CONCLUSIONS
After completion of project, IoT based locomotive
monitoring system helps in getting real time parameters
values from live train, which is useful for analysis of
locomotive and fault diagnosis,VCDcontrol system monitors
the continues driver alertness and apply the locomotive
brakes upon the driver un conscious.
Which saves the life of many passengers and logs the fault in
internal eeprom of locomotive control system.
REFERENCES
[1] Application Note: Choosing a Microcontroller for
Embedded Sys-tems Applications Mel Tsai
http://www.mtsai.net/documents/
[2] appnote/appnote.html.
[3] Cengage.Embedded.C.2nd.Edition.Jun.2006.ISBN.14180
39594.
[4] Mandrioli D and Ghezzi,C. , Theoretical Foundations of
Computer Science( John Wiley & Sons , NY, 1987).
[5] https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/HD44780.
[6] http://www.cs.ucr.edu/content/esd/slide index.html
BIOGRAPHIES
Associate Professor
N. Uma rani
Electronics & Comm. Engg
Assistant Professor
M. Ranjeeth Reddy
M. Tech student
k. uday kumar

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