BREATHE ANALYZER

FOR ALCOHOL DETECTION USING ARDUINO

A Synopsis

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the

Requirements for the minor project of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
In

INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL ENGINEERING

Submitted by

Abhishek Kumar (20106003)

Gaurav Kheriya (20106034)

Sushil Yadav (20106103)

Under the guidance of

Dr. Om Prakash Verma

Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL ENGINEERING

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 DR B R AMBEDKAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JALANDHAR,
PUNJAB-144027, INDIA

INDEX Chapters Topic Page Remarks

ABSTRACT 2
1 INTRODUCTION 3
2 LITRETURE REVIEW 4
3 PROBLEM FORMULATION 5
4 METHODOLOGY 6 -10
5 RESULT AND ANALYSIS 11
6 CONCLUSION 12
REFRENCES 13

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 ABSTRACT
As the number of automobiles on the road has increased quickly, the
likelihood of traffic accidents is increasing rapidly and drunken driving is
believed to be a significant contributor to traffic accidents worldwide. In a
report of WHO one person dies at every 45 min due to drunk driving in the
world also almost three million people die every year throughout the world,
because of over consumption of alcohol. Beyond the above fact, the address
matter is that it can be prevented by taking the help of technology.

This project's primary objective is to create a system that would find out how
much alcohol the driver of the vehicle has consumed. The intended function
of the suggested system is to stop the user from driving while intoxicated
with the goal of lowering the number of accidents involving inebriated
drivers. The suggested design is created with an arduino uno and an alcohol
sensor (MQ 3) are the main constituents and in order to ensure safety when
the amount of acceptable limit is reached , the vehicle’s ignition system (DC
motor) will be stopped.

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 CHAPTER-1

INTRODUCTION
The aim of this project is to create an alcohol detection device using Genuino
101, which will assure officials or respected authorities to searchout people
who have consumed alcohol beyond permissible limit and ensure they don’t
end up doing any dangerous activities. our model will be prepared using
Arduino Uno and alcohol detection sensor (MQ-3) as its main components.
when the level of alcohol crosses a permissible limit, the vehicle starting
mechanism (DC Motor) will be turned off and the concerned authority will
be notify using the GSM module. We can also use this project to warn the
passenger sitting inside the bus that your pilot has drunken by attaching some
sound system to it. our device would continuously monitor the driver's breath
by placing it on the suitable position on the vehicle.Thus, if a pilot tries to
operate a vehicle while drunken, the our device will check the percentage of
alcohol content in the driver's breath if it found beyond the permissible limit
the device will locks the engine, and hence car will not start. In this way we
can stop the driver from running the vehicle.

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 CHAPTER-2
Literature review
Suggest several approaches on this subject. Of these, some specific papers are
analyzed in Section below.

Vijay Savaniah et al. [1] have presented a system using an alcohol detector
sensor placed aside with an ultrasonic sensor which is used for car accident
prevention. The received information is transmitted via sms to nearby
authorities through the GSM module. .Dada Emmanuel Gbenga el al[2] used
arduino Uno microcontroller connected to his alcohol sensor along with an
LCD screen and his DC motor to build a prototype that detects alcohol and
motors his locking mechanism. I suggested. If alcohol is detected, the engine
will shut off and you must park immediately. Prof. Dr. D.G.Jha et al. [3]
proposed a model aimed at preventing users from drinking and driving and
reducing the number of drunken driving accidents. If the driver has been
drinking before, but consumes alcohol while travelling, the sensor will
continue to measure and if the level exceeds the limit, the vehicle will begin
to slow down and will stop.

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 CHAPTER-3

PROBLEM FORMULATION
According to the report of, Department of Roads and Highways (GOI), 2017,
the total number of accidents on Indian roads was 4,64,910. Out of which
14,071 accidents were caused by drunk driving, so drunk driving is one of the
major cause of accidents on Indian roads. Drunk driving puts many lives and
property at risk, This is because the person driving the car is not in a stable
position to control the car and if he or she become unconscious then life of all
the people sitting inside the vehicle are at stake so these type of Drivers must
not be allowed to drive their vehicles in these circumstances.

In order to find the solution, the industry and researcher came up with the
idea of The Internet of Things, (IoT)[4], but it has gained popularity in
recent years only when it is getting used in various field. The Internet of
Things (IoT) is the connectivity that allows these things(smart phones ,cars
and consumer electronics) to connect and exchange data, embedded in
electronic objects, software, sensors, etc., connecting the physical world to
computers. The present invention relates generally to alcohol detection
devices, and more specifically, used in automobile ignition switch systems to
prevent automobiles from starting by detecting alcohol content when the
driver is drunken beyond permissible limit.

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 CHAPTER-4

METHODOLOGY
The system is made up of a variety of units. Alcohol detection sensor,
arduino uno R3 ATMEGA328, buzzer, engine locking unit, ignition system
unit, camera module unit. To illustrate the idea of a car engine locking, a dc
motor is used as the engine. The ATmega328 microcontroller is a brand name
of Arduino UNO. The alcohol sensor's output is provided by this
microcontroller. To write the code, compile it, and create a hex file to load
into the microcontroller, utilise the Arduino Uno sketch, which serves as the
programming environment.. MQ3 sensor is used for alcohol sensors.

