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International Journal on Emerging Technologies (Special Issue NCETST-2017) 8(1): 172-175(2017)

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ISSN No. (Print) : 0975-8364
ISSN No. (Online) : 2249-3255

Automatic Room Light Controller with Visitor Counter

Anjali Sinha1, Arpita Singh1, Deepa Singh1, Parul Singh1 , Anil Maurya1 and Mahesh Kumar Singh2
1
Department of ECE, Buddha Institute of Technology, Gorakhpur, (Uttar Pradesh), INDIA
2
Assistant Professor, Department of ECE,
Buddha Institute of Technology, Gorakhpur, (Uttar Pradesh), INDIA
ABSTRACT: This paper is written to enhance the use of resources in developed as well as developing
countries. In this digital world, use of technology is very advanced and we prefer things to be done
automatically without any human efforts. This project also helps to reduce human efforts. Also it is very
useful to conserve resources. In today's world, there is a continuous need for automatic appliances. With the
increase in standard of living, there is a sense of urgency for developing circuits that would ease the
complexity of life. Also if at all one wants to know the number of people present in room so as not to have
congestion, this circuit proves to be helpful. "Automatic room light controller with visitor counter" is a
reliable circuit that takes over the task of controlling the room lights as well us counting number of persons/
visitors in the room very accurately.
INDEX TERMS— ARM7 LPC2148 MICROCONTROLLER, DC MOTOR, LCD, SENSOR
I. INTRODUCTION the room then the counter is incremented by one and the
light in the room will be switched ON and when any one
In today’s world, there is a continuous need for
leaves the room then the counter is decremented by one.
automatic appliances. With the increase in standard of
The light will be only switched OFF until all the persons
living, there is a sense of urgency for developing circuits
in the room go out. The total number of persons inside
that would ease the complexity of life. Also if at all one
the room is also displayed on the LCD.
wants to know the number of people present in room so
The microcontroller does the above job. It receives
as not to have congestion, this circuit proves to be
the signals from the sensors, and this signal is operated
helpful. Automatic Room Light Controller with Visitor
under the control of program which is stored in ROM.
Counter is a reliable circuit that takes over the task of
Microcontroller continuously monitor the Infrared
controlling the room lights as well us counting number
Receivers. When any object pass through the IR
of persons/ visitors in the room very accurately.
Receiver's then the IR Rays falling on the receivers are
Electricity is one of the most important
obstructed. This obstruction is sensed by the
resources in this century. We should conserve the
Microcontroller. However, it implies the possibility that
electricity. But many times we come outside the
inconvenience of users can be bigger because of
room/hall and forget to turn off the lights/fan, thus the
frequent light on/off, and dark indoor environment, etc.
electricity is wasted. To overcome this we are going to
whereas the energy saving effect becomes larger.
implement a project called “Automatic room light
controller with visitor counter”. This project has 2 II. DEVICE AND IMPLEMENTATION
modules. First module is “Visitor counter” and the other
The block diagram for the proposed system is shown
module is “Automatic room light controller”. Main
which consists of arm microcontroller (lpc2148), LED
concept behind this project is to measure and display the
lighting system, alphanumeric LCD, IR Sensor
number of persons entering in any room like seminar
(transmitter and receiver).
hall, conference room. And when number of persons
inside the room is zero, power supply inside the room 1. Transmitter: We are going to implement the Person
will be turned off. This will help to save electricity. counter module using two transmitters and two
LCD display placed outside the room displays number receivers. We are going to use Infra-Red transmitters
of person inside the room. When somebody enters into
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because infrared beams are not visible to human eyes.
Transmitters used are IR LEDs.

Fig. 2. LPC2148 BOARD.

