REMOTELY CONTROLLED ANDROID BASED

ELECTRONIC NOTICE BOARD

ABSTRACT:

Notice Board is primary thing in any institution / organization or public utility places
like bus stations, railway stations and parks. But sticking various notices day-to-day is a
difficult process. A separate person is required to take care of this notices display. This
project deals about an advanced hi-tech wireless notice board.
The main objective of the project is to develop a wireless notice board that displays
notices when a message is sent from the users android application device. Remote operation
is achieved by any smart-phone/Tablet etc., with Android OS, upon a GUI (Graphical User
Interface) based touch screen operation. While the user sends the message from the android
application device, it is received and retrieved by the Bluetooth device at the display unit.
The Bluetooth access password will only be known to the user . It is then sent to the
microcontroller that further displays the notice sent from the user on to the electronic notice
board which is equipped with a 16X2 LCD display. It uses a microcontroller from 8051
family.
The power supply consists of a step down transformer 230/12V, which steps down the
voltage to 12V AC. This is converted to DC using a Bridge rectifier. The ripples are removed
using a capacitive filter and it is then regulated to +5V using a voltage regulator 7805 which
is required for the operation of the microcontroller and other components.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

Micro controller unit (AT89C52), BLUETOOTH

Device, LCD (16x2), Resistors, Capacitors,
Diodes, Transformer, Regulator

Kiel compiler, Language: Embedded C

Or Hex Assembly
Android Application.

Serial Bluetooth Module

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This module enables you to wireless transmit & receive serial data. It is a drop in
replacement for wired serial connections allowing transparent two way data communication.
You can simply use it for serial port replacement to establish connection between MCU or
embedded project and PC for data transfer.
Features

3.3V power operation

UART interface
10 meters range
Easy to use
Minimum External Components
Status LEDs
Applications

Wireless Telemetry
Remote Data Logging
Robotics
Sensor Monitoring
Remote Programming
Specifications

Bluetooth protocol v2.0

Range 10 meters
Frequency: 2.4 Ghz ISM
Modulation: GFSK
Transmit power: 4dBm
Sensitivity: 84dBm
Rate: 2.1Mbps(Max) /160kbps(Async); 1Mbps(Sync)
Authentication & Encryption

Power Supply: +3.3 VDC 50mA

Operating Temperate: -20C to +55 C
Dimensions: 26.9 mm x 13 mm x 2.2 mm
Modes of operation
These modules have two modes: master and slave. You can set the module mode (master or
slave) of the device by AT commands.
The main function of Bluetooth serial module is replacing the serial port line, such as:
MCU to MCU communication
There are two MCUs want to communicate with each other. One connects to Bluetooth
master device while the other one connects to slave device. Their connection can be built
once the pair is established. This Bluetooth connection is equivalently liked to a serial port
line connection including RXD, TXD signals. And they can use the Bluetooth serial module
to communicate with each other. Communication between two of these Bluetooth modules
requires at least two conditions: (1) One module must be master and another module should
be slave. (2) The password must be same.

MCU to PC/Smart Phone Communication

When MCU has Bluetooth salve module, it can communicate with Bluetooth adapter of
computers and smart phones. Then there is a virtual communicable serial port line between
MCU and computer or smart phone. Driver is not required when using the module with PC
or Smart phone.

MCU to Other Slave device interfacing

The other bluetooth devices in the market mostly are salve devices, such as Bluetooth printer,
Bluetooth GPS. So, we can use master module to make pair and communicate with them.

Module Pinouts

Basic Schematic
Status LED flashes at different rates to indicate different status like searching, config,
connected.
Pair LED lights on continuously when matching and data connection is established
successfully.
Config Jumper is put to make pin#34 high, then module enters AT command mode for
configuration. Leave pin#34 floating and module is in normal working mode. Power off the
module when making this change.

Status LED
Status LED has three types of blinking status
1) Config Mode (LED blinks once a second): When the module is supplied power and
PIN34(CONFIG MODE) is input high level, Status LED output 1Hz square wave to make
the LED flicker slowly once a second. It indicates that the module is at the AT mode, and the
baud rate is 38400; This is Configuration Mode.
2) Unpaired Mode (LED blinks two times a second): When the module is supplied power
and PIN34(CONFIG MODE) is input low level or floating, Status LED output 2Hz square
wave to make the LED flicker quickly. It indicates the module is at the pairable mode.
3) Paired Mode (LED double flicker per second): Pairing is finished and module can
communicate.
Pair LED
LED comes on once the module has paired with another bluetooth module or PC or Smart
Phone. The pair LED pin goes high when module is in pairing else the pin is at low level
when unpaired.
Various types of Interfacing
The Bluetooth module works on 3.3V level only. High voltage like 5V will permanently
damage the module, so please take care in using it.
If your application requires to be operated at 5V then use a LM1117-3.3 regulator to convert
the 5V level to 3V3 level as required by module. Also protect the RXD pin against 5V TXD
signal by inserting 1K resistor in series to module RXD pin.

If you wish to connect this module to PCs Serial port which is at RS232 level, then you need
to add MAX232 circuit as shown.

