SOLAR POWERED CHARGING AND MOBILE APP CONTROL ABSTRACT Human comfort is that condition of mind, which expresses itself with the thermal environment. This project concentrate on conditioning the thermal environment about 5 degree higher or lower than the ambient so as to produce comfort to human body according to the ambient conditions. The main objective of the project is to design a highly reliable and wearable jacket that controls extreme temperatures for people working in extreme weather conditions. The Thermo-electric module uses Peltier effect which converts the electrical energy applied from the ends of the Thermo-electric module into the temperature difference which can either produce cooling and heating on either sides of the module. EXISTING SYSTEM Temperature of the jacket is controlled using Thermoelectric cooler and temperature sensor connected to a microcontroller. The temperature of the suite varies automatically according to preset limits. Power supply for the suit is connected to a Li-Ion battery pack. DRAWBACKS The battery back up of the Li-Ion battery pack is low. If the battery gets discharged the suit fails and one have to recharge it by connecting to a charger. The user cannot monitor or control the suit temperature. PROPOSED SYSTEM The project mainly points on the development of a portable air-conditioning unit that facilitate the on sight comfort of workers by heating or cooling the jacket worn by them according to the weather temperatures. The Thermo-Electric module has two sides, and when DC current flows through the device, it brings heat from one side to the other, so that one side gets cooler while the other gets hotter. The heat sink attached to the device will spread off the hot or cold from either of the sides to the pipe attached to the jacket according to the ambient conditions. The temperature of the suit is monitored with a temperature sensor and controlled using Bluetooth through a Smart phone mobile App. A Solar charging unit is designed to charge the batteries while using in remote areas, thus improving battery backup. ADVANTAGES The suit is installed with a long battery backup battery. Battery is automatically charged with a solar charge controller which further improves standby time. The suit temperature can be monitored and controlled using a smart phone based mobile app by the user. BLOCK DIAGRAM HARDWARE DETAILS Thermoelectric coolers (TECs): Thermoelectric coolers are also called as peltier plates or peltier coolers. TECs work on the basic principle of peltier effect which either can produce heating or cooling according to the applied voltage. HARDWARE DETAILS LM35 Temperature Sensor: The LM35 series are precision integrated-circuit temperature devices with an output voltage linearly-proportional to the Centigrade temperature. HARDWARE DETAILS HC-05 Bluetooth Module: HC‐05 module is an easy to use Bluetooth SPP (Serial Port Protocol) module, designed for transparent wireless serial connection setup. It is a fully qualified Bluetooth V2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) 3Mbps. Modulation with complete 2.4GHz radio transceiver and baseband. HARDWARE DETAILS Control Relay Driver : The Relay Driver Module makes it simple and convenient to drive loads such as 12V relays from simple 5V digital outputs of microcontroller or compatible board. Any of the control channels can be used independently. HARDWARE DETAILS ATmega32 Microcontroller HARDWARE DETAILS ATmega32 is very much similar to ATmega16 microcontroller with certain differences which are discussed below. ATmega32 is an 8-bit high performance microcontroller of Atmel’s Mega AVR family. Atmega32 is based on enhanced RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) architecture with 131 powerful instructions. ATmega32 has 32 KB programmable flash memory, static RAM of 2 KB and EEPROM of 1 KB. The endurance cycle of flash memory and EEPROM is 10,000 and 100,000, respectively. CONCLUSION By using this project in real time applications the thermal jacket can help peoples to work even in extreme weather conditions. Combined with integrated solar charge control and optional battery/charger systems, it provides the conveniences of back-up and always ON, on- demand small scale solar electrical power. The use of solar panel gives continuous output of power without less maintenance. A mobile phone app is designed to monitor and control the temperature of the suit using Bluetooth connectivity. APPLICATIONS Thermal power plants Military Soldiers
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