Final Year Project Report
Final Year Project Report
A Project Report on
“Design and Implementation of Wireless Sensor Network to Establish Communication
Between Sensors and Actuators in Vehicle”
CERTIFICATE
Certified that the Projectwork entitled “Design and Implementation of Wireless Sensor
Network to Establish Communication Between Sensors and Actuators in Vehicle”, is
carried out by Santosh Hampannavar(2KL17EC081), Rahul Patil(2KL17EC066), P. Vinayak
(2KL17EC053), Shivani Dalavi (2KL17EC086) are bonafied students of Department of
Electronics and Communication Engineering, K. L. E. Dr. M. S. Sheshgiri College of
Engineering and Technology, Belagavi, in partial fulfillment for the award of Bachelor of
Engineering in Electronics and Communication of the Visvesvaraya Technological
University, Belagavi, during the year 2020-21. It is certified that all correction/suggestions
indicated for internal assessment have been incorporated in the report and has been approved as
it satisfies the academic requirements in respect to project work prescribed for the said degree.
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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that the entire work embodied in this report entitled “Design and
Implementation of Wireless Sensor Network to Establish Communication Between
Sensors and Actuators in Vehicle” has been carried out by us at department of Electronics
and Communication Engineering, K. L. E. Dr. M. S. Sheshgiri College of Engineering and
Technology Belagavi, under the supervision of Prof. Vijay Rayar. The report has been
submitted in part or full for the award of any degree of this or any other university.
To the best of our knowledge the above statements made by the students Santosh
Hampannavar(2KL17EC081), Rahul Patil (2KL17EC066), P. Vinayak (2KL17EC053),
Shivani Dalavi (2KL17EC086) can be accepted for partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING.
Guide HOD
Acknowledgement
The project opportunity we had was a great chance for learning and professional development.
We are grateful for having a chance to meet so many wonderful people and professional who
led us through this project phase.
We express our deepest thanks to our internal guide Prof. Vijay Rayar Assistant professor,
Department of ECE for their careful and precious guidance which were extremely valuable for
our study both theoretically and practically.
We express our gratitude to thank Dr. Rajashri Khanai, Head of the ECE department for her
cordial support, valuable information and guidance, which helped us in completing this project
in various stages.
We would love to express our gratitude and thanks towards our beloved principal Dr. Basavaraj
Katageri. It is an honor to thank him for providing direction in all our endeavors.
We are grateful to our management for cooperative and inspiration and also special thanks to
teaching and non-teaching staffs for their kind support.
VISION
MISSION
12. Life-long Learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent
and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.
ECU
Commu
nication
Project
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TITLE
LIST OF FIGURE
ABSTRACT
CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Objective of the project
1.3 Literature review
CHAPTER-2 MATERIALS AND METHOD
2.1 Features of the NRF24L01
2.2 The Controller
2.3 The Sensor
2.4 Block diagram of WSN
CHAPTER-3 RESULT
3.1 The Working Protype
CHAPTER-4 CONCLUSION
4.1 Conclusion
5.2 Reference
LIST OF FIGURES
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2.4.1 IR Sensor
3.1.2 Result
ABSTRACT
Nowadays, there are more than 150 sensors inside a car which are connected via wires to the Electronic
Control Units (ECUs). The increase in the number of sensors put into a car adds significant weight to the car
and makes the wiring system more complex. Intra-car Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is therefore a promising
solution for a automobile industry in the near future as it eliminates the amount of wiring harness and simplifies
the wiring structure. The reduction in the weight of a car leads in a more efficient engine performance, better
fuel economy, and reliability.
In this paper, we propose a new WSN node using nRF24L01. This operates in license free 2.4 GHz ISM
band. This methods and ultra-low power hardware reduces the WSN power consumption.
CHAPTER -1 INTRODUCTION
1.1. INTRODUCTION
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Wireless sensor network (WSN) has been developing rapidly during the latest decade. Computer
science, automation technologies, radio frequency (RF) technology, electronics and other related techniques
have contributed extensively to the development of WSN technology Wireless sensor networks are wireless
networks composed of sensors, which monitor surrounding condition as one system. These sensors are
implemented by using microcontroller, transceiver, etc. Sensor nodes are installed in the surrounding
environment to monitor specific environmental parameters and pass the collected data to the base station. Thus,
WSN enables access to harsh places or environments where are impossible to set up the cables. Consequently, it
is quite suitable to apply a wireless sensor system to obtain reliable data from the wireless network for the
purpose of monitoring and control.
Sensor nodes abilities limit depend on factors like power, processing power, storage and
communication capability. Information collected by nodes are sent to the base station by unsecure means. The
introduction of wireless sensors in vehicles is expected to bring numerous benefits including simplification of
wiring harnesses, reduced maintenance costs, reduction of component variants and related quality and cost
improvements. The impact of such a network of in-vehicle wireless sensors on the vehicle electrical system
needs to be carefully analysed and accounted for in order to ensure sustainable operation of vehicle wireless
sensors.
1.2. OBJECTIVES:
To understand the operation of wireless sensor network and identify appropriate wireless sensor
node.
“Comparative Performance Analysis between nRF24L01+ and XBEE ZB Module Based Wireless Ad-
hoc Networks”: An alternative to the XBee radio modules is nRF24L01+ radio modules which are cheap
and powerful. In this paper, performances of nRF24L01+ modules have been analyzed and compared
with that of XBee ZB modules in wireless ad-hoc networks.
nRF24L01 is a single chip radio transceiver for the world-wide 2.4 - 2.5 GHz ISM band. The transceiver
consists of a fully integrated frequency synthesizer, a power amplifier, a crystal oscillator, a demodulator,
modulator and Enhanced ShockBurst™ protocol engine. Output power, frequency channels, and protocol setup
are easily programmable through a SPI interface. Current consumption is very low, only 9.0mA at an output
power of -6dBm and 12.3mA in RX mode. Built-in Power Down and Standby modes makes power saving
easily realizable.
