Wireless notice Board Using Bluetooth

1. INTRODUCTION

In this proposed method, the development of a simple and low-cost wireless

Android based notice board is presented. The proposed system uses either Bluetooth or
Wi-Fi based wireless serial data communication in displaying messages on a remote
digital notice board.

Android based Application programs available for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

communication for personal digital assistant (PDA) devices are used for transmitting the
alpha-numeric text messages. Using the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi based serial data
communication technique, the corresponding transceiver module has been interfaced with
microcontroller board at the receiver end. For this purpose, a low-cost microcontroller
board (Arduino Uno) is programmed to receive alphanumeric text messages in any of the
above selected communication modes. The proposed system will help in reducing the
human effort, paper, printer ink and cost for manual changing of the notices.

The development of cellular networks in the 1970’s for increasing the lack of
frequencies in the radiotelephone services which in turn lead to introduction of AMPS
(Advanced Mobile Phone System) where the transmission was
analog based. This was known to be the first generation in cellular networks.

The second generation was based on digital transmission and was

called with various abbreviations as GSM (Global System for Mobile communications),
ERMES (European Radio Messaging System).

Various Cordless telephone standards were also introduced during this time only.
The third generation has risen with the
unification of different technologies; some of them which are popularly known are
FPLMTS (Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications
System), UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System), and IMT-
2000 (International Mobile communication). These days, BLUETOOTH technology

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has become one the most popular medium for wireless data transfer. It has a wide
range and is efficient in its work

Wireless notice board is very selective term for this project, as it has a very wide scope
rather than just being a simple notice board. First we should understand the purpose of
this project, in this system we can display a message or notice to some display device like
LCD, and this message can be easily set or changed from anywhere in the world, just by
using the SMS facility of your mobile handset. Whatever notice we want to display, just
send the SMS of that text, with some prefix and suffix.

This is very useful in Hotels, Malls, college, offices and can be used anywhere,
even at home. Like you can set the message like “Do not disturb” at your hotel’s room
gate, can set message at your home’s door step when you are away, and of course it is
used as notice board in schools, colleges, cinema halls etc. And yes, it’s just not a simple
Message board, the usefulness of this project is that you can set or change the message or
notice from anywhere, just sending SMS from your phone. You can also check a similar
project but on a different type of display: Arduino Scoreboard using Outdoor P10 LED
Matrix Display.

We have previously used the SMS facility of mobile phone for home security and
control the home appliances remotely: PIR Sensor and GSM Based Security
System and GSM Based Home Automation using Arduino

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2. LITERATURE SURVEY

Ramya R, Bavithra N, Priyanka M, “Wireless E-notice board using Bluetooth

technology” This paper explains E-notice board with the help of Bluetooth technology.

This document deals with an innovative rather an interesting manner of intimating

the message to the people using a wireless electronic display board which is synchronized
using the Bluetooth technology. This will help us in passing any message almost
immediately without any delay just by sending a SMS which is better and more reliable
than the old traditional way of passing the message on notice board. This proposed
technology can be used incolleges many public places, malls or big buildings to enhance
the security system and also make awareness of the emergency situations and avoid many
dangers.

Dharmendra Kumar Sharma, Vineet Tiwari, “Small and medium range wireless
electronic noticeboard using Bluetooth and ZigBee” this paper introduces Notice Board
using Bluetooth and ZigBee technology.

When information exchange occurs between people via a network, then

authentication and security of data have more priority. This paper introduces a low cost,
handheld, wireless electronic notice board by using Atmel’s ATmega32 microcontroller
and different wireless technologies (Bluetooth and ZigBee) and their performance
analysis based on the parameter such as range, BER (bit error rate), RSSI (Received signal
strength indicator), signal attenuation and power consumption. The notice board receives
serial data from wireless module receiver and displays it on the graphical liquid crystal
display. We have realizeda common communication receiver hardware for notice board
having compatibility with both wireless modules i.e., Bluetooth and ZigBee. We used
KS0108 based 128x64 graphical LCD as display element.

