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Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi (INDIA)

Solar Powered Smart Bag

Vikas Varshney Manish Nath Tiwari
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Northern India Engineering College Northern India Engineering College
New Delhi, INDIA New Delhi, INDIA
Email: vikas.varshney@niecdelhi.ac.in Email: yourmanish223@gmail.com

Pranjal Jha Deepak Gupta

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Northern India Engineering College Northern India Engineering College
New Delhi, INDIA New Delhi, India
Email: gdeepak256@gmail.com

Abstract—With the increasing modernization of technology,
Smart Bag is an application-specific design that can be useful for
almost everyone in the society. Smart means intellectual, the bag
will be intellectual enough to carry out different features for daily
use. This bag consists of several equipment like mobile phone
charging ports, Spy camera device, GPS tracker, Tiffin heater,
Sound Card. TP4056 Charging module has been used to charge
18650 Li Po batteries (4 cells are used, each of 2500mAh) by
battery charger. Two solar panels are used for charging the
batteries. One main feature of the bag is its Tiffin heating section
which can be used to heat the food anywhere while travelling. The
efficient utilization of bag is that one can charge the mobile phone
and laptop with charging ports, listen music, record video
through camera, and track bag (in case of theft) by GPS tracker
attached in bag.
Keywords—Solar Panel, GPS, Bluetooth module, Tiffin heater,
spy camera, sound card.
generation. One main feature of this bag is the Tiffin Heating
Section which can be utilized to heat the food while travelling.
Bluetooth inside the bag will be even used to track the mobile
if it is in range of bag or not [3]. If Bluetooth linkage between
mobile and bag is broken, then alert beep and vibration will be
generated in bag as well as user will get alert about missing
device on mobile. Next section will discuss about the block
diagram of Smart Bag Circuit.
II. PROJECT ARCHITECTURE
A. Block Diagram
Fig. 1 represents the block diagram of smart bag circuit.
The bag consists of several equipment which like solar panel,

I. INTRODUCTION
With the increasing modernization of technology and living
standards among the citizens, their needs are also getting
increased. Therefore, they require a smart bag which will be
able to fulfill their smart needs. Smart bag is designed as per
these requirements. In this project, front part of bag is roofed
with solar cell, which will continuously produce power
through day light while we travel. Inside structure consists of
rechargeable battery for a usage like charging mobile phone,
laptop or tab [1], [2]. Smart Bag is equipped with GPS to
prevent from theft, special Section for heating Tiffin, Spy
camera to record video, music player with Bluetooth and a
Solar power chargeable centralised battery. All these
equipment has been embedded in a bag with a centralised
Power Core without decreasing the strength of the bag. The
material of the bag is Canvas and Rexin which ensures the
strength as well as the light weight of the bag. There will be a
subtle change in weight in smart bag.
Solar Powered Smart Bag is a next generation Bag Pack
which fulfils the professional need of today’s and tomorrow’s

