Enhancing Animal Safety Measures by Avoiding Train Collisions Using Internet of Things (IoT) with Advanced Sensors Association

S. Praveen Kumar, S. Kaviraj, R. Naveen Kumar, T. Nagaarjunan

2025

Abstract

Transportation infrastructure degrades ecosystems in part because animal deaths caused by car accidents disrupt ecosystem dynamics and endanger vulnerable species. Despite the prevalence of wildlife train crashes globally, this issue has received comparatively less attention in the realm of railroads compared to highways, where it has been well studied and mitigated. The Naxalites in India will likely try to derail our protest train by releasing tracks, and the Indian railways might be in danger from an animal-rail collision in a forested region. Currently, behind China, Russia, and the US, India's railway network management ranks fourth globally. India is a good case in point; in the last five years, the Indian government has enacted a plethora of legislation meant to safeguard wildlife sanctuaries and jungle creatures living in close proximity to railway tracks. Our analysis of crack detection and animal-rail collisions in the surrounding region will help us figure out how to fix this issue and whether or not these problems might drive up the budget for the Indian Railways and cause casualties and damage to property. In this paper, we present a cost-effective solution to the problem of managing rail-animal accidents. We propose using load cells to receive the precise location of the defective area in the track, which will help with both the protection of animals and other living beings from being run over by trains and the monitoring of the track's integrity. Many lives can be spared if the affected area is promptly corrected.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kumar S., Kaviraj S., Kumar R. and Nagaarjunan T. (2025). Enhancing Animal Safety Measures by Avoiding Train Collisions Using Internet of Things (IoT) with Advanced Sensors Association. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and Development in Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies - Volume 1: ICRDICCT`25; ISBN 978-989-758-777-1, SciTePress, pages 680-687. DOI: 10.5220/0013871300004919

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icrdicct`2525,
author={S. Kumar and S. Kaviraj and R. Kumar and T. Nagaarjunan},
title={Enhancing Animal Safety Measures by Avoiding Train Collisions Using Internet of Things (IoT) with Advanced Sensors Association},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and Development in Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies - Volume 1: ICRDICCT`25},
year={2025},
pages={680-687},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013871300004919},
isbn={978-989-758-777-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and Development in Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies - Volume 1: ICRDICCT`25
TI - Enhancing Animal Safety Measures by Avoiding Train Collisions Using Internet of Things (IoT) with Advanced Sensors Association
SN - 978-989-758-777-1
AU - Kumar S.
AU - Kaviraj S.
AU - Kumar R.
AU - Nagaarjunan T.
PY - 2025
SP - 680
EP - 687
DO - 10.5220/0013871300004919
PB - SciTePress