Railway track structural health monitoring system

Railway is one of the most used means of transportation. For the railway system to operate flawlessly constant monitoring and inspection of railway tracks is required. Currently railway track inspection and monitoring is done manually which is time taking and not accurate, due to the high chance of human error occurrence. Moreover, practically it is impossible to inspect and monitor the railway track manually as they run thousands of miles. To avoid this we propose a prototype system, designed for continuous monitoring of railway tracks using a combination of sensors. These sensors collect data and through computational analysis faults in the railway tracks are identified. The collected data can help in finding cracks in the tracks and catastrophic accidents can be avoided.