Final Year Project Progress Report 17/18 (UNIKL BMI)

JOURNAL 2 WeMos D1 mini At the end of 2015 the hottest alternative seems to be the WeMos D1 mini. It has roughly the same width as a V2 NodeMCU devkit but at 34.2mm it is nearly a third shorter. It runs an ESP-8266EX MCU and provides 4MB flash. Its nine GPIO pins make the D1 mini suitable for a large IoT target audience. It supports both Arduino and NodeMCU. WeMos also sells a number of shields of equal size which allows to build nicely stackable units. The only downside for many may be that you have to solder the pins yourself. Each D1 mini comes with a pair of long and short female pins and a pair of normal pins. Some reports on the Internet claim that it can be a bit difficult to get proper drivers for the CH34x USB to serial chip on the D1 mini. That’s the same chip used by some of the cheap Arduino clones. Also, it’s obviously got a few pins less than the NodeMCU boards, check the pin map. On the other hand it’s also got a 5V out just like the LoLin V3. Cr...

JOURNAL 1 RASPBERRY PI VS ARDUINO What is the difference between the two? An Arduino is a microcontroller motherboard. A microcontroller is a simple computer that can run one program at a time, over and over again. It is very easy to use. A Raspberry Pi is a general-purpose computer, usually with a Linux operating system, and the ability to run multiple programs. It is more complicated to use than an Arduino. What would I use each for? Arduino is best used for simple repetitive tasks: opening and closing a garage door, reading the outside temperature and reporting it to Twitter, driving a simple robot. Raspberry Pi is best used when you need a full-fledged computer: driving a more complicated robot, performing multiple tasks, doing intense calculations. A simple rule of thumb to decide? Think about what you want your project to do. If you can describe it with less than two ‘and’s, get an Arduino. If you need more than two ‘and’s, ...

SUBMISSION OF THE  PROPOSAL Basically nothing much in this week. The Project Proposal was submitted to Sir Syamsul Adlan. After the submission, I continued on how to develop my system. From all the research I’ve made, I was trying to create the system. This log book will be continued on the next semester and it will be about my developing of the system. The conclusion that I can made throughout the process of FYP 1 : Referring to the previous chapter, the objectives of this project must be completed in order to make it success. One of the objectives is to develop a prototype of autogate using smartphone application. This can be considered as a low cost embedded system. Others objective is to provide camera by detecting any other outsider come to house. This is important part of the project. Since, this project focusing on safety of the user on home. So it will prevent any criminal case such as burglary, rapist and others. In order to achieve the objectives, to develop a pr...

JOURNAL 3 AUTOMATIC GATE OPENING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES WITH RFID OR PASSWORD This journal will explain automatic gate opening system for vehicles with RFID or password. Hence, the main objective of this project is to provide security in an organization by allowing only the authorized personnel to access the secure area. Besides that, the security of any organization is a priority for the authorities. So the concern is for the physical property and also for the intellectual property. For this reason only the authorized person with a valid RFID tag is allowed into the secured premises. Furthermore, this tag contains an integrated circuit that is used for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating the radio frequency signal that is being transmitted. Thus, once the person shows the RFID tag to the card reader it scans the data present in the tag and compares it with the data present in the microcontroller. So when the data matches with that in the mi...

JOURNAL 2 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MICROCONTROLLER BASED AUTOMATIC DOOR AND VISITOR COUNTER This journal about microcontroller based automatic door control with visitor counter was designed to automatically open a door once somebody approaches the door without the need for any switch, button or handle. Hence, the system also has a module that serves as visitor counter and as such, counts the number of entries in and out of the building. In this design, the door is made to slide open once the sensor picks up a signal implying that somebody is approaching the door. Besides that, the door stays open for few minutes while the microcontroller checks the condition of the sensor. So if the sensor still senses the presence of somebody, the door stays open. Else, the door closes while waiting for the next time to open. The design is with multi-message display using seven segment displays. In this design the hardware components are solely coordinated by t...

JOURNAL 1 SMART HOME AUTOMATION SECURITY SYSTEM BASED ON IOT This paper is focuses on the security of a home, energy production of the home, and energy efficiency of the home. Some security system in the house include fingerprint scanner, CCTV surveillance. Besides that, the energy sources are solar power, piezo electric generation. The main objective of home automation and security is to help handicapped and aged people that will enable them to control home appliances and alert them in critical situations.  Furthermore, the Internet Of Things is a concept where user can connect distinct physical objects and control their operations through internet to make life more flexible and efficient. So the concept of smart home allows a user to connect and communicate with the surrounding conveniently without disturbing the user’s comfort. The security is an important aspect or feature in the smart home. Home automation refers to control the home appliances by using com...

PRESENTATION DAY All of the candidates of Final Year Project 1 were having the Project Proposal Presentation and have been assessed by the given assessors. Before that, all the candidates need to follow the procedures that given then can start the presentation. Around 30 minutes early, the candidates do all the setting setup things to give the best performance...Below are assessors for my Project Proposal Presentation. Date: 22 November 2017 Time: 2PM - 5.30PM Venue: Gemilang Hall, Unikl BMI After I done the presentation about "TO DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOGATE USING SMARTPHONE FOR RESIDENCY APPLICATION" .. Overall the presentation are going well both of the slide presentation and performance. But, there is some error that I need to redo again. The advises from my assessors which is the my hardware that must change from NodeMcu to Respberry Pi because the NodeMcu not support the camera.. For my explanation of the running project are very well and can be un...