INTELLIGENT FIRE ALERT SYSTEM USING ARDUINO

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

By the grace of almighty God, I have been able to complete this research proposal and Next we
would like to express our gratitude to our friends for their continuous encouragement and support
throughout the entire phase of the project.

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ABSTRACT

The Intelligent Fire Alert System Using Arduino is protection device that sends a text
message to the company administrator’s mobile number in case of fire occurrence. This is to
warn and notify the administrators of the fire attack. It is used when the administrator is
outside the company, or even when they were asleep. The device uses a GSM modem which
requires a SIM card to send SMS messages. The device is activated when the temperature
increases above the given level and it automatically sends a text message to the security
administrator, the electric valve start to sprinkling water from the Roto, Red LED give light
and the buzzer start to give buzzing sound. The device improves the effectiveness to which
possible incidents of fires are occurred and reported to security administrators when they are
away from Industry through long distance communication using GSM technology. It bridges
the gap between the security device and its administrator. Now that the user has been alerted,
the job of the system is over. It is now up to the user to take preventive measures.

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Contents
CHAPTER ONE..............................................................................................................................................1

1. INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................1

1.1. Background......................................................................................................................................1

1.2. Problem Statement..........................................................................................................................2

1.3. Objective of the Project...................................................................................................................2

1.4 Research questions................................................................................................................................2

1.5 Significance of the Project.....................................................................................................................2

1.4. Scope of the project........................................................................................................................3

CHAPTER TWO.............................................................................................................................................4

2. LITERATURE REVIEW............................................................................................................................4

CHAPTER THREE..........................................................................................................................................6

3. PROJECT DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY...............................................................................................6

3.1 Study area..............................................................................................................................................6

3.2 Study period..........................................................................................................................................6

3.3 Study subject.........................................................................................................................................6

3.4 Study design.........................................................................................................................................6

3.5 population.............................................................................................................................................7

3.7 Study variable........................................................................................................................................8

3.8 Data processing.....................................................................................................................................8

3.9 ethical consideration.............................................................................................................................8

3.10 operational definition..........................................................................................................................8

CHAPTER FOUR..........................................................................................................................................10

4. WORK PLAN.......................................................................................................................................10

CHAPTER FIVE............................................................................................................................................11

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5. BUDGET.............................................................................................................................................11

5.1 Budget proposal..................................................................................................................................11

CHAPTER SIX..............................................................................................................................................12

6. PLAN FOR DISSEMINATION OF FINDINGS..........................................................................................12

6.1. Expected Outcome.............................................................................................................................12

References.................................................................................................................................................13

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CHAPTER ONE

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background

The Intelligent Fire Alert System Using Arduino is device that sends a text message to the
attached mobile phone number when the temperature is above the danger limit. It is useful when
the mobile phone mobile number owners outside the house, or even when asleep. It is
preprogrammed to store the owner’s mobile number in which the device would send a text
message notifying the receive fire alert. The device uses a GSM modem which requires a SIM
card to send text messages. Intelligent Fire Alert System Using Arduino is designed to detect the
unwanted presence of fire by send SMS to a set of mobile numbers. In general, a fire alarm
system is classified as either automatically actuated, manually actuated or both. Design for an
application of Global Systems for Mobile Communication System (GSM) in automatic fire
reporting. Early detection of fire outbreak and quick responds to it is essential towards successful
fire suppression the delays occasioned during this critical moments could be as a result of
detection, reporting, locating fire site, inadequate suppression resources etc. A key aspect of fire
protection is to identify a developing fire emergency in a timely manner, and to alert the
building's occupants and fire emergency organizations. This is the role of fire detection and
alarm systems. Global system for mobile communication (GSM) is a globally accepted standard
for digital cellular communication. GSM is the name of a standardization group established in
1982 to create a common European mobile telephone standard that would formulate
specifications for a Pan-European mobile cellular radio system operating at 900 MHz frequency.
Cellular is one of the fastest growing and most demanding telecommunications applications.
GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) is a digital mobile telephony system that is
widely used in Europe and other parts of the world. GSM uses a variation of time division
multiple access (TDMA) and is the most widely used of the three digital wireless telephony
technologies (TDMA, GSM, and CDMA). GSM digitizes and compresses data, then sends it
down a channel with two other streams of user data, each in its own time slot.

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1.2. Problem Statement

Nowadays, there are lots of damages caused by fire. In Industry there is a lot of documentation
that runs the company work like, agreement with people and other organization, government
and if fire occurs there is the probability of loses such documents, the life of human as well as
loss of resources. So , In order to give an early warning to the people, the fire detector was used
to send SMS an alert on the fire detected.

1.3. Objective of the Project

1.3.1. General Objective

The main objective of this project is to design an Intelligent Fire Alert System Using Arduino
that can send SMS to user mobile number any detection of fire and to monitor using ARDUINO
and GSM modem.