M. Abila Mary, B. Pavithra, R. Sangeetha, Prof.T.C. Subbu Lakshmi, “GSM

based wireless noticeboard using Arduino” In this paper built a Noticeboard using GSM
technology.

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The GSM based notice board is aimed at the colleges and universities for
displaying day-to-day information continuously or at regular intervals during the working
hours. Being GSM-based system, it offers flexibility to display flash news or
announcements faster than the programmable system.

a) To develop a GSM based notice board whose contents can be updated through an
SMS which realized through an embedded system with microcontroller.
b) To design a project simple, easy to install, user friendly system, which may receive
and display notice in a very specific manner.
c) SMS based notice board incorporating the widely used GSM to facilitate the
communication of displaying message on notice board via user’s mobile phone
d) SIM 800 GSM modem with a SIM card is interfaced to the ports of the Arduino
with the help of AT commands.

Pallavi M. Banait, Nikita P. Bakale, Mayuri S. Dhakulkar, Bhushan S. Rakhonde,

“Cost effective Android based wireless notice board” IJETER International Journal of
Emerging Technologies in Engineering Research.

In the day-to-day life, smart phone is gaining a wide range of importance in its usage
and is portable. Thus, an android smart phone can be for the purpose. An android
application is installed in the user’s smart phone which permits the transmission. At
receiver end, a low-cost microcontroller board (Arduino Uno) is programmed to receive
and display messages in any of the above communication mode. Using the developed
system, two different applications for displaying messages on a remote digital notice
board and wireless person calling has been implemented. The developed system will
therefore aim in wirelessly sharing the information with intended users and also helps in
saving the time and the cost for paper and printing hardware.

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3. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY

The proposed method consists of power supply, Arduino UNO, LED module,
Bluetooth HC-05 and mobile application. After uploading the program in Arduino UNO,
we will give them external power supply. Due to that all functions of equipment’s are on.
At that time, we will pass the notice/SMS which we want using mobile. Then this
notice/SMS will receive by Bluetooth. And by using Arduino this notice/SMS will display
on digital notice board.

This proposed system in this project has many upcoming applications in

educational institutions and organizations , crime prevention, traffic management,
railways, advertisements etc. Been user friendly, long range and faster means of
conveying information are major bolsters for this application. By using this proposed
methodology, we can enhance the security system and also make awareness of the
emergency situations and avoid many dangers.

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4. HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION

A. Arduino uno

Arduino board is the heart of our system.

Entire functioning of system depends on this
board. The Arduino Uno is a ATmega328p microcontroller board. This
board has 14 digital input/output pins (6 as a PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs,
a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and
a reset button.

The Arduino Uno is an open-source microcontroller board based on

the Microchip ATmega328P microcontroller and developed by Arduino.cc and initially
released in 2010. The board is equipped with sets of digital and analog input/output (I/O)
pins that may be interfaced to various expansion boards (shields) and other circuits. The
board has 14 digital I/O pins (six capable of PWM output), 6 analog I/O pins, and is
programmable with the Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment), via a type
B USB cable.[4] It can be powered by a USB cable or a barrel connector that accepts
voltages between 7 and 20 volts, such as a rectangular 9-volt battery. It is similar to
the Arduino Nano and Leonardo.[5][6] The hardware reference design is distributed under
a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 license and is available on the Arduino
website. Layout and production files for some versions of the hardware are also available.

The word "uno" means "one" in Italian and was chosen to mark a major redesign
of the Arduino hardware and software.[7] The Uno board was the successor of the

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Duemilanove release and was the 9th version in a series of USB-based Arduino
boards.[8] Version 1.0 of the Arduino IDE for the Arduino Uno board has now evolved to
newer releases.[4] The ATmega328 on the board comes preprogrammed with
a bootloader that allows uploading new code to it without the use of an external hardware
programmer.

While the Uno communicates using the original STK500 protocol,[1] it differs
from all preceding boards in that it does not use a FTDI USB-to-UART serial chip.
Instead, it uses the Atmega16U2 (Atmega8U2 up to version R2) programmed as a USB-
to-serial converter.

