JABATAN KEJURUTERAAN ELEKTRIK

DEE40082 PROJECT 1

INVESTIGATION REPORT

INVESTIGATION REPORT

I Project Title :
AUTOMATIC HOME APPLIANCES DEVICE

II Student Name : III Registration Number :

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iV Supervisor Name :

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V Supervisor Signature Vii. Supervisor Stamp

Date:
 1.0 SYNOPSIS

Summary not more than 200 words

This project is designed and engineered to save energy usage at home. The concept used in this project
is to automatically turn on home fans and lamps only when it is used. In this case if the person leaves
the house, his home appliances automatically turns off. This is because the fans and lamps have its
own sensors. The fans and lamps both use IR sensors and the fans alone also has its own temperature
sensors. The IR sensors sense if there is a person in the house or in a room or not, if there is a person,
the fans and lamps automatically turn on. The person itself can set if he wants the lamps automatically
turn on or not, because during daytime they surely don’t want their lamps to turn on. For the fans, the
IR sensors sense a person like usual, and the fan’s temperature sensor in this case, it senses the room
temperature. If the room temperature is more than 27 degrees Celsius, the fans or even any cooler
automatically turns on for cooling the room.

2.0 PROBLEM STATEMENTS

State your problem statement

1. User did not turn off the switch manually.

2. High electricity bills because users easily forget to turn off the switches
3. User can’t enable or disable the sensors

3.0 OBJECTIVES

Proposed number of objectives is between two to three objectives.

1. To build an automatic home appliances’ device using PIR sensors & LM35 temperature device.
2. To reduce electricity bills by applying automatic home appliances’ device
3. Users can enable or disable the sensors by using the rotary encoder and the Nokia 5110 display.
 4.0 PROJECT SCOPE

Include all resources required

• Software - Arduino 1.8.7

• Hardware - Arduino NANO

-Rotary Encoder
-Nokia 5110 LCD
-PCB Board
-LED
-12V axial fan
-PiR sensor
-LM35 sensor
-Jumper wire
-USB type A to type C data cable

• Location/User - At home

5.0 FACT FINDING (BASIC LITERATURE REVIEW)

1. Arduino menu with rotary encoder

In the display a simple menu appears, and with the help of the rotary encoder the user can navigate
up, or down and select a menu item by pressing the rotary encoder button. When the middle button
of the rotary encoder is pressed, another screen appears and the user can change the value of a
variable. If the user presses the rotary encoder button once more, it goes back to the main menu
screen. The menu has 6 items, and the user can scroll down or up the menu and the items on the
display will change accordingly.

2. PIR sensor with Arduino & LED

Infrared technology addresses a wide variety of wireless applications. The main areas are sensing
and remote controls. In the electromagnetic spectrum, the infrared portion is divided into three
regions: near infrared region, mid infrared region and far infrared region. The PIR sensor sends
instruction to the Arduino motherboard and then decides to light up the LED or not.

3. Temperature based fan control

In this project, the main item is a temperature sensor, Arduino, and a mini axial fan 12V.Basically
what it does is when the temperature sensor senses the surrounding temperature is higher than it
expected (which is set in the system), it triggers the instruction and turns on the mini axial 12V fan.
This is because the temperature sensor is used to sense the surrounding’s temperature, if it is higher
than its expected value, the input will be 1, if it’s not it will be 0 which there will be no instruction
sent.
 Table 1.0: Comparison between 3 previous projects

Project A Project B Project C

Project Name Arduino menu with PIR sensor with Temperature based
rotary encoder Arduino & LED fan control

Hardware -Arduino UNO -Arduino UNO -Arduino UNO

-Nokia 5110 LCD -Breadboard -LM35 temperature
-Rotary Encoder -PiR sensor sensor
-LED -LED
-12v DC motor
-9V battery
Function Using the rotary The PIR sensor acts as LM35 temperature
encoder for settings an input to send sensor senses the
menu in the Nokia instruction to the surrounding
5110 LCD Display. microcontroller to temperature to send
light up the LED. instruction to the
microcontroller to
turn on the fan and
sets it’s speed.

