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 International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management (IJAEM)
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Design and Development of a Smart

Wireless Electronic Notice Board System
Mulugeta Tegegn Gemeda1* Ayane Lebeta Goshu1,
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Mohammednur Worku Sherif2, and Leta Lebeta Goshu2*
*,1Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jimma Institute of Technology, Jimma University,
Ethiopia.
2
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jimma Institute of Technology, Jimma University, Ethiopia.
2*
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama,
Ethiopia.
Corresponding Author: Mulugeta Tegegn Gemeda

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Submitted: 01-09-2021 Revised: 09-09-2021 Accepted: 12-09-2021
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ABSTRACT:For a long time, paper-based notice A notice board is a place where people can
boards have been widely used in the government leave public messages to advertise things,
and private organizations, school areas to share announce events or provide updated information in
information among the customer. However, using any organization [1]. For a long time, manual
traditional (paper-based) techniques is a wastage of (paper-based) notice boards have been used by
paper and paper-ink and human power. As a result, posting the paper on building walls or the prepared
it is a time-consuming method and also it is not board made from wood. However, using these
cost-effective. Therefore, to mitigate the techniques is; (1) wastage of paper and paper ink
aforementioned drawback, in this paper the design and human power due to posting thus, it is not cost-
and development of a smart wireless electronic effective, (2) it minimizes the appearances of the
notice board are presented. The system is designed building wall and then it harms the environment
using a GSM module, Bluetooth module, ardiuno since the papers will be discarded after use, lastly,
microcontroller, LCD, Buzzer, and LED. The (3) it takes much time to reach the receiver because
circuit diagram and its functionality has been of the process of printing and posting paper hence
validated using the Proteus simulator. Based on the it is not time effective [2].
distance, the user of the proposed system can select Therefore, all these limitations are very
one of the two approaches, are GSM modem-based serious issues because there may be information
and Bluetooth module-based approaches. The loss as well as time and energy. Nowadays people
simulation and the hardware implementation of the from different parts of the globe need to
proposed system are successfully achieved. From communicate with one another in fractions of
the result it has been realized that the proposed seconds using wireless communication. Therefore,
system is only accessed by authenticated users, it replacing those manual notices boards using
isa cost-effective system and very easy to handle. wireless notice boards is currently required. A
Besides, the latency involved in using papers in wireless electronic notice board is possible through
displaying notices is avoided. Therefore, the embedded systems. Being a wireless-based system
proposed system has many upcoming applications, offers flexibility to display flash news or
as it can be set up at educational institutions and announcements faster than the manual or
organizations, public transport places like railways, traditional system [3].
bus stations, airports, at the roadside for traffic In general, intending to improve overall
control, and advertisements purpose. system performance and limitation of manual
KEYWORDS:ATmega328Microcontroller, notice board, various works have employed GSM-
Bluetooth module, GSM module, Liquid crystal based wireless display systems such as SMS voting
display, MAX232, Notice Board. system, mobile operated robot, SMS based
education system, and SMS based security system,
I. INTRODUCTION which can be summarized as follows. The authors

