International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering
Website: www.ijetae.com (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal, Volume 3, Issue 12, December 2013)
Android Based Appliances Control System
Belgi Y.G.1, Avatade P.G.2, Deshmukh P.V.3, Sakhare A.M.4, Shinde A.J.5 and Prof. Patil J.M.6
1, 2, 3,4,5,6
Department of EXTC Engineering, BMIT College Sholapur, Sholapur University, India
Abstract As the world gets more and more
technologically advanced, we find new technology coming in
deeper and deeper into our personal lives even at home. Home
automation is becoming more popular around the world and
is becoming a common practice. The process of home
automation works by making everything in the house
automatically controlled using technology to control and do
the jobs that we would normally do manually. Our project
illustrates Appliance Control System accessed by a remote
device such as mobile phone to allow owner to control,
monitor and coordinate the appliances.
Keywords Android Operating System (AOS), Bluetooth,
Remote Devices, Home Automation.
I. INTRODUCTION
This project is a fine combination of Android mobile
technology and embedded system. An application should
be installed on android mobile handset to control various
home appliances. User can send commands using that
application. Wireless controlling technique used in this
project is Bluetooth technology. This Bluetooth device is
connected to the circuit which sends code for respective
command sent by user. Then the respective device
connected to the circuit will be turned on or off depending
on the command given. [1, 2]
The system contains two units, one is process unit &
other is monitoring unit. Process unit consists of PIC
microcontroller, Bluetooth for communication, LCD for
display, dimmer circuit for appliance controlling. Monitor
unit consists of Smart phone. Using smart phone, we can
switch devices ON/OFF, also control fan speed.
The system has been developed and implemented as
described in this paper is capable to control fan speed and
light intensity. [4, 5]
II. IMPLEMENTATION
A. Android
A Smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile
operating system, with more advanced computing
capability and connectivity than a feature phone. Android is
a software stack for mobile devices that includes an
operating system, middleware and key applications.
Android, by simple definition, is an operating system for
many mobile phones.
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Android is a customizable platform that can look and
feel very different on every different handsets. Android
gives us tools for creating apps that looks great and take
more advantage of the hardware capabilities available on
each device. Android is mainly based on Linux operating
system which uses java- like languages for running
applications. The purpose of use of android in our project is
to send the control signals from smart phone through
Bluetooth. [3]
B. PIC Microcontroller
PIC microcontroller can be used as the brain to control
a large variety of products, in order to control large
devices. It is necessary to interface (connect) them to the
microcontroller. In our project we have used PIC16F877
which is 8 bit, RISC type, 40 pin IC. This PIC will differ
from other PICs because of the features like 10 bit, 8
channels inbuilt ADC, inbuilt PWM, one 8 bit USART,
three timers.[4]
In our project the microcontroller communicates with
the Bluetooth module through its TX and RX pins. The
serial control command send through the smart phone is
received by the Bluetooth module and processed by PIC
microcontroller. The corresponding port pins are enabled to
switch on appliances. A 12MHz crystal connected between
pins 13 and 14 along with two 33pF capacitors provides the
basic clock frequency to microcontroller.
C. Bluetooth module
Bluetooth was selected as our way of communicating
mobile with a central system. Bluetooth module receives
the data serially in RS232 format from controller and sends
it to wireless network. For interfacing it with
microcontroller we need to build the circuit because
Bluetooth module understands data in RS232 standard and
controller understands data in TTL format. So we need to
design circuit to make these two compatible with each
other.
Bluetooth module we are using is LM400 from LM
technology. LM400 is designed to provide Bluetooth
2.0+EDR function on small form factor. The Bluetooth
function is based on CSR blue core 4-EXT Bluetooth
system, which implements the full speed class 1 Bluetooth
operations with full seven slave piconet support. [5]
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Fig.1. Bluetooth Module

D. Dimmer circuit
Dimmer are devices used to vary the brightness of a
light, by decreasing or increasing the RMS voltage. It is Fig.3.Block Diagram of Dimmer Ckt.
possible to vary the intensity of light and speed of fan by
using the number of types of dimmers. Modern dimmers III. BLOCK DIAGRAM
are built from silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) instead of
variable resistor, because they have higher efficiency. Since Power supply
silicon controlled rectifier switches between a low
resistance ON state and a high resistance OFF state, it
dissipates very little power compared with the controlled
load. Dimmer circuit is based on SCR control circuit which
is used in lightning control and fan speed control.[7]

Fig.4. Block Diagram Of Power Supply

Process unit
The Process unit will consist of microcontroller, LCD to
see the process of the project, Bluetooth module, used to
communicate with Android Phone. With respect to
received settings we can ON or OFF the appliances.
The Monitor unit will consist of Smart Phone with
Bluetooth module and Android. Using smart phone, we can
control the home appliances & it will be send to process
unit. [7]
Fig.2.Circuit Diagram of Dimmer Ckt.

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Fig.5.Block Diagram of Process Unit

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