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Fig. 1 Block diagram of Solar Powered Smart Bag Circuit
Fig. 2 Providing power Supply to MD81s Spy Camera
mobile phone charging ports, Spy camera device, GPS
tracker, Tiffin heater, Sound Card. TP4056 Charging module
has been used to charge 18650 Li Po batteries(4 cells are used,
each of 2500mAh) by battery charger. Two solar panels of 5V
each are used for charging the batteries by solar energy. To
record Snap and video, MD81s Spy camera is added and a
GPD2856C Mp3 module for listening songs.
B. Hardware Description
• MD81s SPY Camera: The MD81s Camera is installed
at front side of the bag with proper alignment and
perfectly sewed with the bag and slightly covered to
decrease the exposure of its body from outsiders. In
spite of all jerks and shocks, the camera does not
displaced due its proper sewing on the bag. There is a
constant supply to the spy camera through our
centralized power source, of 5V as shown in Fig. 2. The
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supply is provided through a Type B cable. The power
supply can be cut through a Toggle switch, which is
installed at one side of the bag which is near to right
hand reach for easy operation. No wire fuss is shown
since all the wiring is covered inside the bag from the
camera to the power source. Appearance of the bag is
also taken care and no wire is shown in the project.
• Antilost GPS Tracker: The GPS provides critical
positioning capabilities to military, civil, and
commercial users around the world. This anti-lost
device, shown in Fig. 3, adopts latest Bluetooth 4.0 low
consumption technology, and through corresponding
app to realize all the functions. It can effectively protect
the bag from being stolen or lost within 10m effective
distance range. When the GPS installed bag is out of
this range, the connected phone and this iTag will
automatically ring for a timely warning [4].
Fig. 3 Antilost GPS tracker Device
Fig. 4 Tp4056 Type B charging module with charger connected for Output
Connection of batteries to the Modules and Solar Panel
• TP4056 Charging module: The TP4056 is a complete
constant-current/constant-voltage linear charger for
lithium-ion/ Li Po batteries. We have used 4 Li Po
Batteries, 2500mAh each. They are connected parallel;
Summing up will be 10,000 mAh. The objective of
TP4056 Charging module is to charge those batteries
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and provide protection circuit of batteries from over
charging. There are two modules, of which one is for
charging the batteries and the other is for drawing
power from the batteries. Two Solar panel of 2W each
output is connected in parallel to an 18650 charging
module and that module is connected to LIPO batteries
as shown in Fig. 4.
• MP3 Player Module: The GPD2856 player module
shown in Fig. 5, is installed inside the bag with proper
alignment and perfectly sewed with the bag. The
constant supply is provided to the mp3 module from
centralized power source through a cable. A switch for
power supply is installed near right hand side of the bag
for easy operation.
• Tiffin heater: The 40W/220V light weighted electric
tiffin heater shown in Fig. 6, is sewed inside the bag to
protect from displacement while traveling. The material
used for heating purpose is Nichrome plate as shown in
Fig. 6. It has a capacity to hold at least 500 ml to 1000
ml, making ideal for a single meal for the average
appetite.
Fig. 5 GPD2856C Mp3 Module
Fig. 6 Nichrome Tiffin Heater Plate
III. WORKING OF SMART BAG
Front part of the bag is covered with solar panel. Solar
panel will charge the Rechargeable Battery (12V Lithium-ion
battery).The power generated with the help of solar panel will
be continuously getting stored in rechargeable battery [6]. This
power will be useful in charging of various devices like mobile
phones, laptops, etc. For serial communication HC05
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Bluetooth module is used. GPS is used for anti-theft and anti
lost purpose. If the bag is moved away more than 10m range of
mobile, then GPS will start to ring the alarm and the mobile
will also start to vibrate due to connectivity of GPS to mobile.
This GPS can also track the location of bag on the Google
Maps that is quite useful in case of theft and lost purpose.
Spy camera can be easily connected to mobile phones via
9527 application which use WiFi as connection media. SD
card implementation option is provided in the camera so it can
record videos without using mobile [5].
Tiffin heater section of the bag is contained with a heating
plate covered in Mica. This plate can heat the Tiffin in 15-20
minutes by connecting this to outer power supply. The best
part of Tiffin heater is that it doesn’t damage other accessories
and material of the bag. 220V, 50Hz is needed to generate
heating effect on the heating plate by resistive heating.
IV. CONCLUSION
Smart bag is an innovative carry bag that makes human life
easier. Carrying luggage is the main difficulty faced by each
and every traveler. Here we try to provide the optimum
utilization of a smart bag for a traveler and also providing
better security and intellectual features that suitable for modern
era. In this project, different sections have been provided such
as Tiffin heating section, charging module for laptop, smart
phones, etc, sound card for listening music, spy camera, GPS
for anti-theft purpose. The designing of bag has been done by
considering the production cost to be less.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Special acknowledgement to Ms. Shashi Kumari, Assistant
Professor, EEE, NIEC (affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh
Indraprastha University, New Delhi) for her writing assistance
and language editing.
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