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of the study cited in [4] proposed sending a Especially, GSM module-based by developing
message to a Digital Monitor through a Raspberry android applications. Therefore, in this paper, the
Pi card from an authenticated PC. Wi-Fi is used for design and implementation of an integrated GSM
data transfer in the article. We can add, remove, or modem and Bluetooth module-based wireless
change the wording at any moment to meet our electronics notice board has been proposed, which
needs. For sending notices, a transmitter-authorized is the novelty of this work.
PC is used. The Wi-Fi is connected to the Therefore, the main aim of this article is to
Raspberry Pi on the receiving end. The notice is design and implement a wireless electronic notice
received by the receiver when it is sent by an board that is suitable for both far and near the user.
authorized user from his system. Wireless is a Besides, to increase the system security of wireless
common technology that allows an electronic notice board by developing android applications for
device to send and receive data via a computer GSM and Bluetooth modules. In general to
network, including high-speed wireless mitigated manual notice board performance
connections. The information comes from a limitation. Another part of the document is
verified user. organized as follows. Sections present the proposed
Using a liquid crystal display (LCD), a design and working principle. The simulation
receiver, decoder, microcontroller, and dot matrix, results and discussion is given in section three.
a wireless electronic notice board was established Section four describes the result of the hardware
at University Malaysia Pahang in [5]. Paper cited in implementations. Finally, the conclusion is
[6] describes the design and implementation of presented in section five.
multiple LED display boards using an AT89S52
microcontroller, a GSM module, an LCD, and II. PROPOSED DESIGN AND
many moving LED displays.The authors of [7] WORKING PRINCIPLE
built a wireless electronic display board utilizing The designed system has two sections (i.e.
GSM technology and displayed the message on the transmitting and receiving Sections) as indicated in
display board using various AT instructions. The Figure 1. The transmitting section is composed of a
GSM technology was utilized in the article to mobile phone which has inbuilt by GSM and
control the display board and to transmit Bluetooth module. The receiver section consists of
information via a message sent from an a GSM module, HC-05 Bluetooth module, Arduino
authenticated source. Microcontroller, Buzzer, LED, and LCD. As far as
Likewise, [8] built an SMS-based wireless the time is concerned with technology, the
notice board display utilizing a GSM phone. [9] designed project is implemented to fulfill the safety
describes the hardware implementations of a GSM- requirements of the users. In this system, the
based scrolling message display board with 7X96 authorized user can send an SMS message to notify
Light Emitting Diode (LED) and dot matrix. In the user without any physical movement. These can
[10s] also shows a smart notice board that uses be done using GSM modem-based approaches for
GSM communication to display messages on the far users and Bluetooth modem-based approaches
notice board from the user's cell phone.In [11] for near users.
Bluetooth-based electronic notice board has been In the first approach, The GSM modem is
proposed. In the paper, the system has been first properly initialized and then it checks for
designed using GSM and Bluetooth, LCD, modem connectivity. The Arduino microcontroller
regulator, and rectifier. Similarly, in [12] a system is programmed to send a fixed AT command to the
through wireless transmit announcements on a module. The AT commands are used to check the
notice board using Wi-Fi has been proposed. The communication with the module. It returns a result
Wi-Fi can pass information for about a hundred- code OK if the module and the controller are
meter distance Wi-Fi data rate has 1 or 2Mbps. It connected properly. Then the user can send an
accesses several points and to care network SMS message to notify the user. The developed
interfaces. It also makes the system well-matched android application is to authorize the user of the
with more than one cellular technology. system and for the security of SIM card in the
In general, it can be realized from the GSM modem. The operation of this application is
above literature, various design of a wireless notice that at the initial moment all authorized user
board system have been proposed. However, in passcode is stored in the database of the system.
most of the paper, they have used GSM and For example, when an authorized user wants to
Bluetooth modules separately to provide access for send an SMS text message; first, the android
far and near the user. Besides, the security of the application checks the passcode of the user by
system is not yet considered in the system. getting the necessary information from the database
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of the system. Then if the user’s passcode is passcode is not registered in the database of the
registered in the database of the system, he/she can system, the application closes the system by saying
send an SMS text message to the system by using access is denied for this passcode.
this android application. Otherwise, if the user’s

Figure 1. Circuit Diagram of the Overall System.

Figure 2. Block Diagram along with Developed an Android Application for GSM Security.

In the Bluetooth module approach, the

user enters the user name and password of the
developed android application. If the user name
and password of the application are correct, the text
field is open for the user to write an SMS text
message to be sent to the Bluetooth module in
which the module forward received message to
Arduino microcontroller and then to display unit to
notify the user. If the user name and password are
not correct, the application never opens the text
field to allow the user to enter the message.

