Project Report
Project Report
FIRE ALARM
A PROJECT REPORT
Submitted by
CB.EN.U4ECE15035 Mouli.k
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
IN
COIMBATORE 641112
APRIL 2018
CB.EN.U4ECE15035 Mouli.k
is a bonafide record of the work carried out as a part of OPEN LAB during VI Semester of
Academic year 2017 to 2018 in the Department of ECE, Amrita School of Engineering,
Coimbatore.
Internal Examiner
FIRE ALARM
AIM:-
To detect the fire we used a NTC thermistor whose resistance decreases as the temperature
increases we are using a voltage divider circuit which is connected to the 5V which we get
from arduino and the voltage at the common point of the NTC and resistor is given to
arduino as a input ,basing on the voltage values the arduino decides whether there is a fire
accident or not.
Methodology/Algorithm:-
Figure:-1(Block Diagram)
Initially , we have to detect temperature, this is done by using NTC Thermistor .NTC
Thermistor is a special type of resistor that has higher resistance of about 100k ohms at
lower temperature i.e 0 degree and as the temperature increases this resistance decreases
Characterization of Thermistor :
In this method , we are finding the resistances of the thermistor (the sensor we are
using to determine the temperature) . This can be done by dipping the head of the
thermistor inside a flask containing normal water . we should also dip the thermometer
inside the flask in order to check the temperature of the water when we start the heating
process . Now we are heating the water and the temperature increases rapidly . By using
multimeter we are checking the resistances of the thermistor for the corresponding
temperature . As we are using NTC thermistor we can clearly see the resistances decrease
with increase in temperature . As soon as the temperature reached about 70K (because the
maximum temperature to sense whether fire is there or not will not be more than 55K) we
turned off the flask and let it to cool down . While the water was cooling we are calculating
the resistances between 50K – 40K more precisely . So by the values we got we drew a
temperature versus resistance graph . Thus we characterized the sensor we used . By the
same procedure we did it for the rest of the two thermistors.
Figure:- 2 temperature versus Resistance
Figure:-5 Thermistor
Details of Thermistor
Arduino UNO:-
The Arduino UNO is ATmega328 datasheet based microcontroller that has 6 analog
inputs, 8 digital outputs and 6 PWM outputs. It has a reset button and 16 MHz ceramic
resonator with a USB connection facility along with a power jack.
INPUT/OUTPUT:-
Figure:-9
RESULTS AND INFERENCES:-
Using the thermistor as a sensor and aurdino as a processer the fire alarm is efficiently working.
CONCLUSION:-
The fire alarm was successfully designed using thermistor and buzzer and its working is
successfully tested