Volume 5, Issue 5, May – 2020 International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology

ISSN No:-2456-2165

Design of Automatic Hand Sanitizer with

Temperature Sensing
Abhinandan Sarkar
Faculty of Electronics
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Luthfaa Polytechnic Institute, Durgapur(W.B)

Abstract:- The design depicted shows the preventive India, one of the most promising countries in technology ,
measure that can be taken during the COVID-19 the labourers are rushing for a little piece of grain. The
pandemic in the whole world. Sanitizers have become starving faces reveal the pain. Industries are in losses ,
the most significant commodities right now. By the new workers are losing jobs, economical growth of the nation
rules and regulations given by WHO vigorous has taken a back seat , but it should be realised that a
sanitization is needed to survive. The design gave the regular monitoring of body temperature and periodical hand
solution for the problem stated. The design introduces sanitization can prevent the spread of the pandemic to the
an automatic hand sanitizer and temperature sensing masses.
system, to keep the hand sanitized whenever a person
wants to do it, without a contact with the sanitizing Keeping in mind, the situation worldwide, sanitization
machine. The temperature sensor on touching gives the commodities should be installed in each and every corner
body temperature of the person. of the sphere , be it an industry , a corporate office , an
educational institute or an shopping mall.
Keywords:- Automatic hand sanitizer, Arduino, ultrasonic
sensor, PIR sensors, TMP36, covid-19. In this research work , an automatic hand sanitizer
with temperature sensing design prototype has been made.
I. INTRODUCTION
II. OBJECTIVES
Since December 2019 the world is under tremendous
tension , the numbers are increasing day by day, and till With the above stated aspects , the design has been
date no vaccine has been full proved against the pandemic done for easy installation of the hardware in every possible
agent. Yes it is COVID-19, it was unknown to the race places across the globe .
before it outbroke in Wuhan, China. Being from a large
family , a continuous mutation is occurring , forbidding the The design encompasses few parameters to be
researchers, microbiologist , pharmaceuticals to draw the calculated and taken as priority, such as -
line of conclusion on the vaccine.  Installation of temperature sensor.
 Installation of LCD to display the sensed temperature.
Affecting the most prestigious countries in a chain ;  Installation of ultrasonic and PIR sensors.
China , Italy ,Spain , USA , India , Russia, [1] the virus has  Installation of spray pumps/submersible pumps.
proved it’s strength and subservient a technologically  Synchronizing all the sensors with Arduino UNO R3
enhanced race. The race of homo-sapiens. microcontroller.

The policies taken worldwide has lessen its affect to The circuit connection should be done minutely to
some extent but could not eradicate it. Lockdown has avoid any kind of fault while working of the device.
economically weaken many nations , and testing of
different medicines has also not proven to be satisfactory. Proper safety measure has been taken to overcome
The question now prevail is Life vs. Livelihood. The any kind of fault in consideration of over-voltage , short
weaker section of the society is facing the hardship due to circuit , excessive current flow etc.
vigorous lockdown across the nations. Seeing the picture of

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III. COMPONENTS

Table 1:- shows the components used while designing the project.

A. Component Description

 Arduino UNO R3 –
It is an open source microcontroller based computing
platform used for easy programming and synchronizing of
different analog and digital sensors and it is also capable of
sending and receiving data over the internet. It is built up
with 8-bit Atmel AVR or 32- bit Atmel ARM
microcontrollers. It provides a comfortable design Fig 2:- Ultrasonic Range Finder (PING SEN136B5B).
platforms for hobbyists , students and professional
designers[2]. Figure 1 shows the ARDUINO UNO R3  DC Motor/ Submersible Spray Pump –
pinout. The motor/pump is used to spray the sanitizer on the
hand after the sensors give required signal. It works at 3v.
Figure 3 shows a submersible spray pump.

Fig 3:- Submersible spray pump.

 LCD 16 × 2 –
It is a liquid crystal display module that produces
visible displays. It has 16 columns and 2 rows. Each
character is displayed in 5 × 7 pixel matrix.250 k ohm
potentiometer is used to maintain the contrast of the
display.220 ohm resistor is attached in anode terminal.[5].
Figure 4 shows a LCD 16 × 2.

Fig 1:- Pinout of ARDUINO UNO R3 . [3]

 Ultrasonic Range Finder (PING SEN136B5B) –

The sensor has a range of 3cm - 400 cm. The sensor
operates by transmitting an ultrasound and receiving the
echo as it bounces back against an obstacle after a certain
time and calculates the distance of the object
accordingly.[4] The sensors sends the ultrasound and
senses the echo with the same pin SIG. Figure 2 shows an
ultrasonic range finder(PING SEN136B5B).
Fig 4:- LCD 16 × 2.