Radio Frequency
The nRF24L01+ transceiver module is designed to operate in 2.4 GHz worldwide ISM frequency band
and uses GFSK modulation for data transmission. The data transfer rate can be one of 250kbps, 1Mbps and
2Mbps.
Power consumption
The operating voltage of the module is from 1.9 to 3.6V, but the good news is that the logic pins are 5-
volt tolerant, so we can easily connect it to an Arduino or any 5V logic microcontroller without using any logic
level converter.
The module supports programmable output power viz. 0 dBm, -6 dBm, -12 dBm or -18 dBm and
consumes unbelievably around 12 mA during transmission at 0 dBm, which is even lower than a single LED.
And best of all, it consumes 26 µA in standby mode and 900 nA at power down mode. That’s why they’re the
go-to wireless device for low-power applications.
SPI Interface
The nRF24L01+ transceiver module communicates over a 4-pin Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) with a
maximum data rate of 10Mbps. All the parameters such as frequency channel (125 selectable channels), output
power (0 dBm, -6 dBm, -12 dBm or -18 dBm), and data rate (250kbps, 1Mbps, or 2Mbps) can be configured
through SPI interface.
The SPI bus uses a concept of a Master and Slave, in most common applications our Arduino is the
Master and the nRF24L01+ transceiver module is the Slave. Unlike the I2C bus the number of slaves on the SPI
bus is limited, on the Arduino Uno you can use a maximum of two SPI slaves i.e. two nRF24L01+ transceiver
modules.
nRF24L01 working
The nRF24L01+ transceiver module transmits and receives data on a certain frequency called Channel.
Also in order for two or more transceiver modules to communicate with each other, they need to be on the same
channel. This channel could be any frequency in the 2.4 GHz ISM band or to be more precise, it could be
between 2.400 to 2.525 GHz (2400 to 2525 MHz).
Each channel occupies a bandwidth of less than 1MHz. This gives us 125 possible channels with 1MHz
spacing. So, the module can use 125 different channels which give a possibility to have a network of 125
independently working modems in one place.
RF channel frequency of your selected channel is set according to the following formula:
The nRF24L01+ provides a feature called Multi receiver. It’s an abbreviation for Multiple Transmitters
Single Receiver. In which each RF channel is logically divided into 6 parallel data channels called Data Pipes.
In other words, a data pipe is a logical channel in the physical RF Channel. Each data pipe has its own physical
address (Data Pipe Address) and can be configured. This can be illustrated as shown below.
The nRF24L01+ transceiver module uses a packet structure known as Enhanced ShockBurst. This
simple packet structure is broken down into 5 different fields, which are illustrated below.
The original ShockBurst structure consisted only of Preamble, Address, Payload and the Cyclic
Redundancy Check (CRC) fields. Enhanced ShockBurst brought about greater functionality for more enhanced
communications using a newly introduced Packet Control Field (PCF).
This new structure is great for a number of reasons. Firstly, it allows for variable length payloads with a
payload length specifier, meaning payloads can vary from 1 to 32 bytes.
Specification:
Fig.2.3.1 IR Sensor
IR sensor is an electronic device, that emits the light in order to sense some object of the surroundings. An
IR sensor can measure the heat of an object as well as detects the motion. Usually, in the infrared spectrum,
all the objects radiate some form of thermal radiation.
Pin Description
The figure above shows the block diagram of a WSN. It consists of Transmitter node
and receiver node. The wireless node is based on Nordic’s nRF24L01 chip which is RF
trans-receiver cum microcontroller. Signals received from sensors are given to nRF24L01.
It processes received signal and send physical value of the received signal to the related
ECU via RF communication. Signal processing is done at the node itself. This reduces
processing load from ECU. Therefore ECU can utilize available resources for application
processing. ECU sends signals to actuator via nRF24L01.
CHAPTER -3 RESULT
CHAPTER-4 CONCLUSION
4.1. CONCLUSION
It is possible to use wireless network instead of wired in vehicles with much secure and reliable way.
Wireless sensor network will allow addition of sensor as plug and play devices without installation
of additional wiring network. It needs minimal maintenance.
The future developments in sensor nodes must produce very powerful and cost-effective devices, so that
they may be used in applications like underwater acoustic sensor systems, sensing based cyber-physical
systems, time-critical applications, cognitive sensing and spectrum management, and security and
privacy management. In this section we will look into all possibilities of further development in WSN
applications.
As application of low-power wireless protocols is increasing, we can envision a future in which wireless
devices, such as wireless keyboards, power-point presenters, cell phone headsets, and health monitoring
sensors will be ubiquitous. But the pervasiveness of these devices leads to increased interference and
congestion within as well as between networks, because of overlapping physical frequencies.
The inherent nature of WSNs makes them deployable in a variety of circumstances. They have the
potential to be everywhere, on roads, in our homes and offices, forests, battlefields, disaster struck areas,
and even underwater in oceans. This paper surveys the application areas where WSNs have been
deployed such as military sensing, traffic surveillance, target tracking, environment monitoring, and
healthcare monitoring
WSNs may be deployed in the near future as underwater acoustic sensor systems, sensing based cyber-
physical systems, time-critical applications, cognitive sensing and spectrum management, and security
and privacy management. These application areas are being researched extensively by various people
across the industry
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