B. Bluetooth HC05

Bluetooth Terminal is an Android application

program that enables the Android PDAs to
communicate simply with a Bluetooth device via a terminal. Bluetooth Terminal
application program therefore enables the Android PDA to transmit (or
receive) the messages in either hexadecal (hex) or string format to (and from ) the
connected Bluetooth devices. At the receiver end, the HC-05 module is interfaced
with microcontroller that is programmed to store the received message and display
that to the LCD screen. The HC-05 is a very cool module which can add two- way (full-
duplex) wireless functionality. The Bluetooth module is used for transmitting data
wirelessly from the transmitter to receiver. The HC-05 module works on the
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same principle but on the different operation. The HC-05 Bluetooth module has four
pins: TX pin – Transmitting pin which is used to transmit the data. RX pin – the
pin that receives data from the receiver. VCC pin – power supply pin. GND pin –
power supply pin.

• It is used for many applications like wireless headset, game controllers, wireless
mouse, wireless keyboard, and many more consumer applications.
• It has range up to <100m which depends upon transmitter and receiver,
atmosphere, geographic & urban conditions.
• It is IEEE 802.15.1 standardized protocol, through which one can build wireless
Personal Area Network (PAN). It uses frequency-hopping spread spectrum
(FHSS) radio technology to send data over air.
• It uses serial communication to communicate with devices. It communicates with
microcontroller using serial port (USART).

HC-05 Bluetooth Module

• HC-05 is a Bluetooth module which is designed for wireless communication. This

module can be used in a master or slave configuration.

Bluetooth serial modules allow all serial enabled devices to communicate with each other
using Bluetooth.

It has 6 pins,

1. Key/EN: It is used to bring Bluetooth module in AT commands mode. If Key/EN pin

is set to high, then this module will work in command mode. Otherwise by default it is in
data mode. The default baud rate of HC-05 in command mode is 38400bps and 9600 in
data mode.

HC-05 module has two modes,

1. Data mode: Exchange of data between devices.

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2. Command mode: It uses AT commands which are used to change setting of

HC-05. To send these commands to module serial (USART) port is used.

2. VCC: Connect 5 V or 3.3 V to this Pin.

3. GND: Ground Pin of module.

4. TXD: Transmit Serial data (wirelessly received data by Bluetooth module transmitted
out serially on TXD pin)

5. RXD: Receive data serially (received data will be transmitted wirelessly by Bluetooth
module).

6. State: It tells whether module is connected or not.

HC-05 module Information

• HC-05 has red LED which indicates connection status, whether the Bluetooth is
connected or not. Before connecting to HC-05 module this red LED blinks
continuously in a periodic manner. When it gets connected to any other Bluetooth
device, its blinking slows down to two seconds.
• This module works on 3.3V. We can connect 5V supply voltage as well since the
module has on board 5 to 3.3 V regulator.
• As HC-05 Bluetooth module has 3.3V level for RX/TX and microcontroller can
detect 3.3 V level, so, no need to shift transmit level of HC-05 module. But we
need to shift the transmit voltage level from microcontroller to RX of HC-05
module.
• The data transfer rate of HC-05 module can vary up to 1Mbps is in the range of
10 meters.

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Specification of HC-05 Bluetooth Module

• Bluetooth version: 2.0 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)

• Frequency: 2.4 GHz ISM band
• Modulation: GFSK (Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying)
• Transmit power: Class 2 (up to 4 dBm)
• Sensitivity: -80 dBm typical
• Range: approximately 10 meters (or 33 feet) in open air
• Profiles supported: SPP (Serial Port Profile), HID (Human Interface Device) and
others
• Operating voltage: 3.3V to 5V DC
• Operating current: less than 50mA
• Standby current: less than 2.5mA
• Sleep current: less than 1mA
• Interface: UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter)
• Baud rates: 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400, and
460800
• Operating temperature: -20°C to 75°C (-4°F to 167°F)

Bluetooth communication between Devices

E.g. Send data from Smartphone terminal to HC-05 Bluetooth module and see this data
on PC serial terminal and vice versa.

To communicate smartphone with HC-05 Bluetooth module, smartphone requires

Bluetooth terminal application for transmitting and receiving data. You can find Bluetooth
terminal applications for android and windows in respective app. store.

