Efficient Solution to Avoid Overcrowding in Local Train Compartments

Abstract

Taking public transport into consideration the seething crowd of India follows no or negligible discipline resulting in fatal accidents and mishaps. If people are provided with live information of the crowd, they can plan their journey accordingly with a prior knowledge of the vacancies at that moment. This paper intends to solve the problem of overcrowding by providing a real time system that will efficiently monitor the people count in every local compartment using ToF sensors. It uses Arduino and Ethernet to retrieve and transmit data respectively from sensors at the client side to the railway server system of the platform.