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Multilevel Automated Security System for Prevention of Accidents at Unmanned Railway Level Crossings

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Developing technology to come up with viable, economic and efficient solutions for prevention of accidents at unmanned railway level crossings is an active research field. Many approaches have been proposed in this research area but none of them are efficient enough to deploy them at the unmanned level crossings and completely eliminate human presence. In this work, we have sensed the research gaps in the current technologies which try to eliminate the unmanned railway level crossings by building Road Over Bridges and Road Under Bridges or by manning them. We have come up with a cost efficient and effective multi-level automated system for prevention of accidents at the railway level crossings using sensor networks.

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  1. National Institute of Technology Goa, Ponda, Goa, 403401, India

    Damodar Reddy Edla & Venkatanareshbabu Kuppili

  2. Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science, Madanapalle, A.P., India

    Diwakar Tripathi

  3. Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Dhanbad, India

    Ramesh Dharavath

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Edla, D.R., Tripathi, D., Kuppili, V. et al. Multilevel Automated Security System for Prevention of Accidents at Unmanned Railway Level Crossings. Wireless Pers Commun 111, 1707–1721 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-019-06952-4

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