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C. LCD

We utilize screen as display. LCD is utilized in a project to visualize the output

of application. Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) have supplies
which combine the properties of both liquids and crystals.

With the liquid crystal material sand witched in between them, an LCD consists
of two glass panels. The inner surface of the
glass plates are covered with transparent electrodes that identify the character,
symbols or patterns to be displayed and the polymeric
layers are present in between the electrodes and the liquid crystal, which makes the
liquid crystal molecules for maintaining a defined direction angle.

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically

modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid
crystals combined with polarizers. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly[1] but instead
use a backlight or reflector to produce images in color or monochrome.[2] LCDs are
available to display arbitrary images (as in a general-purpose computer display) or fixed
images with low information content, which can be displayed or hidden. For instance:
preset words, digits, and seven-segment displays, as in a digital clock, are all good
examples of devices with these displays. They use the same basic technology, except that
arbitrary images are made from a matrix of small pixels, while other displays have larger
elements. LCDs can either be normally on (positive) or off (negative), depending on the
polarizer arrangement. For example, a character positive LCD with a backlight will have
black lettering on a background that is the color of the backlight, and a character negative

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LCD will have a black background with the letters being of the same color as the
backlight. Optical filters are added to white on blue LCDs to give them their characteristic
appearance.

LCDs are used in a wide range of applications, including LCD

televisions, computer monitors, instrument panels, aircraft cockpit displays, and indoor
and outdoor signage. Small LCD screens are common in LCD projectors and portable
consumer devices such as digital cameras, watches, calculators, and mobile telephones,
including smartphones. LCD screens have replaced heavy, bulky and less energy-
efficient cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays in nearly all applications. The phosphors used
in CRTs make them vulnerable to image burn-in when a static image is displayed on a
screen for a long time, e.g., the table frame for an airline flight schedule on an indoor sign.
LCDs do not have this weakness, but are still susceptible to image persistence.

Specifications

Resolution The resolution of an LCD is expressed by the number of columns and rows
of pixels (e.g., 1024×768). Each pixel is usually composed 3 sub-pixels, a red, a green,
and a blue one. This had been one of the few features of LCD performance that remained
uniform among different designs. However, there are newer designs that share sub-
pixels among pixels and add Quattron which attempt to efficiently increase the perceived
resolution of a display without increasing the actual resolution, to mixed results.

• Spatial performance: For a computer monitor or some other display that is being
viewed from a very close distance, resolution is often expressed in terms of dot
pitch or pixels per inch, which is consistent with the printing industry. Display density
varies per application, with televisions generally having a low density for long-
distance viewing and portable devices having a high density for close-range detail.
The Viewing Angle of an LCD may be important depending on the display and its
usage, the limitations of certain display technologies mean the display only displays
accurately at certain angles.

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• Temporal performance: the temporal resolution of an LCD is how well it can

display changing images, or the accuracy and the number of times per second the
display draws the data it is being given. LCD pixels do not flash on/off between
frames, so LCD monitors exhibit no refresh-induced flicker no matter how low the
refresh rate.[145] But a lower refresh rate can mean visual artefacts like ghosting or
smearing, especially with fast moving images. Individual pixel response time is also
important, as all displays have some inherent latency in displaying an image which
can be large enough to create visual artifacts if the displayed image changes rapidly.
• Color performance: There are multiple terms to describe different aspects of color
performance of a display. Color gamut is the range of colors that can be displayed,
and color depth, which is the fineness with which the color range is divided. Color
gamut is a relatively straight forward feature, but it is rarely discussed in marketing
materials except at the professional level. Having a color range that exceeds the
content being shown on the screen has no benefits, so displays are only made to
perform within or below the range of a certain specification.[146] There are additional
aspects to LCD color and color management, such as white point and gamma
correction, which describe what color white is and how the other colors are displayed
relative to white.
D. Bread Board

A breadboard (sometimes called plugblock) is used for building temporary

circuits. It is useful to designers because it allows components to be removed

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and replaced easily. It is useful to the person who wants to build a circuit to
demonstrate its action, then to reuse the components in another circuit.

