A WSN AND EMBEDDED BASED KITCHEN

MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM

ABSTRACT

The design and development of a smart monitoring and controlling system

for kitchen environment in real time has been reported in this paper. The system
principally monitors kitchen environment parameters such as room temperature,
fire detection, motion detection and LPG leakage, etc has been developed. The
system can monitor the status of kitchen and send an alert SMS via GSM
network automatically if the conditions get abnormal, to a concerned authorities
mobile phone. The concerned authority can control the system through his
mobile phone by sending AT Commands to GSM MODEM, which is password
protected. This system finds a wide application in areas where physical presence
is not possible all the time. The GSM and ARM7 microcontroller are used in the
implementation of sensor module. The system offers a complete, low cost,
powerful and user friendly way of real-time monitoring and control of parameters
in the kitchen. A prototype model is developed and tested with high accuracy
result.

The data is gathered through the wireless sensor network (WSN) present
in the kitchen and feeds the data to the control unit for performing the automatic
control action. In addition a message is sent to the concern mobile through the
GSM modem about these conditions when any of the parameter goes abnormal.
The sensing parameters are designed using individual sensor network for each
and every parameter that monitors and performs the control action. For example
if the gas leak is detected, automatically the gas regulator is turned off and SMS
is sent to the concern mobile. The same way, other parameters like temperature,
fire, intruder detection, etc sensing circuits are also designed and monitored and
controlled effectively. The system designed with these parameters is quite useful
for the kitchens at domestic side and in the industries at commercial side as well.

Recent developments in wireless communications and electronic devices

have considerably contributed to the evolvement of low cost densely deployed
sensor networks. Sensor network applications are diverse, ranging from civil to
military applications and domestic (kitchen) applications is not exception for this.
Many applications of wireless sensor network (WSN) are useful only when
connected to an external network. In this project work we are proposing a low
cost wireless sensor network, which will automatically control the abnormalities
and also transfer monitored parameters to the outside world using an existing
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) network.