PROJECT TI TL E

AN INDUSTRY DEFINED PROBLEM REPORT (IDP PART-1) SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF

DIPLOMA ENGINEERING IN ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION

SUBMITTED BY NAME
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ENROLLMENT NO
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N.B.PATEL POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE, PILUDARA

YEAR 2011

EXTERNAL GUIDE
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INTERNAL GUIDE
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INDEX
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ACKNOELWDGEMENT ABSTRACT FLOW OF WORK THE SYSTEM/THE PROTOTYPE MAJOR COMPONENTS/MAJOR TOOLS REFERNCES/METHODOLOGY ADOPTED APPLICATIONS,LIMITATIONS & CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We take this opportunity to humbly express our thankfulness to all those concerned with our project entitled Digital Weighing Scale (DWS). We express very sincere thanks to Mr. EXT. GUIDE for providing us an opportunity to work on such an interesting project, without whose help we could not have completed it satisfactorily. His invaluable guidance has proved to be a key tour success in overcoming challenges we faced during the course of the project work. Moreover, we express our deep sense of gratitude to Mr. INT. GUIDE, Lecturer, EC department, N B PATEL POLTTECHNIC, PILUDARA for rendering her aid also deserve our sincere thanks.

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

HP ELECTRONICS is a registered SSI unit and specializes in Developing and Manufacturing Embedded Electronic Instruments for various industries of INDIA. The company has over 25 years of experience in producing electronics products. It is a professionally managed unit promoted by MR.HEMANG VYAS, B.Sc. and AMIEE (LONDON).He is the founder of the company and also heads the HP ELECTRONICS group companies.

Products & forth-coming projects:

IR-sensor/detector based projectile velocity computer-Ballistic applications Microcontroller based time/count input sequence controllers-industrial applications Design development & technology transfer of commercial products Electronic milk Weighing Machine Intelligent data converter RS232/RS485/RS422 CNC machine tools-modules/PCBs Electronic Voting Machine LPG Gas Automation

ABSTRACT
The aim of this project titled Digital Weighing Scale (DWS) is to make a portable, low cost, low power, compact device that can measure the weight of the object placed on the sensible area of the system & to display the calibrated value on the LCD. The weighing scale is a measuring instrument that determines the weight and mass of the object. Using Digital weighing scales involves electronic equipments like Microcontroller based design and user friendly digital display like seven segment or LCD or OLED etc. In such sophisticated digital weighing scales one can provide different units of the weights like gm, Kg, Pound etc with proper calibration required by the sensor used. The use of a Digital Weighing-Scale (DWS) using the reference design discussed offers a solution to ready-to-use and easily scalable to measure low to high-capacity loads. A high-resolution Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) external or internal to the microcontroller can be used to accurately measure the load cell output. Here as the primary purpose is low cost & small size system design; so we will use the microcontroller which provides ADC, crystal & many features inbuilt & simultaneously the open source tool chain. By using sensors like strain gauges or load cells or any compact precision sensor DWS can be used as a postal scale, glossary scale, body weight scale, luggage weight measurement, calibrated scale and jewelry scale and so on.

FLOW OF WORK
To understand the Industry Defined Problem report (IDP part-1) mentioned by GTU To make groups of students in the class for the project To make a list of the electronics companies and their contact details available in Gujarat To divide the selected companies among the students of the group To make telephonic/e-mail contact with companies and ask for the training Deciding the company and getting NOC from the college for training purpose Getting the problem definition and title from internal or internal project guide or from surveying Completing the formalities disclosing IDP part-1 details Gathering information about the project from internet, magazine, books etc Deciding the features for the prototype To prepare report for IDP part-1 as per scheme Showing the same to internal and external guides To Make suggested corrections and submit the soft copy and the hard copy of the document to the internal guide Finding the required and the best available hardware and software tools To learn to use the tools Practicing the programming and circuit simulation Designing the circuit and the PCB if feeling tough to build the same on GPB Making the code and the software setup Finding the bugs on simulator and solving if found Making Power Point Presentation and the detailed report of the project Giving presentations in the college Combining all the hardware and software modules on one simulator for the prototype if possible Calculating the cost of the prototype To buy the components Finding the alternate of the component if the one is not easily available To start building hardware or ordering PCB if prepared Finding the bugs on actual setup and solving the same if found To present whole prototype in front of internal and external guide