Phone operated controller device

The urban houses utilizes a variety of appliances like Air conditioner, heater, lights , refrigerator , internet router e.t.c. While we are at home we utilize home appliances but when we are at office or out of the city, we can afford a switching device to control home appliances through just a call from any mobile phone or landline .To control many of such electrical and electronic appliances through a phone call can be energy and time saving alternative to manual control . In our controller device we have made use of Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) decoding Integrated circuit (IC), a micro-controller IC, sugar cube relays, connecting wires, a cell phone and other electronic circuitry. The user in order to control the appliances should make a call to the cell phone attached to the controller device from any phone, which can send DTMF signals on pressing the numeric buttons. The controller device unit will be kept at home.The cell phone in the controller device will be kept in auto answer mode. So, after a ring the cell phone accepts the call. Now the user may press any button on his phone according to the requirement, that is for different appliance we have dedicated different numeric key. The DTMF tones thus produced are recieved by the cellphone in the device controller. These tones are fed to the circuit by head set of the cell phone. An DTMF decoder IC decodes the recieved tone and sends equivalent binary number to the micro controller. According to the program in the micro controller the device controller controls the device, the input to the circuit from the device controller cell phone is given through headset at the 2nd and 3rd pins of DTMF decoder IC. The decoded digital data will be given out by the decoder IC. These digits are negated using 4 NOT gates of a Hex Inverter IC. This inverted input will be given to the port A of micro-controller at 37, 38, 39 and 40 pins.The micro-controller is programmed to give output at port D, to the relay driver IC. The relay driver IC (ULN2003) in turn will drive the relays which will activate different load(appliances).Thus we can control the home appliances or any electronic, electrical device from anywhere in the world with just a call.