1.3.2. Specific Objectives

 To simulate a design which represent this project.
 To study about the different components used in the Arduino based fire alert system.
 To design the model of this project.
 To implement a device that triggers when the temperature is above the danger limit.
 To design a portable and easy installation GSM fire alarm system

1.4 Research questions

 How can the system or design operate?

 By what means we inform the person or users the presence of fire excistence?

1.5 Significance of the Project

When the alarm triggered, it requires user to go the building itself and find the monitoring panel
in order to find the exact location of the fire detected. This process makes the early response to
be delayed. GSM based fire alarm appears to solve the drawback of conventional wired fire
alarm system. The advantages of wireless fire alarm as below:

 Low cost and straightforward installation

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 It is more flexible when adding additional sensors

 Simple to install thus avoiding the costs of hiring a professional to install the alarm.
 Sensors and devices that can be placed almost anywhere as location is not dictated by
wiring issues.

1.4. Scope of the project

This project consists two parts such as hard ware design and software implementation. We
design the hard ware and we simulate the project with the help of protest software and Arduino
micro controller respectively.

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CHAPTER TWO

2. LITERATURE REVIEW
B.E Students, Associate Professor, SR Engineering College for the title of GSM Bases industrial
security system the system is fully controlled by the microcontroller and the microcontrollers. It
can be used to provide security system for residential, industrial, and for all domestic and
commercial purposes using GSM technique Security systems are certain electronic devices
which are used to detect intrusions in home or industry. The basic components of a home
automation security system are motion detectors, LPG detectors and smoke detector. When the
user is away from home or industry, all the sensors are activated by switching on the Security
system. Whenever system experience abnormal condition in the industry like any fire/smoke
occurs in the home/industry and any intrusion into the home/industry the Security system alerts
the security personnel as well as the owner of the industry by sending SMS to the users of the
home/industry. In the system along with security, industrial lighting is also activated based on
the lighting available in the industry. The system operates with the help of sensors installed in
this system. Toufiqul Islam, SyedAsif Abdullah, and GolamSarowar are done the project of
wireless connection with the title of Design and implementation a smart control and monitoring
of fire alarm system using GSM technologies via short message service. A Short Message
Service (SMS) was used as a method of wireless connection in the designed system. The adopted
(TBoxN12Rdevice) which was programmed in Java to Micro Edition language (J2ME) will keep
scanning the received gas smoke data signal from the Gas Smoke Sensor output to pre monitor
the ability of occurrence of a fire, once it detects that the collected data (Gas Level) exceed a
predefined threshold it will enable the communication with GSM network and send the
ALARMSMS message to the predefined phone number. Also it will Turn Alarm Buzzer “ON”,
Close the Doors. And Turn Water Pumping Motor “ON”. Enhanced wireless control system for
smoke and fire detection with alarming provision, SMS sending and fire extinguishing by a

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vehicle. A smoke detector or smoke alarm is a device that detects smoke and issues an alarm to
alert nearby people that there is a potential fire. Smoke detectors can work by optical detection
(photoelectric) or by physical process (ionization), but some smoke detectors also utilize both
types of detector to increase the sensitivity to smoke enhancement done on already available
photoelectric smoke detector circuitry by integrating some distinct features like wireless
technology, SMS sending through GSM module and fire extinguishing vehicle. This features
increase the safety and reliability of the smoke and fire detection technology. The smoke
detection system can detect smoke or high temperature (potential fire) and sets off appropriate
alarm sound. It also transmits RF signal to the other smoke detector in the network. The detector
capable of sounding four different alarms for smoke, temperature, low battery and receiver. PIC
microcontroller is the heart of the system. The reason why he uses two types of sensors is to
reduce the possibility of false alarm. This project consists two parts those are transmitter and
receiver. He uses Arduino as a microcontroller to control the sensor nodes and to give alert when
there is over temperature and flame detected. The main fault of these systems is

 Most of these technologies are manual, i.e. if there is a fire incident, we have to ring the
alarm bell manually to aware the concerned authority and fire station.
 If there be a fire incident in a remote place where there is no one to aware the first
station, it will be a great loss.
 In general automated fire alarming system, there must be a computer installed. So cost
is much higher.

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CHAPTER THREE

3. PROJECT DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY

3.1 Study area

A key aspect of fire protection is to identify a developing fire emergency in a timely manner,
and to alert the building's occupants and fire emergency organizations. The scope of this alert
system is limited to the domain of the consumer premises.

 The consumer can be

 A residential,
 A public,
 A commercial or
 An industrial entity.

