Automatic Train Tracking and Announcement System

In many of the developing countries, the railway passengers are facing the issues during their long-distance train journey such as identifying the arrival station, identifying train platform number. Because of these issues passengers need keep more attention with fear to find whether the train is reached the destination or not. Sometimes, the passengers may get down in the wrong destination. Similarly, during departure of the journey, passengers miss the train or may get the wrong train because they unable find the platform number of their train. Also in many developed countries, the above issues are sorted by using technologies, but the entire system is not fully automatic and manual processes are involved or there will various mobile, or web applications are used. So, this paper focusing on the development an automatic electronic system for train tracking, announcing the platform number of train and alerting the user through audio announcement and sending alert SMS to the passengers when they nearing the station like 3 km away from their arrival station.