International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volume 120 No. 6 2018, 7049-7060

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Android Controlled Smart Notice Board

using IoT
Dr. Pankaj Kumar Srivastava1 ,
Prof. Anil Kumar Jakkani2 ,
1
Professor
2
Assistant Professor
1,2
ISB&M School of Technology, Pune.

July 4, 2018

Abstract
With the advent of Digital Technology, it is efficient to
represent the information on digital devices. Now a days in-
ternet is the primary mode of communication everywhere.
Notice board plays a vital role to convey the message in
any organization. To achieve the green IT, it is mandatory
to use the Digital media rather than earlier conventional
media like paper printing. In this paper, it has been imple-
mented an Android Controlled Smart Notice Board using
IoT (Internet of Things) which uses the Raspberry Pi and
IoT which is controlled by an Android application. With
the help of this project, an authenticated person can con-
vey the message/notice even from remote place on digital
devices like LCD display. The proposed system reduces the
resources like manpower and time. In this project, IoT tech-
nology has been adopted in which internet used as a tool to
connect and exchange the data among the different devices.

Index Terms Android, Notice Board, Raspberry Pi, IoT

and html.

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1 Introduction
In earlier days people used the paper as the medium to convey any
message. The paper material, which is made of pulp of the tree,
will be scarce after few years. It is mandatory to save the trees by
employing digital technology rather than the conventional method.
Printing a paper requires the quantitative manpower. This conven-
tional method is very costly. An alternative to this conventional
method is efficient to use the digital media and digital technology.
Notice boards play a vital role in conveying the messages to many
people at the same time. Notice boards are used in Institutions,
Organizations and many public places. In earlier days printed pa-
per is used to display on a notice board. These conventional notice
boards are not so interactive for the modifications in the message
which is to be conveyed. Also requires huge amount of resources
and manpower. A digital notice board can be replaced in place of
conventional notice board to make more interactive and adaptable.
Here in which reduces the manpower and resources.
The smart notice board uses the digital technology and the elec-
tronic components/modules. It is implemented to display the notice
or message which is more convenient for the administrator in terms
of displaying, modifying and viewing of the notices/messages.
In the paper [1], a smart electronic notice board is implemented
using Wi-Fi, in which a wireless transmitter sends a notice using
Wi-Fi Protocol. The disadvantage of this system is the information
can be passed about 100 meters distance range only. A remote user
with more than the specified distance cannot access to this system.
In the paper [2], an Android controlled E-notice board was devel-
oped which uses the GSM technology. The disadvantage of this
system is, it was developed by using GSM technology and it wont
use the IoT. As a result the system is not more user friendly. In this
system the notice which will be displayed is limited to the message
length of 160 characters only. Also the system is more costly.
A survey paper on Android controlled notice board [3] was pub-
lished by Saloni sahare, Rajat kadwe, which compares the SMS,
controlled smart E-notice board and Bluetooth based LED display.
In this paper the both the systems which are implemented have the
limitation of the message length which is to be displayed.
A wireless electronic notice board using GSM technology [4] has

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been implemented by N. Jagan mohan reddy, G.Venkareshwarlu.

In this paper, GSM technology is used to send and control the no-
tice board by an authenticated user. In such implementation the
display message is limited to few characters only. As a result it
cannot be possible to display long text notices. So the design is not
user friendly.
A wireless digital notice board using GSM technology [5] has been
designed by Ramchandra K. Gurav, Rohit Jagtap. In this paper,
the implemented system can display the notice from an authorized
person and sends it to GSM module of digital notice board. In this
design also the message length is limited. Again the system is not
user friendly.
In the paper [6], display message on notice board using GSM tech-
nology has been implemented. In this design, when the user sends
a Short Message Service, it will be received by the GSM modem of
the receiver. This message will be displayed on the LCD module
of digital notice board with the help of microcontroller. In this
design, the notice text length is limited to a standard SMS length
only. Also the system does not work in case of network failure.
In the paper [7], SMS based wireless notice board with monitor-
ing system has been implemented. The system is designed using
ARM-LPC2148 interfaced with Graphical Display. In this imple-
mentation multiple displays along with a decoder are used to select
a particular display. The information is sent to the corresponding
display monitor through an ARM controller by using GSM tech-
nology. In this design, all the notices are documented and a record
may be maintained for future purpose. In this design, the moni-
toring system consists of an image sensor to capture the images for
the specified duration and those images can be stored in a PC. This
system has the limitation of less display size.
A wireless electronic notice board using Zigbee [8] has been imple-
mented by Ajinkya Gaikwad and Tej Kapadia. In this design, the
system uses the Zigbee protocol for wireless transmission of notices.
Also, the distance between the user and the display module is lim-
ited to 100 meters only.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is used to sense, control and commu-
nicate among the all interconnected devices like sensors, actuators,
display devices and the microcontroller. In this IoT technology,
each thing is uniquely identifiable by an embedded operating sys-

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tem using internet infrastructure. According to experts estimation

the Internet of Things (IoT) [9] will consist of about 30 billion ob-
jects by 2020. The IoT technology has been widely used due to the
integration of various technologies like wireless, machine learning
and sensors and embedded computing system. Several applications
of IoT include in smart home, enterprise, industrial management,
agriculture and environmental monitoring.
In this paper it has been proposed a smart notice board which can
be controlled by an authorized person or administrator in spite of
any distance between that person and the system. To make the
system more user friendly an android application is developed to
monitor and control the smart notice board. The time consump-
tion, resources and manpower of conventional notice board were
reduced by implementing this system. The proposed system is a
step forward to achieve the Green IT and Automation. It is also
a cost effective solution over the earlier conventional notice board
system.