3.2 Study period

3.3 Study subject

Our study subject mainly focus on how to design intelligent fire alert system. that is:

 system variables are needed to be considered

 design procedures must be followed
 components required to accomplish the design
 Hardware and software development of the design

3.4 Study design

3.4.1 Hardware Development

This section covers the hardware development of the design. It shows in detail the materials and
components used in constructing the device, how the components are connected to one another,
what each component does, and the decomposition of all components. To complete the hardware
design of this project, all components must be connected to one another to form one functional
circuit.
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LCD Display
Cell Phon
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LM 35

Temperature DC

Power Arduino Motor/valv

Supply e
Boar
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Buzzer
Modul
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Figure 1 block diagram of the project

To complete the hardware design of this project, all components must be connected to one
another to form one functional circuit. The Block Diagram connects the main parts of the design.
However, these parts cannot be connected to one another directly. It also needs voltage
regulation, resistors for limiting current and voltages, oscillator, capacitors, etc

3.4.2 Software Development

The software usage, the control unit will be collaborated with the Arduino board. However, the
software features of the alarm system will be in the internal chip built inside the board. When
choosing the best software to use on the design, a number of researches are well done in terms of
programming and the environment the system being used as well as the number of inputs and
outputs, and functions. The comparison between two software to be applied carried out, the
following sub topic represent the comparison between the PIC16F 8xx and the Arduino software
and its development boards.

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3.5 population

3.6 sample size and sample procedure

3.7 Study variable

The Intelligent Fire Alert System Using Arduino is device that sends a text message to the
attached mobile phone number when the temperature is above the danger limit. so, the main
variable to be controlled in this project is temperature.

3.8 Data processing

The data processing is based on the literature reviewed in relation to the research proposal. The
data processing will be conducted in this research based on the conceptual framework developed
during the literature review to analyze the system.

3.9 Ethical Consideration

The system that we are going to design will not violate any electrical regulation and standards.

3.10 Operational Definition

 Arduino Uno: It is an open-source microcontroller based kit for building digital devices
and interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the physical world. It is based
on microcontroller board designs, manufactured by several vendors, using various
microcontrollers.
 GSM module: This module is responsible for the communication part of the circuit. It
takes information from the Arduino where to send information and what information is to
be sent. It uses a GSM SIM card for communication purposes.
 LCD display: This is used for displaying the current status of the circuit and the actions
taken by the circuit. LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen is an electronic display module
and find a wide range of applications. A16x2 LCD display is very basic module and is
very commonly used in various devices and circuit these modules are preferred over
seven segment s and to its multi segment LEDs.

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 LM 35 temperature sensor: The LM35 is an integrated circuit sensor that can be used to
measure temperature with an electrical output proportional to the temperature (in oC)
 SIM card: SIM abbreviates as Subscriber Identity Module. It is a chip-on small card
consisting of user's information as well as phone book. User can alter the operator on the
same handset as per convenience.
 Resistor: A resistor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements
electrical resistance as a circuit element. The current through a resistor is in direct
proportion to the voltage across the resistor's terminals.
 Buzzer: For alarm purposes a lot of electric bells, alarms and buzzers are available in the
market that has got different prices and uses. The buzzer being used in this project is a
512 V buzzer and has got enough alarm sound to be used in a fire alarm system. Louder
buzzer would have been even better but then their operating voltages are high as we had a
supply of maximum up to 12V available with us on the board.

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CHAPTER FOUR

4. WORK PLAN
Table 1 Timeline of the project

Task April May June

3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2

Requirement specification
and analysis
Design

Design analysis

Testing ( software

simulation)
Testing(hardware
implementation)
Documentation

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CHAPTER FIVE

5. BUDGET

5.1 Budget proposal

Table 2 Cost estimation

Tools Quantity Single price Total price

Arduino Uno R3 1 $18.82 $18.82
SIM900 GSM modem 1 $28.00 $28.00
LM35 Temperature sensor 1 $8.99 $8.99
LCD 1 $5.99 $5.99
SIM card 1 $1.11 $1.11
Buzzer 1 $9.88 $9.88
Dc motor 1 $5.9 $5.9
LED 1 $0.07 $0.07
Resistor 1 $0.75 $0.75
Valve 1 $9.85 $9.85
Breadboard 1 $7.49 $7.49
Total 11 $96.85 $96.85

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CHAPTER SIX

6. PLAN FOR DISSEMINATION OF FINDINGS

6.1. Expected Outcome

From the project the expected result is sending SMS alarm. The sensor first detects the
temperature of the environment and it transfer information to the Arduino board. While the
information is reached to Arduino board it sends text to the GSM model which can done dual
communication. That is alarming system and sending SMS. For the case of temperature of above
the limit value it notifies the user or security administrator. By that alarm and SMS to overcome
fire problem.

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References
[1]. GSM based home intrusion detection device using SMS in reporting intrusion to security
administrator by Johon Nicohlus R .Caneba.
[2] ALFRED MAZHINDUWIRELESS BURGLAR ALARM SYSTEM PROGRESS

REPORT (2012 EC university of Bradford).

[3]. AUTOMATED FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM WITH GSM ALARM. By Md. Khalilur

Rhaman BRAC University, Dhaka Spring 2014

[4]. Arduino Microcontroller Guide W. Durfee, University of Minnesota

.http://www.campuscomponent.com.
[5]. Development of A GSM - Based Fire Detector System NORSURAYA BINTI RADZUAN
WIRELESS SMOKE ALARM DETECTOR Oke A.O, Falohun A.S and AdetunjiA.B
(1988GC).

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