Software Arduino IDE Arduino IDE Arduino IDE

Table 1.1: The proposed project

Project Name Automatic Home Appliances Device

Hardware -Arduino NANO
-Rotary Encoder
-Nokia 5110 LCD
-PCB Board
-LED
-12V axial fan
-PiR sensor
-LM35 sensor
-Jumper wire
-USB type A to type C data cable
Function To save electrical energy of a house by using an automatic system
which only turns on the lamps and fans when there is a person around
and turns it off automatically. Also included an mini display to enable
or disable the sensors

Software Arduino IDE

 6.0 ANALYZE PROJECT USABILITY, COST, BENEFIT, AND SCHEDULE DATA

Project Operational

Figure 1.0 : The Flowchart of proposed project

This project is about an “Automatic home appliances device”. The way it operates is when a person
starts to walk in a room of some area where this sensor is located, the PIR sensor will send an
instruction to the Arduino motherboard to light up the lamp and turn on the fan. The fan of the house
is also equipped with a temperature sensor so it doesn’t only trigger when there is a person nearby.
But it will also trigger when the temperature of the area is higher than it expected. By that way it will
turn on the fan and cool down the area. The person also can set the system using the rotary encoder
and the Nokia 5110 menu to enable or disable some sensors in the house.
Technical Requirement

Hardware

No. Hardware
1. Arduino NANO
2 Rotary Encoder
3. Nokia 5110 Display
4. PCB BOARD
5. LED
6. 12V axial fan
7. PIR sensor
8. DFRobot
Gravity:Analog LM35
temperature sensor
9. Jumper wire
10. USB type A to C data
cable

Software:

No. Software
1 Arduino 1.8.9

Estimated Cost

List of components and materials:

No. Component and materials The unit price Quantity Total

1 Arduino NANO set RM 46.00 1 RM 46.00

2 Rotary Encoder RM 3.00 1 RM 3.00

3 Nokia 5110 display RM 11.90 1 RM 11.90

4 PCB board RM11.00 1 RM11.00

5 LED RM.0.10 3 RM 0.30

6 12V axial mini fan RM 5,00 1 RM 5.00

7 PiR sensor RM7.00 1 RM7.00

8 DFRobot gravity:Analog LM35 temp RM3.90 1 RM3.90

sensor
9 Jumper wire RM 4.00 1 RM 4.00

10. USB type A to C data cable (includes with 1 RM 0.00

arduino set)
Overall RM92.10
total
Project Scheduling

Weeks
Project Activities
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Discussion with Project Supervisor
Project selection
Fact finding (Basic literature review)
Project usability, estimate cost & scheduling
Project operational system construction (interfacing hardware with

Cuti Pertengahan Semester

software)

Peperiksaan Akhir
Minggu Ulangkaji
Investigation report writing & submission
Presentation investigation report with evaluation panel
Completion of mini project
Writing Final Proposal - Chapter 1
Writing Final Proposal - Chapter 2
Components purchasing
Development of software programming
Development of hardware
Writing Final Proposal - Chapter 3
Submission Final Proposal
 7.0 EVALUATE FEASIBILITY

Technical resources

Block diagram of AUTOMATIC HOME APPLIANCES DEVICE

LM35
LAMP
TEMP ANALOG
SENSOR DIGITAL
CONVERTER
PIR ARDUINO
SENSOR MICROCONTROLLER FAN

NOKIA 5110
DISPLAY
Financial resources
Own money

8.0 PROVIDE A CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

In conclusion, this “Automatic home appliances device is used to save electrical energy of a
house. Other than that, the user also saves money from less paying the electricity bill. In
addition, the wires in the concrete walls also does not get faulty very quickly because this
smart device will make the electrical device in the house operates only when its used and turn
off automatically when there no one home. User also don’t have to remember either they
switched off the lamps and fans or not because this device does it for the user. This device
does not require any internet or WIFI so it is safe from malfunctioning and lagging. This
device gives a positive impact to the household and even the world.
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Cite a website in APA (at least 3 references)

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Additional Comments:

Link for guideline writing References :

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-
guidelines/references/examples/webpage-website-references

* Notes: Students are requested to submit an initial proposal to the supervisor at week-4