THE AUTOMATIC VERTICAL BLIND
ANGLE REGULATOR WITH
ACCUMULATOR SUPPLY
Luthfansyah Mohammad Endro Wahjono
Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering
Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya
(PENS) (PENS)
Surabaya, Indonesia Surabaya, Indonesia
Luthfan48@gmail.com Endro@pens.ac.id
Abstract— The times and technology that are rapidly
increasing in various fields are in fact inversely proportional to
the impact produced. Waste produced by electricity for daily
activities greatly affects the quality of the natural ecosystem of
humans and other living things. It is feared that it will become
a reality, so a technology design concept is needed that can
reduce excess electricity consumption. The use of
environmentally friendly technology design called Green
Building is actually capable of being the answer to many
aspects of human needs without causing destructive effects.
However, the results of the performance of the Green Building
tool have not been able to reach the optimal position when
applied in various sectors of buildings and offices, especially in
the lighting section. Furthermore, in order to support the
reduction of electricity consumption in the lighting sector
during the daytime, several studies have focused on making the
design of buildings and parts of buildings environmentally
friendly, which can work and operate as well as possible but
with minimal electricity resources. There needs to be further
research related to packaging, and increasing efficiency in
lighting the concept of the Green Building room in accordance
with the design to achieve optimal results.
Keywords— Angle of vertical blinds, Light intensity,
ATMega16, Battery
I. PREFACE
Increasing human needs every time makes nature
constantly have to erode its resources so that people can
always fulfill them. In addition, the raising number of people
also increase the consumption of resources. In fact, some
results in the form of waste from natural resource usage
make environmental conditions more damaged and look
worse. As a result, liquid waste, extreme climate changes,
and increasing carbon and lead content in the air become the
main pollutants in human daily life. If left unchecked and
without good control it will certainly affect and threaten
human life itself.
As a response to the complexity of these problems, the
concept of environmentally friendly and renewable energy
has begun to be promoted, which is expected to be able to
suppress the poor waste and pollution produced. So that from
there, human activities that require natural resources as fuel,
both from fossils, coal, petroleum, and others that have the
potential to damage nature are reduced and gradually
disappear.
The concept of environmentally friendly energy also
began to be innovated to various sectors of life. One of them
is green building or green building. Green Building is a
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design of building design with the same function in general
buildings, but with minimal energy use. This concept often
includes steps to reduce energy consumption - both the
energy needs for everyday life, such as the condition of the
building in terms of the ease of wind and sunlight that easily
enters the building. In addition to the operational, aspects of
implementation must also be considered. Study of the LCI
US Database Building projects that show that they are built
with wood will produce lower energy disposal than buildings
whose building materials use brick, concrete or steel[1].
To reduce energy use operations, the use of windows that
are as efficient as possible and insulation on walls, ceilings
or places of entry of air flow into the building. Another
strategy, the design of passive solar buildings, is often
carried out in low-energy homes. Effective window
placement (lighting) can provide more natural light and
reduce the need for electric lighting during the day [2].
However, even though there is no good and mass
development related to ergonomic technology that supports
this green building.
Deeper, electricity consumption is only for supplying
lighting from each building in every house, building, and
office space [3]. Not only at night, but also during the day.
Not a few lights that must be lit every time. This makes
electricity consumption more uphill. Whereas with
increasing needs, the potential for waste and waste
substances also increases.
Therefore, by considering suppressing the consumption
of resources through green building and helping reduce the
dependence of lighting through lights and electricity, a tool is
needed that is able to support both. Automatic curtain
regulator is a device that is able to adjust the tilt angle and
position of the curtain. So that it is expected from the
existence of these devices, it is automatically able to adjust
the intensity of sunlight entering into and the room gaps in
the building with the power source of the tool that comes
from the Battery
II. SYSTEM DESIGN
The following is a block system diagram, which will explain
the overall working principles of the system that will be
created.
 Fig. 1. System Block Diagram

