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DC Motor RPM Display On Smartphone Using Arduino

This document describes a project that uses an Arduino board to monitor the RPM of a DC motor and display it continuously on a smartphone via Bluetooth. An opto-coupler speed sensor detects the rotations of an encoded disc attached to the motor shaft and sends pulses to the Arduino, which calculates RPM. The Arduino then transmits the RPM reading to an Android phone using a Bluetooth module. The user can see the live motor speed update on their phone screen through an app.

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DC Motor RPM Display On Smartphone Using Arduino

This document describes a project that uses an Arduino board to monitor the RPM of a DC motor and display it continuously on a smartphone via Bluetooth. An opto-coupler speed sensor detects the rotations of an encoded disc attached to the motor shaft and sends pulses to the Arduino, which calculates RPM. The Arduino then transmits the RPM reading to an Android phone using a Bluetooth module. The user can see the live motor speed update on their phone screen through an app.

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DC Motor RPM Display On

Smartphone Using Arduino


This project presents an Arduino based speed monitoring system where
the RPM (revolutions per minute) of a DC motor is continuously displayed
on a smartphone using Bluetooth communication.

The Arduino programming employs an interrupt service routine to


determine the motor speed. The authors’ prototype of the project is
shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1: Authors’ prototype of the speed monitoring system

Circuit and working


The main components used in this project are:

Arduino Uno. Arduino Uno is an AVR ATmega328P microcontroller based


development board with six analogue input pins and fourteen digital I/O
pins. The microcontroller has 32kB ISP flash memory, 2kB RAM, and 1kB
EEPROM.
Speed sensor. In this project, an opto-coupler based speed sensor module
is used. This type of sensor generates square wave of a certain frequency
which depends on the speed of motor. Opto-coupler module FC-03 was
used during testing.

Coded disc encoder. It has some holes which help the opto-coupler type of
speed sensor to generate the square wave as mentioned above. A coded
disc encoder with twenty holes is used in this project.

Bluetooth module. The popular HC-06 Bluetooth module used for this
project sends the data from Arduino Uno to the Android based
smartphone. You can also use HC-05 Bluetooth module in place of HC-06.

Arduino Bluetooth controller. This software is based on the Android


platform and helps in communication of the smartphone with the HC-06
Bluetooth module. Arduino Bluetooth Controller by Giumig Apps was used
during testing.

Fig. 2: Internal circuit diagram of Opto-coupler type speed sensor module (FC-03)
The internal circuit diagram of the opto-coupler type speed sensor module
(FC-03) is shown in Fig. 2. The circuit diagram for the monitoring of the
motor speed on smartphone using Arduino Uno is shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 3: Circuit diagram for speed monitoring on smartphone


As shown in Fig. 3, the output of the speed sensing module is connected
to digital pin 2 (D2) of the Arduino. Using an interrupt based approach, we
can detect the pulse produced by the sensing module (in every ten
seconds), which depends on the speed of the motor. Since there are
twenty holes in the coded disc, the speed (in RPM) =((pulse×6)/20).

After determining the motor speed, the Arduino sends this data to the
smartphone (to display) via the Bluetooth module. Pin TX of the Arduino is
used for this purpose.

Software
The source code is written in Arduino programming language. The
ATmega328/ATmega328P is programmed using the Arduino IDE software

Select the correct board from Tools → Board menu in Arduino IDE and
burn the program (sketch) through the standard USB port in your
computer. Here, Serial.begin(9600) function initialises the serial port with
a baud rate of 9600. The attachInterrupt(0,counter,FALLING) function calls
the interrupt handler “counter” whenever a signal connected to interrupt
pin 0 of the Arduino makes a high-to-low, that is, falling edge transition.

After uploading the code to Arduino board (Board1), connect HC-06


Bluetooth to CON4 and sensor digital output to CON3. Mount the disc
encoder wheel on the shaft of the DC motor. Place the disc encoder
between the groove of the opto-sensor, as shown in the prototype above.

Pair the Bluetooth between the smartphone and HC-06. Open the Arduino
Bluetooth Controller app from an Android phone and select Terminal
Mode. Now switch on the motor. As the encoder disc rotates between the
optical encoder groove, the RPM of the motor can be read on the
smartphone. The RPM can also be read on the serial monitor of Arduino.

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