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Chapter I

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction

The Clap Switch which can switch on/off any electrical circuit by the sound
of a clap. The operation of the circuit is simple. If we clap the lamp turns on and to
switch it off clap again. The condenser microphone picks up the sound of your claps,
coughs, and the sound of that book knocked off the table. It produces a small electrical
signal which is amplified by the succeeding transistor stage. Two transistors cross
connected as a bi-stable multi vibrator change state at each signal. One of these
transistors drives a heavier transistor which controls a lamp. This circuit can switch on
and off a light, a fan or a radio etc by the sound of a clap.

This circuit is constructed using basic electronic components like

resistors, transistors, relay, transformer, capacitors. This circuit turns ‘ON’ light for the
first clap. The light turns ON till the next clap. For the next clap the light turns OFF. This
circuit works with 12V voltage. Therefore a step-down transformer 12V/300mA is
employed. This working of this circuit is based on amplifying nature of the transistor,
switching nature of transistor, relay as an electronic switch. Basically, this is a Sound
operated switch.

The basic idea of clap switch is that the electric microphone picks up the sound of your
claps, coughs, and the sound of that book knocked off the table. It produces a small
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electrical signal which is amplified by the succeeding transistor stage. Two transistors
cross connected as a bi-stable multi-vibrator change state at each signal. One of these
transistors drives a heavier transistor which controls a lamp. This circuit is constructed
using basic electronic components like resistors, transistors, relay, transformer,
capacitors. This circuit turns „ON‟ light for the first clap. The light turns ON till the next
clap. For the next clap the light turns OFF. This circuit works with 12V voltage.
Therefore a step-down transformer 12V/300mA is employed. The primary application
involves an elderly or mobility-impaired person. It is generally used for a light, television,
radio, or similar electronic device that the person will want to turn on/off from bed. The
major disadvantage is that, it is generally cumbersome to have to clap one's hands to
turn something ON or OFF and it's generally seen as simpler for most use cases to use
a traditional light switch.

Background of Study
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IETI Marikina was established in 1988 together with IETI Cainta. It was first located at
the third floor Rempson Building, Shoe Avenue (formerly Munding Avenue), Sto. Niño,
Marikina City. It initially offers tech voc courses. In year 2000, IETI Marikina relocated at #34
Lark Street, Sta. Elena, Marikina City and offered a baccalaureate computer course.

As of today, IETI Marikina is offering Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

(BSIT), Information Communication Technology (ICT) Hotel and Restaurant Services (HRS),
and Consumer Electronics and Electromechanical Technology (CEET). Now, the school was
given certification and recognition to open Senior High School.

IETI developed their own Students Administrative System for enrollment records and
billing purposes. Events Payment are excluded at their system, working manually on events
payment records are such a waste of time. There are certain requirements that a student should
accomplish for their records. Directress, Staff and Class Advisers are having a hard time to
identify the lacking requirements of students for them to comply with their academic references
that’s why the researcher wants to propose this system in order for the records personnel to make
their work easier and manageable.

Theoretical/Conceptual Framework
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Hughes (2008) Electronic systems are frequently associated

with the transmission of information. This might be taking the information
keyed into a pocket calculator through to the microprocessor and finally to the
display. Alternatively, a system might collect information about the pressure of
gas in a pipe and transmit it to a control room. Yet again a system might take a
television picture from one side of the world to the other.

Information can come in many forms. For instance, we could

indicate light by sending a voltage when a lamp is switched on and sending no
voltage when the lamp is switched off. This is quite crude but effective. But
information can be complex, especially when it is visual as in a television
picture.

Tomiwa (2018) In the past, appliances and gadgets were

manually controlled. The radio and cassette players that are available then had
buttons and variable knob for switching on and controlling the sound. This
made it difficult for appliances to be controlled from afar.

In the 1980s, the sound activated control system was

invented to overcome the shortcoming of the remote control. This made use of
all type of sounds for controlling basic appliances and can be adjusted to
different sensitivity level enabling it range to be variable

Karvinen(2014) An Arduino runs sketches, which are

programs that you write and upload to the Arduino from your computer. By
writing software programs that make the decisions necessary to process sensor
data, you really expand how much you can do, and, amazingly, you also cut
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down the time you’d have to spend working with hardware components. Sure,
you have to write a few lines of code, but it’s faster to write a conditional loop
in code than to design it in hardware—at least for most of us.

It is also much easier to modify code than it is to modify a

circuit layout. For example, suppose you want to add a delay how often a
sensor takes meas33 urements. You could accomplish this by chaining a few
capacitors in series, but you’ll need to do some careful planning and
calculation to get the timing right.

Paradigm of the Study

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Grade 12 Students of IETI College of

Science and Technology, Inc. -
Marikina

Figure 1 Paradigm of the Study

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Figure 1.0 shows the table of the study where it aims to determine the uses
and the benefits of using Clap Control AC using Arduino of IETI College of
Science and Technology, Inc. Marikina 2020-2021.

Statement of the Problem

The researcher proposed the study of Clap Control AC using Arduino among Grade 12
Students of IETI College of Science and Technology Marikina AY 2020-2021.

Specifically the researcher sought to answer the following questions:

1. Does the use of Clap Control AC using Arduino helps the Directress, Staff and Class
Advisers and Students in terms of:

1.1 ;

1.2 ;

1.3 ?

2. Is the Events Payment Monitoring System beneficial in terms of:

2.1 ;

2.2 ;

2.3 ?
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3. Is there any significance in using Clap Control Ac using Arduino among the Grade 12
Students of IETI College of Science and Technology Marikina AY 2020-2021?

Hypothesis

The null and void hypothesis of this study is:

There was no significance in using Clap Control AC using Arduino of IETI

College of Science and Technology– Marikina it is located at the #34 Lark Street
Sta. Elena, Marikina City for the AY 2020-2021.

Significance of Study

To simplify the use of Clap control and to easily done to switch the lights on/off and it
will benefit the students of IETI Marikina.

The benefactors of the study were the following:

Directress. This study may help the directress register events and monitor events
payment records information without complication.
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Students. This study may help the students to know how beneficial Event Management
and Ticketing Systems are by making their transactions easier and their records updated.

Class Advisers. The study may help them in terms of checking required requirements of
their student’s easily.

Staff. The Study will help the staff to manage and easily access events records of the
students without difficulties.

Researcher. The study may provide them information that they will need in future studies.