Fig. 1. Block Diagram. Due to their tiny size and low power consumption,
LPC2148 are ideal for applications where
2. Receiver: We are going to use an Infrared receiver. It miniaturization is a key requirement, such as access
is an active low device which means it gives low output control and point-of-sale. A blend of serial
when it receives the Infrared rays. So when the IR rays communications interfaces ranging from a USB 2.0 Full
are interrupted by any person then microcontroller will Speed device, multiple UARTs, SPI, SSP to I2CS and
receive a high pulse from the IR receiver. on-chip SRAM of 8 kb up to 40 kb make these devices
3. ARM7TDMIS: This is the CPU (central processing very well suited for communication gateways and
unit) of our project. Microcontroller is the heart of this protocol converters, soft modems, voice recognition and
system. Some points of this microcontroller is used for low end imaging, providing both large buffer size and
the programming purpose. We are going to use a high processing power. Various 32-bit timers, single or
microcontroller named LPC2148. The LPC2148 are dual 10-bit ADC(s), 10-bit DAC, PWM channels and 45
based on a 16/32 bit ARM7TDMI-S™ CPU with fast GPIO lines with up to nine edge or level sensitive
real-time emulation and embedded trace support, external interrupt pins make these microcontroller
together with 128/512 kilobytes of embedded high particularly suitable for industrial control and medical
speed flash memory. systems.
4. LCD: A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel IR Sensor. IR sensors are used to produce IR waves. It
display or other electronic visual display that uses the consists of IR Transmitter and IR receiver. IR sensor
light-modulating properties of liquid crystals. A 2x16 works on infrared waves, the module comprises of one
LCD has 2 rows and 16 columns and it can display a IR led (Transmitter) and one photodiode (Receiver).
maximum of 32 characters. Liquid Crystal Display Module consists of 3 pins namely GND, VCC (+5V)
screen is an electronic display module and find a wide and SIG pin provides the TTL value based on the
range of applications. A 16x2 LCD display is very basic reference voltage set. It also consists of a potentiometer
module and is very commonly used in various devices which can be adjusted to vary the reference voltage
and circuits. hence varying its range and accuracy. An infrared sensor
III. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION circuit is one of the basic and popular sensor module in
an electronic device. This sensor is analogous to
The system technical specifications consist of two main human’s visionary senses, which can be used to detect
categories- Hardware specifications and Software obstacles and it is one of the common applications in
specifications as listed below: real-time.
A. Hardware Specifications
Arm7 lpc2148 microcontroller: LPC2148 is the widely
used IC from ARM-7 family. The LPC2148
microcontrollers are based on a 32/16 bit ARM7TDMI-
S which is shown in fig.2 with real-time emulation and
embedded trace support, that combines the
microcontroller with embedded high speed flash
memory ranging from 32 kb to 512 kb. A 128-bit wide
memory interface and a unique accelerator architecture
enable 32-bit execution at maximum clock rate.
Fig. 3. IR Sensor.
i. 2x16 LCD. A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-
panel display or other electronic visual display that uses
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the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals. A Proteus is used for simulation of hardware. The
2x16 LCD has 2 rows and 16 columns and it can display Proteus Design Suite is an Electronic Design
a maximum of 32 characters. In this LCD each character Automation (EDA) tool including schematic capture,
is displayed in 5x7 pixel matrix. simulation and PCB Layout modules. It is mainly
popular because of availability of almost all
microcontrollers in it.
IV. WORKING

Fig. 4. LCD.
L293D (MOTOR DRIVER IC).
It converts direct current electrical power into
mechanical power. It can drive 2 motor at a time &
bidirectional. This device is suitable for use in switching
applications at frequencies up to 5 kHz. The L293D is
assembled in a 16 lead plastic package which has 4
center pins connected together and used for heat
sinking.L293D is a typical Motor driver or Motor Driver
IC which allows DC motor to drive on either direction.
L293D is a 16-pin IC which can control a set of two DC
motors simultaneously in any direction. It means that
you can control two DC motor with a single L293D IC.
L293D works on the concept on H-bridge.

If the sensor 1 is interrupted first then the

microcontroller will look for the sensor 2. And if it is
interrupted then the microcontroller will increment the
count.
When the first person enter the room then the counter
goes to 1 and that time the FAN/LIGHT will turn on.
If the sensor 2 is interrupted first then the
Fig. 5. MOTOR DRIVER IC. microcontroller will look for the sensor 1. And if it is
interrupted then the microcontroller will decrement the
A. Software Specifications count.
The program is written in ‘C’ language and compiled When the last person leaves the room then counter goes
using Keil µVision4 compiler. This is an Integrated to 0 and that time the FAN/LIGHT will turn off.
Development Environment which is used for writing V. CONCLUSION
code for the LPC2148 microcontroller and compiling it.
Several C files are created for the project using this In our project, we have designed and implemented a Bi-
compiler. Directional Counter & Home Automation using the
Flash magic programmer is used to burn the hex file concept of Embedded System. The target users of the
generated by the Keil software onto the ARM processor. project can be any one right from a common man to any
The com port to which write is to be done is selected. organization. Lets say if any one uses our project for
Baud rate is set to a value of 9600. Interface is kept as Seminar Purpose then the track record of the persons
ISP. The oscillator frequency is kept to 12 MHz. The attending the seminar will give the exact idea about the
hex file is selected. Verify and programming verifies if no. of candidate attending and leaving the seminar and
the hex file is in proper form and then uploads it to accordingly the Project Model will control the
ARM after erasing the flash.
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