IMPLEMENTATION OF FLEX SENSOR FOR HAND GESTURE BASED WIRELESS AUTOMATION OF JCB MACHINE

Kapil R. Dhanwani, Jayesh P. Gindani

Abstract: The project is totally based on automation. It has been made to contribute in the field industry. Many Projects have been undertaken previously to develop automatic JCB using various technology like Remote control, Zig bee control etc. But none have such Dual Mode feature like Flex Sensor control and DTMF control with LDR sensor, Flame Detector and IR sensor integrated on a single chip. This project will not require a worker sitting inside a JCB and can be run from outside with more comfortable and more accuracy and is also cost effective and requires low maintenance. It can be controlled by simple hand gestures. It employs a Flex sensor which controls the JCB’s movements like up-down and 360 degree clockwise and anticlockwise rotation by bending it and making our JCB move accordingly. Also if any problem occur in Flex Sensor then we can switch to other mode of operation which is DTMF. Using which we can easily control our JCB worldwide through cell phone. The entire core of the project lies in the microcontroller which is a device used to establish automation. The main aim of this paper is to implement a JCB with Dual mode of operation. It also includes other features like IR sensor to detect any obstacle in field work like excavation, LDR sensor to make our JCB work at night also by automatically illuminating the LED’s in the dark places. Flame Detector to detect fire when any kind of accident occur.

Keywords: Flex sensor, DTMF control, IR sensor, Flame detector etc…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0411011