PC BASED
ELECTRICAL LOAD CONTROL
ABSTRACT
The aim of this project is to control
the electrical appliances through a personal computer (PC). For example,
theatre lighting can be centrally controlled form the PC for better stage
management. Presently, they are manually managed which makes it difficult to
coordinate the lighting with the respective scene. With this system, one can control
the electrical appliances ON/OFF by just being seated at one place using a PC.
This system is integrated with the electrical
loads and also connected to the PC where centralized control takes place. It uses
an RS-232 protocol from the microcontroller to communicate with the PC. To turn
on/off the appliances, we use Hyper Terminal on PC. Once the connection is
established with the PC, then the system starts working. The microcontroller
used in this project belongs to 8051 family.
This project can be further enhanced by
implementing a GUI based control panel on the PC with appropriate embedded
software. The intensity control can also be incorporated using power
electronics devices.
Note:
The project works only on operating systems having hyper
terminal (E.g. Windows XP). The computer must have a RS232 serial port.
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