POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN HOTELS USING PC

In this competitive world and busy schedule human cannot spare more time to perform his daily activities manually. This project is a standalone PC based Power Management system for Hotels using AT89S52 microcontroller. This project is useful in all applications where automation of electrical appliances is required. Use of embedded technology makes this closed loop feedback control system efficient and reliable. Microcontroller (AT89S52) allows dynamic and faster control. AT89S52 micro controller is the heart of the circuit as it controls all the functions.

The main aim of this project is to control electrical appliances and save power by means of PC using PCs hyper terminal window. The person sitting in the reception can continuously check the loads being operated in the rooms and can switch off them wherever not required just by sitting in front of his PC. The controlling of loads is done by TRIAC. The main advantage of using a TRIAC to vary the status of loads is the TRIAC reduces the energy flow to the loads and TRIAC works very well for alternating currents.

In order to control the electrical appliances through PC, data transfer must be ensured between PC and 8051 system. Serial data communication uses a single data line which makes it not only cheaper but also enables two computers located in two different cities to communicate over the telephone.

There are special IC chips made by many manufacturers for serial data communication. These chips are usually referred to as USART(Universal synchronousasynchronous receiver-transmitter) and UART(Universal asynchronous receivertransmitter). 8051 chip has an in-built UART i.e., it has an integrated serial port which enables one to read and write values to the serial port very easily.

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE TOOLS: Software Tools: 1. Keil compiler 2. Orcad.

Hardware Tools: 1. Microcontroller AT89S52. 2. PC 3. MAX232 4. LED array 5. TRIAC and TRIAC driver

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