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A2Z Control System- DTMF Control System

Er. Zatin Gupta1, Payal Jain2 , Monika3
GJCST Classification (FOR)
H.4.3
Abstract-Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) technique for
c) Microcontroller (At89s52)
controlling the domestic and industrial appliances is being
presented in this paper. A simple mobile phone which works on Microcontroller is the control unit of this system. We have
DTMF tone, used to control the domestic as well as industrial used AT89S52. It is low power, high performance CMOS 8-
electrical appliances which with the control system which we
Bit controller with 4K bytes of ROM and 128 bytes of RAM.
have designed here for experimental study. In recent state of
affairs, domestic, military and industrial applications use this d) Dtmf Signal
technique because it can be operated from remote location. Radio
frequency (RF) is also used for wireless communication but DTMF is most widely known method of Multi Frequency
DTMF is an alternate for RF. Mobile phone is used to send the Shift Keying (MSFK) data transmission technique. DTMF
DTMF code from remote location to the control system. The was developed by Bell Labs to be used in the telephone
blocks of system are mobile phone, Microcontroller (AT89S52), system. Most telephones today uses DTMF dialing (or “tone”
DTMF Decoder (MT8870D), Relays and power supply. This dialing).
paper shows the working areas where the system is applicable
and how it has advantages over RF. 1209 1336 1477 1633
Hz Hz Hz Hz
I. INTRODUCTION 697 Hz 1 2 3 A
770 Hz 4 5 6 B
T he main features of DTMF Decoder (MT8870D) are as
follows:• DTMF Receiver
• Low power consumption
852 Hz 7 8 9 C
941 Hz * 0 # D
• Power-down mode
• Inhibit mode
Main applications are as follows: Table 1: DTMF signal frequency encoding table.
• Receiver system The DTMF technique outputs distinct representation of 16
• Remote control common alphanumeric characters (0-9, A-D, *, #) on the
• Telephone answering machine keypad. The lowest frequency used is 697Hz and the highest
frequency used is 1633Hz, as shown in Table 1.
1) BLOCK DIAGRAM
e) Relay Logic
The block diagram of system consists of the following
equipments: To ON/OFF the appliances we need relays because relay is an
on/off switch that can control by microprocessor
a) Mobile Phone
automatically. Appliances are connected to these relays.
Wireless control of domestic and industrial appliances is the Relays are of two types SPDT, DPDT, here SPDT Relays
objective of this paper so to achieve the objective, a mobile is used.
used here. Particular button of mobile keypad produces 2) EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
specific DTMF tone that will transmit by the operator of
mobile to the control system. The main controlling technique using DTMF can be explained
as follow:Integrated DTMF Receiver
b) Dtmf Decoder (Mt8870d)
a) Features
The MT8870D is DTMF receiver consisting of digital
decoder. It uses digital counting techniques for detecting and It has low power consumption, adjustable guard time, inhibit
decoding all 16 DTMF tone pairs into a 4 bit- code. The micro mode. These are the features, which we have used here to
controller takes the 4 bit code as input. achieve the goal of this paper.
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About1- Lecturer, Department of Information and Technology, Maharishi b) Applications
Markandeshwar Engineering College, Maharishi Markandeshwar University,
Mullana, Ambala (Haryana) [email protected], Mobile No:
It is widely used in Mobiles, Remote control, Personal
+919050406988 computers, Telephone answering Machine, etc.
About2- Lecturer, Department of Information and Technology, Maharishi
Markandeshwar Engineering College, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, II. EXPLANATION OF MT8870D
Mullana, Ambala (Haryana) [email protected], Mobile No:
+919466742552.
The MT8870D is a complete DTMF receiver integrating both
About3- Lecturer, Department of Information and Technology, Maharishi the band splitFilter and digital decoder functions. The filter
Markandeshwar Engineering College, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, section uses switched capacitor techniques for high and low
Mullana, Ambala (Haryana) [email protected] group filters; the decoder uses digital counting techniques to
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detect and decode all 16 DTMF tone pairs into a 4-bit BCD III. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
code.
The experimental study of DTMF communication is to be
1) PRACTICAL DESCRIPTION carried out in three stages. The FIRST STAGE is testing the
The MT8870D monolithic DTMF receiver has small size, low output of mobile phone or DTMF Encoder (91241B). The
power consumption and high performance. Its architecture SECOND STAGE is decoding of transmitted data. The
consists of a band split filter section, which separates the high THIRD STAGE is to perform the operation which is supposed