The whole system plan can be find at figure 1. The

design of "THE AUTOMATIC VERTICAL BLIND
ANGLE REGULATOR WITH ACCUMULATOR
SUPPLY" uses the Atmega16 microcontroller as the control
center. The BH1750 sensor is an indicator of the state of
Lux's room. LCD to display Lux data after reading through
the BH1750 sensor. The stepper motor as a vertical angle
curtain regulator. The source used is a 12 volt Battery, and
the room used is a room with Lux standard ranging from
400-500[4].
Automatic vertical blinds angle control can make room
lighting easier by maximizing sunlight [5]. So that the use of
lights or other lighting devices during the day can be
reduced. In addition, users no longer need to adjust room
lighting manually where it has been replaced by lux BH1750
sensor with high precision

A. Software Design
Software planning is created to support system processes
and algorithms from input to output. In this case, software
planning includes
 Planning and making GPIO software (General Input
Output) on the Atmega16 Microcontroller.
 Planning and manufacturing of LCD software
 Planning and manufacturing of BH1750 light sensor
software
 Planning and manufacturing of Open Loop stepper
motor control software
 Planning and making Close loop system software

Fig. 2. The Flow Control Algorithm

B. Hardware Design
Hardware planning is made to support mechanical parts
and physical components which will influence the retrieval
and output of real data. In this case, hardware planning
includes
 Planning vertical blind curtain mechanics
  Planning and manufacturing of 5V and 12V voltage
regulators.
 Planning and making stepper motor drivers.
 Planning and manufacturing of BH1750 light
sensors

Fig. 4. The Curtain Rotation During Test;

Fig. 3. The Curtain Design;

III. INTEGRATION RESULT

The test held at a room in Politeknik Elektronika Negeri
Surabaya building. According to the procedure, testing is
carried out with various lux intensities. Result

Integration testing requires several equipment such as

Luxmeter, Ampere meter, Voltmeter, and Battery as power
supply.

TABLE I. INTEGRATION TEST DATA Fig. 5. The Light Respon based on Time

TIME Luxmeter Lux Sensor Lux After From the TABLE I, the light converted by the BH1750 light
(WIB) (BH1750) Curtain sensor and input as the initial data of the system. Lux data
Rotation then processed in the Atmega16 microcontroller according to
08,00 1172 1193 753 a predetermined algorithm. The output of the lux is rotating
the degree of vertical blind blinds using a stepper motor and
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producing as much lux as specified.
09,00 939 977 510
09,30 746 815 473 IV. TEST RESULTS
10,00 875 894 528 According to the data, the percentage of errors that occur
is not more than 10%, so the system can be categorized to
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run properly. Lux initial input uses a BH1750 sensor which
11,00 637 692 492 has an accuracy of reading light intensity of +/- 95%. Then
11,30 521 604 464 as a comparative data, Lux meter is used to determine the
condition of the Lux estate that is being studied.
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After doing some testing, in the future, we can improve
12,30 376 359 372 the performance of this tool, there are several things that
13,00 447 492 428 need to be done :
13,30 403 416 402 1. It is necessary to make good and good mechanical
14,00 378 352 357 calculations. So that the percentage error rate can be
significantly reduced.
14,30 369 387 365
2. It is necessary to add an algorithm in the form of
15,00 341 356 337 good control. Especially in the open loop system
15,30 307 344 312 used. Examples such as PI, PID, or Fuzzy. So that
16,00 278 318 273 the degree of accuracy of the curtain can be
maximized.
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3. In the future, Accumulator as a power supply can be
connected to the solar panel in order to reduce the
use of PLN electricity.
 V. CONCLUSION
After planning, testing and analyzing, conclusions can be
drawn from this final project, namely:
1. The degree controller rotates the blind automatic
curtain with this accumulator supply can be used as
an electric power saver room due to excessive use
of lights during the day.
2. There are several erorr in electrical systems due to
the voltage drop and error of each component.
3. Lux sensor BH1750 readings run quite well with an
error percentage of 2%
4. The integration process runs well with an error of
no more than 10%
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The work presented in this article has been supported by the
Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya lecturers, mentors,
and authors. And for the last, Thanks to the God for
allowing the author to finish research.

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