HITEC University

Electrical Engineering

Project Report of Lab (Power System Protection)

Arduino based Frequency Meter

Submitted By

Omar Abdul Jabbar 17-EE-038

Hira Saghir 17-EE-051

Sana Majid 17-EE-038

Section D

Semester: 8th

Submitted to:

Sir Waqas Ali

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 ABSTRACT

This simulation based project enables to measure frequency of an electrical signal

using Arduino Uno, it determines sinusoidal wave in the range 20Hz-5KHz. The
implementation involves counting the total number of pulses per second that
appear at a digital pin of Arduino, it has been used to measure frequency and duty
cycle of pulses and display it on LCD. frequency meter works by using a counter
which gathers the number of events occurring within a specific period of time.
After gate time also known as present time e.g 1 second, the value in the counter is
transferred to a display and the counter is reset to zero.

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Introduction:

The function of this simulation is to make things simplified, instead of using

oscilloscope which required laborious work of certain conversion and calculation
as well. This simple simulation will simply count the signal per second in no time
as soon we provide it input.

Arduino (microcontroller) can be simply programmed according to our required

output. Theaim of this Arduino based frequency meter is to create an accessible
way for engineers to implement the world of microcontroller programming in field
work of power. Arduino is a microcontroller interface built around an Atmel
ATmega processor.

Software:

Arduino Software (IDE)

Procedure:

code

Observation:

after running the code

Conclusion:

It has been concluded after simulating this project that how for different signals,
frequency can be measured by programming Arduino. Activity is observed per
complete cycle and is recorded by counters. This simulation has eliminated the use
of oscilloscope for frequency measuring purpose which is not only expensive but

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also requires calculation. However with the help of this simulation frequency will
be measured and display results digitally on LCD which made ease for engineers.

The End

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