ARDUINO:- The system's core component is the Arduino board. The

Arduino board is connected to every component.

ALCOHOL MODULE: -It uses a MQ3 sensor to detect the amount of

alcohol in the driver's air breath. Which applies its analogue output to the
Arduino board.

ENGINE LOCKING MODULE:- Vehicle engines are DC motors. Once the

alcohol content exceeds 40%, the DC motor stops operating according to
predetermined criteria. but when alcohol level goes below 40% the engine
run continues. The microcontroller's pin 9 is coupled to the DC motor, which
has a voltage range of 1.5 to 6 volts.

CAMERA MODULE:-camera is installed at the front of the driver which

detects the behaviour of face drivers to increase the accuracy of detection of
drunken drivers.

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1. ARDUINO BOARD

Arduino board is the main component of system. It is programmable

microcontroller for electromechanical device. It consist a reset button, for
outflow and inflow of feeding are all included on this Arduino. It also has six
continuous signals with time-varying quantities , a power connector, an ICSP
header, an on-board voltage regulator, and 14 pins that allow for outflow and
inflow of feeding are all included on this Arduino. It also has six continuous
signals with time-varying quantities. The Atmega328 includes 32KB flash
memory, 1KB EEPROM, 2KB SRAM, and a 16 MHz ceramic resonator.
Arduino uno ATmega328 microcontroller unit shown in figure 1.

Fig. 1:Arduino uno ATmega328 microcontroller unit[4]

2. ALCOHOL SENSOR (MQ3)

MQ3 is worthy for alcohol detecting. The sensor is made up of Tin Dioxide
(SnO2). Tin dioxide is use making of this sensor. Potentiometer can be used
adjustment of sensitivity. MQ3 have fast response , High sensitivity. It is
stable and contain long life. figure 2 and 3 shows circuit diagram MQ3.

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MQ3 sensor s suitable for natural environment condition at which human
can survive. it’s temperature range is -10℃-50℃,related humidity 65%.

Fig.2: simplified circuit diagram MQ3 alcohol sensor[5]

MQ3 sensor s suitable for natural environment condition at which human

can survive. it’s temperature range is -10℃-50℃,related humidity less than
95%Rh,21%(standard condition)Oxygen concentration can affect sensitivity,
detection concentration (0.4mg/L alcohol).

Table 1: Alcohol Sensor Technical Specification

Parameter Sensor type Detection gas concentration Voltage Load Heater slop Temperature Sensing
name resistance(R )
L resistance(R )
H
humidity resistance

semiconducto Alcohol gas 0.04-4mg/l -5 TO adjustable 32 ohm 200- 65% 2K ohm-

r alcohol 1000ppm 20K ohm
+5v

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3. BUZZER
In alarmunit use buzzer as indication of alcohol is detected. It is a PS series
buzzer that is being used. It’s feature is extremely low power consumption
comparison of other electromechanical unit. It is attached to a
microcontroller and requires 2V of voltage

Fig. 3: Buzzer[5]

4. DC MOTOR
The dc motor is an electrical dc motor which is used to demonstrate the
concept of engine locking. Here the dc motor is used as the engine of a
car ,when alcohol is detected above 40% concentration of alcohol in air the
dc motor stops and When no alcohol is found, the running continues.

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5. CAMERA
The CMOS OV7670 camera module is one kind of CMOS image sensor available in low voltage
+3.3V DC power input. It has high sensitivity and small size. It shown in figure 6.

Fig. 4: camera[5]

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Expected result and analysis
When alcohal content of driver is less than the sensor permissible limit
then it will displays the message as shown in figure[5] below

[5]

Fig 5[5]

And When driver’s alcohol content exceeds the ste limit of sensor then a
message is displayed on the lcd as shown in figure[6]

Fig 6[5]

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 CONCLUSION
This synopsis provides a brief but complete overview of the alcohol
detector, and also describes it as simple. In this method, the presence of
alcohol level will be detected from the breath of a drunk driver and
stops the engine of the car when the alcohol level crosses the permissible
limit and through this we can save many lives.

References
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[1] Vijay Savania, Hardik Agravata and DhrumilPatela,“Alcohol
Detection and Accident Prevention of Vehicle”,International Journal of
Innovative and Emerging Research in Engineering,Volume 2, Issue 3,
2015

[2] Dada Emmanuel Gbenga, HamitIsseiniHamed,et.al. “Alcohol

Detection of Drunk Drivers with Automatic Car Engine Locking
System”,Nova Explore Publications,Nova Journal of Engineering and
Applied Sciences,Vol.6 (1) 2017

[3] Prof .Dr.D.G.Jha, Swapnil buva “Alcohol Detection in Real-Time

To Prevent Drunk Driving” IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering
(IOSR-JCE) ,PP 66-71

[4]“Internet of
Things”,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things
[5] https://www.utmel.com/components/ov7670-camera-
module-datasheet-specifications-and-comparison?id=797

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