A breadboard, solderless breadboard, or protoboard is a construction base

used to build semi-permanent prototypes of electronic circuits. Unlike
a perfboard or stripboard, breadboards do not require soldering or destruction of tracks
and are hence reusable. For this reason, breadboards are also popular with students and in
technological education.

A variety of electronic systems may be prototyped by using breadboards, from

small analog and digital circuits to complete central processing units (CPUs).

Compared to more permanent circuit connection methods, modern breadboards

have high parasitic capacitance, relatively high resistance, and less reliable connections,
which are subject to jostle and physical degradation. Signaling is limited to about 10 MHz,
and not everything works properly even well below that frequency.

E. Jumper Wire:

A jump wire is an electrical wire, or group of them in a cable, with a connector

or pin at Stranded 22AWG jump wires with solid tips. Individual jump wires are fitted by
inserting their "end connectors" into the slots provided in a breadboard.

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5. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

A. Arduino IDE

Audino Is the required softwar environment to program the Arduino by writing

a code and upload it to the Arduino. It also outputs the results for analysis using both
serial monitor and serial plotter.

It is an Arduino software, making code compilation too easy.It is available for all
operating systems i.e. MAC, Windows, Linux and runs on the Java Platform that comes
with inbuilt functions and commands that play a vital role in debugging, editing and
compiling the code.

It is easy to use , it supports all the Arduino boards , it has a built in library which is easy
to use. The Arduino IDE is very user-friendly .

B. Arduino Automation

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It allows controlling devices using your

Arduino board (and similar boards) via Bluetooth or WIFI.BT Terminal is a terminal
app with UART serial communication protocol that transmits & receives data
wirelessly through Bluetooth connections. The app used for Robotics Communication,
Configuring Bluetooth Modules (using AT Commands), and Home Automation...

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6. RESULTS

The result of the proposed method is a simple display of the message on the LCD
screen. The output helps us to analyze that the result which was intended to achieve is so
successful.

The output displayed on the screen is the message sent using HC-05 Bluetooth
terminal. The sample message that will be displayed on the screen is seen where the
message is on the interface

ADVANTAGES
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• The electronic notice board is wireless and no need for wires for displaying the
information on the LCD display.
• It is very easy to operate and consumes less power.
• The circuit of the wireless notice board is portable.

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7. APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRONIC NOTICE BOARD

• The applications of wireless notice board mainly include public places like bus stands,
railway stations, airports, shopping malls, and parks to display the information
wirelessly.
• This project is also used in organizations, schools, and colleges.

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8. CONCLUSION

As the technology is advancing every day the display board systems are moving
from Normal handwriting display to digital display. Further to Wireless display units .
This project develops a wireless notice board system with Bluetooth connected to it, which
displays the desired message of the user through an SMS in a most populated or crowded
places. Here by introducing the concept of wireless technology in the Field of the
communication. We can make our communication more efficient and faster, with greater
efficiency. We can display the messages and with less errors and maintenance.

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9. REFERENCES

[1] Ramya R, Bavithra N, Priyanka M “Wireless E-notice board using Bluetooth

technology”, IJERT 2018.

[2] Dharmendra Kumar Sharma, Vineet Tiwari, Krishnan Kumar, et.al, “Small and
Medium Range Wireless Electronics Notice Board using Bluetooth and Zig Bee”, IEEE
INDICON 2015.

[3] M. Abila Mary, B. Pavithra, R. Sangeetha, Prof.T.C. Subbu Lakshmi “GSM based
wireless noticeboards using Arduino”, IJARTET 2019.

[4] Pooja Pawar, Suvarna Langade, Mohini Bandgar “IOT Based Digital Notice Board
using Arduino ATMega328”, IRJET 2019.

[5] Pallavi M. Banait, Nikita P. Bakale, Mayuri S. Dhakulkar, Bhushan S. Rakhonde “Cost
effective Android based wireless notice board”, IJETER 2018.

[6] Gaurav Bhardwaj, Gunjan Sahu, Rajan Kumar Mishra “IOT based smart notice
board”, IJERT 2022

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