Location finder using Augmented Reality for railways assistance

Currently, railways have been an influential transportation system in every country, including Indonesia. This transportation system moves people from one place to another in a large number of passengers. The railways have an advantage of traffic-free and relatively low cost. However, there are many train accidents occurred caused by several reasons. In Indonesia, a critical issue that causes the accidents is the absence of real time monitoring system. The monitoring system relies on radio communication among the operating railways and stations. This paper proposes a real-time railways monitoring system. This monitoring system includes real time data tracking of the current position of a train. The data will be displayed on a web site that can be monitored by train station officials. In addition, the system will notify candidate passengers should their train is approaching or having delays. To reach train station, if someone having difficulties in finding the station, this system has the feature of Augmented Reality (AR) that assists the passengers to find the stations he is about to take on the train. The navigation to search the station uses the current position of the passenger and the longitude and latitude of the station. To improve the accuracy of location decision on AR, we combine GLONASS and GPS that increases the accuracy of location acquiring by 919,8 %. Experiment results show that the AR technology successfully implemented using inclination angle and azimuth.