Module Dimensions

Config Mode

When jumper is put on config pin making it high during power on state the module enters AT
command mode for module configuration at baud rate of 38400bps.
Then you can use a software like Terminal to configure the module. You can download
Terminal from this product page download box.
Here you can see we are entering various AT commands and getting response from module.

Here you can see we are setting different configuration and module is responding with OK.

Frequently used AT Commands

AT Command structure: all command should end up with \r\n (Hex: 0x0D 0x0A) as the
terminator. For full AT command download PDF AT-Commands.pdf from this page
download box.
Reset the master-slave role command:
AT+ROLE=0 ----Set the module to be slave mode. The default mode is slave.
AT+ROLE=1 ----Set the module to be master mode.
Set memory command:
AT+CMODE=1
Set the module to make pair with the other random Bluetooth module
(Not specified address). The default is this mode.
AT+CMODE=0
Set the module to make pair with the other Bluetooth module (specified
address). If set the module to make pair with random one first, then set the module to make
pair with the Bluetooth module has specified address. Then the module will search the last
paired module until the module is found.
Reset the password command
AT+PSWD=XXXX
Set the module pair password. The password must be 4-bits.
Reset the baud rate
AT+UART= <Param>,<Param2>,<Param3>.
Example:
AT+UART=9600,0,0 ----set the baud rate to be 9600N81
Reset the Bluetooth name
AT+NAME=XXXXX

Steps to set module to MASTER

Power on module in config mode, module comes into AT Command Response Status.
Open Hyperterminal or other communications tool, set the baud rate to 38400, 8 data bits, 1
stop bit, no parity bit, no flow control
Via TTL serial port, send characters "AT + ROLE = 1 r n",if successful, return "OK r n",
where r n is carriage return.
Remove Config jumper, re-power, then in Master state, automatically search for slave
module and connect.
Brief AT commands to query module parameters
AT responds OK.
AT+RESET responds OK.
AT+VERSION? responds with the firmware version.
AT+ORGL responds OK and restores default state.
AT+ADDR? responds with module address.
AT+NAME? responds with module name.
AT+NAMEname where name 20 or fewer characters. Responds OKname. Retained across
power offs.
AT+RNAME? responds with remote paired module's name.
AT+ROLE? responds with 0=slave, 1=master, 2=slave-loop (loopback: receives master
device data and sends back to master).
AT+CLASS? responds with device type (32 bit indicating device type and what is
supported).
AT+PSWD? responds with password.
AT+PSWD=password sets module pairing password to password.
AT+UART=x,y,z where x is 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400, 460800,
921600, 1382400 for baud rate, where y is 0=1 bit, 1=2 bits stop bit, where z is 0=none,
1=odd, 2=even parity). Deafult is 9600,0,0.
AT+UART? responds with +UART:baud,stop bits,parity.
AT+STATUS? responds with the module status (+STATE:initialised, ready, pairable, paired,
inquiring, connecting, connected, disconnected).
AT+PAIR=x,y sets the remote Bluetooth device address with which to pair where x is the
address (eg 12:34:56:ab:cd:ef) and y is the limited time of the connection in seconds.
Interfacing with Andriod Smart Phone - Blueterm App
BlueTerm (this is a free app for android and you can found it in the Google Play market)
Terminal emulator for communicating with any serial device using a bluetooth serial adapter.
The RFCOMM/SPP protocol emulates serial communications over bluetooth.

First you must enable Bluetooth on your telephone. Search the bluetooth device and pair with
it (the password is 1234). Then open BlueTerm and select the device.

Adding Bluetooth Device on PC

The Bluetooth module runs the SPP (Serial Protocol over Bluetooth) protocol. So any device
supporting SPP can connect to it. On a PC this looks like a virtual COM port. I show here the
steps for Windows (running Windows 7).
It seems that Apple (iPhone, iPAD, etc) does *not* support SPP, so connecting with an
iPhone is not possible. Android works, or any PC machine with Bluetooth Dongle.

From the Device Manager, select Add a Device:

Then the new device should show up:

The name of the device shows here for me blue1, as I have named it as such with AT config.
You might get default name.
Select the device and press Next. In the next dialog select Enter the devices pairing code:

The default pairing code is 1234:

Pressing next, and device drivers will be installed:

Then the device is ready to use:

And the confirmation dialog shows up:

COM Port used by Device

Checking the properties on the newly added device shows that it supports SPP. And it shows
the virtual COM port used:

Using that COM port shown for the SPP service, You can connect with any terminal program
on the host PC to my remote bluetooth board.
Any Data transmitted to this COM port appears at TX out pin of bluetooth module and same
for received data.
Unbinding and Trouble Shooting
In case there are issues with connecting to the module, it is necessary to unbind and re-bind
(connect) to the module. It happened to me sometimes Im able to connect once, but then not
any more. In that case the following steps help:
Close any terminal program potentially connected to the Bluetooth virtual COM

port.

Unpower the Bluetooth module so it is not visible any more to the PC.
Right click on the device in the Windows Device manager (or Devices and Printer
group) and select Remove Device:
Re-power the module: the red LED shall be blinking as not connected.
Search for the device in the device manager (as above), and connect again to the
device with a pairing pin.
Connect to the module using the COM port specified for the SPP service.

If your PC does not have bluetooth capability then you can easily add by using a commonly
available "Bluetooth USB Dongle" like below