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Figure 3. Block Diagram along with Developed Android Application for the Bluetooth Module.

III. SIMULATION RESULTS AND board displays the default message. In this case, it
DISCUSSION is “sending SMS to notice board”. From this it
In this section, simulation results and can be observed that transmitters and receiver ports
discussion is explained. Therefore, to implement of GSM, Bluetooth modules, and LCDs are in the
the hardware of the proposed system, the system active state i.e., the GSM and the Bluetooth
performance has been verified using a proteus modules can transmit and receive a text from the
simulator. Figure 4 shows the primary condition of authorized user. This status occurs after the HEX
the system on proteus software. Initially, when file of the Arduino microcontroller and GSM
power is switched on and all the modules are kept modem is loaded to the system. The black screen
ready, as there is no message is sent to the GSM on the left side is a virtual terminal, which is used
modem or Bluetooth module from the sender, the to show the status of the overall system.

Figure 4. The Initial Status of Simulation.

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Immediately, after the AT+CMGR executed in the GSM and the commands executed
command is executed (see Figure 5), the AT in the arduino microcontroller are passed into the
command is displayed on the virtual terminal. display board. Now, the entire system waiting for
Afterward, the command AT+CMGR is executed the condition to receive a new message from the
in the GSM module the message is transferred to transmitter. Thus, the authorized users can send
the arduino microcontroller serially. The GSM is SMS text messages to be displayed on board
connected to an arduino microcontroller board wirelessly. However, depending on the distance
through TX and RX pins. The LCD board is between the user and displaying unit the user can
connected to the arduino microcontroller board by select GSM or Bluetooth module-based methods of
its output pins directly. The virtual terminal displaying messages.
windows on the left side show the commands

Figure 5. Virtual terminals displaying AT command.

IV. RESULT OF HARDWARE assigned to the individual user. If the user passcode
IMPLEMENTATIONS is correct, the text field is opened and allows the
This section presents the hardware user to type the text to be displayed. When the
implementation of the proposed system design transmitter clicks on send button the SMS text is
based on the system circuit revealed in Figure 1. received by the Bluetooth module. On the next, the
The developed wireless electronic notice board can microcontroller read the text message serially from
be viewed strictly without any specific locations. the module, then forward it to LCD to notify the
For the fact that the notice board program runs on a concerning body. For instance, if the authorized
mobile phone connected by cellular networks and (after all process is checked) person wants to send a
Bluetooth module to send the test message from an text message which is “we are group 3”, all the
authenticated user. The procedure for implementing above steps are checked and verified, the SMS of
the wireless electronics notice board in this paper the authorized personis received by Bluetooth
has two approaches which have been given below. module, and forwarded to microcontroller then
4.1. Bluetooth Module Based Wireless Notice displayed on LCD which is the same as a sent
Board message from a mobile phone by using Bluetooth
To implement this technique, first, the application.
developed android application is installed on the
chosen user devices. The Phone number of the
selected user is registered and the passcode is
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Figure 6. Received and Sent Message Using Bluetooth Module Display System.

4.2. GSM Modem Based Wireless Notice Board to receive an SMS text, the LCD displays the
The step to use this approach can be stated default message in the setting in this case it is
as, first the presence of the user phone number will “JIMMA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ECE” as
be checked in the database using a developed indicated in Figure 7 (left side). For instance, the
android application, if the number is registered, the authorized person wants to display a text message
user can send the SMS text to the GSM. Next, the “we have meeting” the user writes an SMS
arduino microcontroller reads the text serially from message on the text field.After all process of the
the GSM and then forwards the text to the LCD for system is completed, the sent is displayed on LCD
display. At this time the Buzzer starts sounding to at receiver side which is the same as the message
notify the user arrival of the new message. sent from mobile phone see right side of Figure 7.
Therefore, after the system is initialized and ready

Figure 7. Default Message on LCD (top) and Received and Transmitted Message (bottom).

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