MONITORING KEAMANAN PERLINTASAN KERETA API MENGGUNAKAN ANDROID

MONITORING RAILWAY CROSSING SAFETY USING ANDROID (Umi Septiani; 2016; Pages:67) The number of railway passengers now is increasingly while the railway facilities in some places still inadequate, one of them is in the field of safety such as monitoring tool railway crossing, so that the postman find the difficult in monitoring railway crossing. Some accidents happen frequently such as postman’s failure in opening and closing railway crossing gate due to late information postman received concerning train arival. For the safety of the society, it is necessary to improve the facilities in the railway crossings that based on the development of technologies that exist now one of them based on Android. The monitor railway crossings tool is based on android using CCTV camera connected to a postman’s mobile phone via wifi connection. The sensor used is an infrared sensor that consists of several circuit blocks including infrared sensor block, microcontroller ATMega8535 block, power suppy block, relay block, and LED Indicators block. At first infrared sensor detects a train comes, then sends a signal to a microcontroller for receiving data to be processed, after the data is converted in the form of digital data, the microcontroller will send a command to output are in form of buzzer that will ring simultaneously with the closing of crossings and red light will turn on. While camera will turn on continuously so that the postman can monitor via mobile anytime. establishing this tool, is expected to reduce the rate of accidents at railway crossings and officers can also monitor railway crossings easily anywhere even if it is not in plac