Single or Multi electronic notice boards with operating distance up to

1000meters using RS485 protocol

Notice boards play a vital role mostly in educational institutions. The events, occasions or
any news, which has to be passed to the students, will be written on the notice boards
present in every floor in the colleges or schools. The present system is like, a person will
be told the news and he has to update this news on all the notice boards present in the
college or school. This will be seen mostly during the examination seasons.

The time table or the schedule of the exams has to be given to the students. This will be
done by writing the details on the notice boards. But this process consumes a lot time to
update the news on all the notice boards and there may be chances that the person
responsible may commit some mistakes or he may be absent sometimes. So, this may
create disturbances and the entire schedule may be disturbed. To avoid all these,
electronic Notice Board have been designed which completely eliminates the manual
work.
Here we are using RS48. It is an alternative for RS-232 for long distance. RS-232 only
up to 15m. but in MAX 485 up to 1500m limit. in addition we connect up to 32 devices.
If your control system needs to receiving and sending data in the same time you must
use full duplex transmission mode. It is possible (and in real world this is the most
popular case) that control system first sends request message to ROV (e.g. get
temperature) and than waits for the response. In this scenario, there is no possibility that
control system and ROV sends data in the same time, so half duplex communication is
sufficient. For full duplex communication you need 4 wires, for half duplex only 2
wires. MAX485 is providing half duplex mode. If you need to use full duplex you must
use 2 units (or full duplex chip).

PC is interfaced to the transmitter section to type the data and transmit. The message can
be transmitted to multi point receivers. At any time, the user can add or change the
message according to his requirement. At the receiver side, the message will be displayed
on the LCD display unit.
APPLICATIONS :

1. Multiple transceiver application.

2. Low power application.

3. Long distance capability up to 1.5 kms

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE TOOLS:

Software Tools:
1. Keil compiler
2. Orcad.
3. Proload

Hardware Tools:
1. AT89C52
2. LCD
3. MAX485
4. MAX232
5. PC
6. POWERSUPPLY
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