RailMon: Distance, Temperature and Location Railway Monitoring Using IoT Technologies

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology and have great potential to be applied in critical environments. In that regard, IoT is a remarkable solution to the challenge of collecting data from physical environments, thanks to their flexibility, low cost and ease of deployment. It has always been a dependent factor for early alert signals for the possibility of unforeseen technical issues that may occur within the mass transport networks. Our proposed infrastructure, called “RailMon” and based on IoT, is able to detect either rail track damages due to unbearable temperature or determine fixed object in a far-away distance in a railway network. Thus, an early warning system is deployed to avoid unforeseen fatal accidents.