and low frequency tones, followed by a digital counting to be done by pressing the particular key of mobile phone
section which verifies the frequency and duration of the keypad.
received tones before passing the corresponding code to the 1) First Stage
output bus to the Micro Controller.
The goal of this stage is to verify that the DTMF signal
a) Filter Section produced and transferred to the control system is appropriate
Separation of the low and high group tones is achieved by and not affected by noise. The control System with DTMF
applying the DTMF signal to the inputs of band pass filters, receiver is programmed to perform a series of operations. The
the bandwidths of which correspond to the low and high group DTMF characters can be heard as “beeps”. We make such an
frequencies. arrangement of taking the DTMF tone and then checks its
frequency with the standard and then matches both the results
b) Decoder Section if they are same then it means that are signal is not distorted
Decoder Section having the digital counting techniques to and hence supplied to the control system.
determine the frequencies of the incoming tones and to verify 2) Second Stage
that they correspondingly generate a standard DTMF
frequency. This stage is carried out to decode the DTMF signal and to
produce the output which is sent to the Micro-Controller. The
c) Steering Circuit decoding is done by the DTMF Decoder (MT8870D) and it
Before registration of a decoded tone pair, the receiver checks gives the output in BCD format i.e. The FOUR digit code
for a valid signal duration. This check is performed by an which is sent to the Micro-Controller. In this control system
external RC time constant. we are presenting that code also on LED‟s so that we can
easily decode the signal and one LED is used to tell that a
d) Power-Down Feature DTMF signal is received and decoded i.e. whenever a DTMF
+ 5V voltage applied to pin no 6 (PWDN) to power down the signal is received and decoded by decoder then a signal LED
device which minimize the power consumption in a standby will blink. By this means we decode the DTMF Signal.
mode. It stops the oscillator and the functions of the filters. 3) Third Stage
e) Inhibit Mode This stage is to perform the operation which is supposed to be
Inhibit mode is enabled by applying +VE voltage to the pin 5 done by the decoding the DTMF signal into a particular BCD
(INH). It inhibits the detection of tones representing characters code that represents a decimal digit basically. To do this, an
A, B, C, and D. The output code will remain the same as experiment is performed using distinct values and repeated it
previously received. many times to test the onboard DTMF receiver. The
commands, as illustrated in Table are directly represented by
2) ULN 2003A the DTMF characters. Since the main focus is to check that
The ULN2003A is a high voltage; high current Darlington pair whether the operations defined in coding of the system are
arrays each containing seven open collector Darlington pairs working properly, as they actually supposed to be or not. If
with common emitters. Each channel rated at 500mA and can there is any problem then it means that an error occurs there in
withstand peak currents of 600mA. Suppression diodes are between so again the process started from SECOND STAGE
included for inductive load driving and the inputs are pinned until we got the appropriate result.
opposite the outputs to simplify board layout and it is used to
operate relays. X 0 1 2 3 4 5
Y Off On On Off Off On
The main features of ULN 2003A are as All First Second First Second All
Follows:
a) Seven Darlington pair Per Package
Table shows the operations performed
b) Output Current 500mA per Driver
c) Output Voltage 50V X tells DTMF signal produced by such key & Y tells
d) Integrated Suppression Diodes for Inductive loads. Operation performed. To check the working of system, we
e) Outputs can be paralleled for higher current. gave values in between 0-5 to the system and test the
functionality of the control system.
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Decoder Circuit

IV. A2Z CONTROL SYSTEM

Block Diagram

V. CONCLUSION
This paper has described the design and specifications of the
Working Image DTMF based control system and it is feasible to make such a
control system also it has many advantages over any other
media i.e. RF because RF can be easily received by any other
antenna but DTMF tone cannot be. As we are making a call
from a mobile to the mobile which is connected to the system
then only that particular mobile will receives the signal and
decode it. This approach is very secure and is very useful in
domestic as well as industrial usage. Although DTMF has
advantages like low cost, simplicity, very popular in telephone
industry so we conclude that this kind of control systems are
very useful in today‟s scenario.
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