DAR ES SALAAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATION

ENGINEERING
BENG-20 ETE 2
COMMUNICATION SKILLS

TITLE: CUP DETECTING WATER DISPENSING SYSTEM

GROUP 3 MEMBERS

NAME REGISTRATION NUMBER

FADHILI B. MIGONGO 200640726176
ADAM FOFO 200640726457
PATRICK CLEOPHACE BITEGELA 200640725806
LIPENDA WAMBURA 200640725541
SAIDI MDEMU 200640725616
 PROJECT OBJECTIVE
The main objective is to minimize contamination of drinking water at the water dispenser

PROCEDURES USED TO ACCOMPLISH THIS PROJECT

i. Project’s requirements (specific objectives) were identified. Identified requirements were:
a. To design the power supply system
b. To design the sensing unit
c. To design the control circuit
d. To design the switching circuit
ii. Literature review was conducted by checking previous related projects. Such as Voice
based Water Dispensing system. This was done to avoid
a. Doing exactly what is already done.
b. To improve the limitations of previous projects.
iii. Data collection was done by
a. Checking the need of this project in the society through observation.
b. Checking technical information about electronic components to be used
iv. Data analysis was done by
a. Collected data interpretation,
b. Establishment of the relationship between variables and calculation to meet the
objectives of the project.
v. Design of electronic circuit was done. Which involved design of: -
a. Power supply
b. The sensing unit as input
c. Control circuit
d. Switching circuit
e. Finally, integration of the designed parts of the circuit as shown in the Figure 1
below
vi. The designed electronic circuit was simulated in the Proteus version 8.6 and worked as
expected. Below were the calculated and simulated results.

TEST POINT CALCULATED VALUE SIMULATED VALUE

Ac voltage supply 220V 220V

Output voltage from a transformer 18.85V 14.0V
Output voltage from a rectifier 12.76V 12.72V
Output voltage from a 5V regulator 5.0V 5.00V

LED1 1.6V 2.19V

Op-Amp Vin 4.3V 4.61V
Op-amp Vo 1.806V 3.51V
LED2 1.6V 2.356V
Relay Coil Voltage 4.3V 4.89V
Solenoid Valve load voltage 12.0-24.0V 12.0V

CONCLUSION
The aim of this project is to reduce contamination of drinking water at the water dispenser, the
process to come up with a cup detecting water dispensing system in this project has been done
from the introduction, methodology, data collection, analysis to circuit simulation. The
simulation has been tested and it worked as expected.