2 BLOCK DIAGRAM
The block diagram of the Android controlled smart notice board
using IoT is shown in fig. 1. It consists of the following modules.

1. Power Supply

2. Raspberry Pi-3

3. LCD Monitor

4. Android Phone and App

2.1 Power supply

The Raspberry Pi 3 requires a +5.1V supply [10]. The exact
current rating of Pi depends on the Peripherals connected to
it. It requires a 2.5A power supply to run the Raspberry Pi.

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Fig. 1 Android controlled smart notice board using IoT

2.2 Raspberry Pi-3

The Raspberry Pi [11] is a type of micro-computer developed in
the UK. The original Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi-2 are man-
ufactured in several board configurations through licensed manu-
facturing agreements with Newark element 14, RS Raspberry Pi
logo Components and Egoman. Broadcom BCM2835 SoC has de-
veloped the original model of Raspberry Pi, which consist of an
ARM1176JZF-S 700MHz processor, Video Core GPU, and with
256MB RAM. The system has Secure Digital or MicroSD sockets
for boot media and persistent storage.
In 2014, the Raspberry Pi foundation launched the Compute Mod-
ule, consists a BCM2835 SoC with 512MB RAM and an eMMC
flash memory. Also provides Debian and Arch Linux ARM distri-
butions. Tools are available for Python as the main programming
language, with support for BBC BASIC, C, C++, Java, Ruby and
Perl.
In the year 2015, the Raspberry Pi-2 was released. This new com-
puter board has Broadcom BCM2836 System on Chip, with a quad-
core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU, Video Core IV dual-core GPU and 1GB
RAM.

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Raspberry Pi-3 Model B ARMv8 with 1GB RAM is used in this

project. The Raspberry Pi-3 shown in fig. 2, has two major up-
grades [6]. The first is a next generation Quad Core Broadcom
BCM2837 SoC 64-bit ARMv8 processor with speed of up to 1.2GHz
compared to the previous 900 MHz on the Raspberry Pi-2. The sec-
ond is the built-in BCM43143 SoC Wi-Fi chip, which supports the
wireless operation. The power source has been upgraded to 2.5A,
allowing it to power even more heavy load devices using USB ports.
It consists of 40-pin GPIO header gives access to 27 GPIO, I2C,
UART, SPI, 3.3V and 5V sources.

Fig. 2 Raspberry Pi-3 model B

2.3 LCD Monitor

Here we can use different display devices which have the HDMI/VGA
feature like LCD monitor or LCD TV. Each display device requires
the power supply depending on specifications. In this project 19
inch LCD monitor is used with suitable HDMI to VGA adapter.
Internal power supply has 20W max power consumption.

2.4 Android Phone and App

Android phone with android version 4.0 is used in this project. An
android application shown in fig. 3 is developed using the Android
studio which is used for sending, viewing and controlling of the
message. The android application supports android version 4.0 and
above.

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Fig. 3 Android application for smart notice board

3 IMPLEMENTATION
Using the HDMI feature of Raspberry Pi 3 an output device LCD
Monitor is interfaced with the Pi as shown in fig. 4. This output
device is used for the display of notices. The WLAN protocol IEEE
802.11 is used to connect Raspberry Pi with the internet server. A
webpage using HTML was created where the notices will be dis-
played. Using python code the Raspberry Pi will access to the
HTML page continuously for the updates.

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Fig. 4 Smart notice board using IoT

The authenticated user provided with android application can
send the message/notice with feature provided in the app. The sent
message/notice will be uploaded to the website. Immediately after
the notice appears in the webpage it will be read by the Raspberry
Pi using the IoT technology and displayed on the output device.

4 ADVANTAGES
Following are the advantages of this project.
1. An authenticated user can send the message/notice from any-
where.
2. This system will reduce the manpower as well as the human
work.
3. It also saves the resources like time, printer, printing ink and
paper.
4. It is the most secure, reliable and confidential as the admin-
istrator is provided with username and password.
5. Apart from the administrator no one else can manipulate/change
the notice.
6. The proposed system is most user friendly with android app.

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5 DISADVANTAGES
The disadvantages of the proposed system are as follows.

1. It requires continuous power for the Pi and display.

2. It needs the continuous internet connection to check the up-

dates in the notices page and display it.

6 RESULTS
It has been observed that by using the proposed design, the display
notice length is extended to 2000 characters with LCD monitor. In
this design, it is also observed that an authorized user with android
mobile and application can update the notice from anywhere pro-
vided valid internet connection. The system is ensured with high
end security using user name and password feature in the android
app.

7 COMPARISON
Different types of systems for wireless notice board have been pro-
posed by the various authors. A comparison of different designs has
been tabulated as follows.

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8 FUTURE SCOPE
The implemented system can be used in shopping malls and bus
stations for dynamic updating of notices/messages. Also scan copy
of notices can be displayed using the proposed system. The voice
feature can be added to this design for advertisement/ announce-
ment of notices in public places.

9 CONCLUSION
Using the IoT technology of Raspberry Pi and Android, an au-
thenticated user can send and control the messages/notices from
anywhere which will be displayed on LCD display notice board at
the home location. With the proposed system, the resources like
time and manpower are reduced sufficiently.

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