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 Temperature Sensor [TMP36] –
The sensor works on the property of diode, as the
temperature changes in the diode the voltage also changes
at a constant rate. The analog input represents 0 as no
voltage and 1023 as 5v. According to the datasheet the
sensor will give output 0 – 1.75 V over a range of 175C( -
50 C- 125C ) that’s depicts every 0.01V = 1  . [6]. Figure
5 shows TMP36.

Pin 1 – input voltage , Pin 2 – signal out , Pin 3 –

ground.

Fig 7:- PIR Sensor.

 Piezo Buzzer –
It produces a tone when it is synchronized with other
sensors or it is made to produce tone for particular purpose.

Figure 8 shows a piezo buzzer.

Fig 5:- Temperature Sensor [TMP 36].

 LED RGB –
This led combines red , green , blue light to produce
16 million hues of light. But while operating in Arduino it
is difficult to produce maximum of it. Unlike normal led it
has four terminals, blue , green , cathode , red. Figure 6
shows RGB led.

Fig 8:- Piezo Buzzer.

 Bread Board –
It is a construction base used for making prototypes of
different electronic circuits. It is a solderless base that ease
in circuitry rectification. Figure 9 shows a bread board.

Fig 6:- RGB LED.

 PIR Sensor –
Passive Infrared Sensors are used to sense motion and
it almost detects human motion. The sensor is built using a
pyroelectric sensor ,it detects infrared signals , as every
living body emits some level of radiation. The sensor
divides the sensed signal into 2 halves, which is wired up,
to cancel out each other and as one part senses the signal
more or less, the output swings high or low.[7]. Figure 7 Fig 9:- Bread Board.
shows a PIR sensor.

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IV. PROCESS FLOW

Fig 10

V. METHODOLOGY
The sanitization is done simultaneously with the
As we switch on the device , the sensors attached to activation of the sensors , keeping the particular region
the Arduino gets activated. We have two systems to work sanitize and free from virus or bacteria or any infectious
simultaneously to each other. First the automatic sanitizer agents.
and secondly the contacted temperature sensing.
The temperature sensor senses the body temperature
The ultrasonic sensor and PIR sensor is attached to the of the person as soon as it is touched, and displays the
Arduino for detection of human/object ranging and motion temperature in F in the lcd display(as it is programmed to
respectively. convert C to F). If the temperature sensed is above the
normal body temperature( 98.6  F) the buzzer starts
PIR sensor has a range of around 5m – 12m and any alarming and the RGB led attached turns red, if the sensed
detection in the specified range will activate the sanitizer value of the sensor is equal or below 98.6  F then the
and it will sanitize the surroundings with activation of spray buzzer is off and the RGB led is green. Depicting a symbol
pump 1 accompanied with a blower so that the sanitizer of safe and safety.
reaches the surrounding . The ultrasonic sensor on the other
side has been specified with a range of less than 30cm, any A picturised prototype is shown below in figure 10 for
movement especially hand near(<30cm) the device will the visualization of the device.
activate the spray pump 2 and the sanitizer reaches the hand
through a small pipe.

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Fig 11:- Device model prototype.

The circuit is designed in TINKERCAD software, needed relays can be attached to drive the motors/pumps
programming is done , simulated and made to a working attached in circuitry. The detailed schematic of the working
schematic. Not taking power supply as a major concern, if circuit is shown below in figure 12

Fig 12:- Schematic of the working model.

VI. RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Simulating the circuit at different instance we can see the working of two motors as there is a change of rpm in the motors
while changing the sensor values . Checking for the led and buzzer signal while sensing temperature it can be seen that the led
changes its colour and there is a radiating wave signal/tone through the buzzer.

Fig 13:- Shows the led is green and buzzer is off as temperature is 77.01  F(< 98.6 F).

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Fig 14:- Shows the led turns red and buzzer produces wave signal/tone as temperature changes to 121.13  F(> 98.6 F).

Fig 15:- Shows that spray pump/motor 1 runs with certain rpm as the PIR sensor gets activated.

Fig 16:- Shows that spray pump/motor 2 runs with certain rpm as the Ultrasonic sensor gets activated.

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VII. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE

As stated earlier the device circuit is made in a

software and simulated accordingly. While prototyping the
hardware some power distribution to each module can be a
hindrance, to overcome the problem, relays must be
installed to drive the spray pumps/submersible pumps, so
that the sensors, lcd and other minute modules get enough
power supply from the inbuilt 5 V and 3.3 V ports of the
Arduino microcontroller. It can be manufactured in any
household at a very low cost and can be installed anywhere
be it in offices, educational institutes , public transport ,
regular shops etc.

To draw a concluding line to the project it can be said

that in a war with an invisible enemy the device is a
weapon for survival in this pandemic situation.

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