Bidirectional Alarm Equipment for Protection for Trackside Worker using Bone-anchored Speaker

  • Hwang, Jong-Gyu (Train Control & Telecommunication Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute) ;
  • Jo, Hyun-Jeong (Train Control & Telecommunication Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
  • Received : 2011.02.28
  • Accepted : 2011.05.27
  • Published : 2011.06.30

Abstract

Personnel maintaining or repairing the railway tracks or signaling facilities around tracks may experience the sensory disorder when doing maintenance works at the trackside of railway for long time. In this case personnel maintaining at the trackside may collide with the train since they cannot recognize the approach of motor-car although it approaches to the vicinity of maintenance workplace because of the sensory block phenomenon occurred due to their long hours of continued monotonous maintenance work. In order to prevent such motor-car accidents that may occur because railway track workers are unable to recognize the approaching train, the safety alarm equipment is developed to make the approaching motor-car send radio signals and bidirectional detection mechanism between approaching train and trackside personnel. It shows the possibility of utilization in various forms of safety equipment for workers only to the safety helmet to be worn by the maintenance workers while using the configuration of transmitting/receiving sides. In the paper it is represented new alarm equipment, which is the bone-anchored speaker-based safety helmet to be worn by the maintenance workers.

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