Car Wash
Car Wash
Car Wash
Keywords: self-service car washing machine; ARM; 3G network; KINGVIEW6.55, remote monitor
Abstract. With the cars in our country's rapid increase, the limited quantity of traditional car
washing shop has been unable to satisfy people’s needs. Responding to this problem the author
designed a set of self-service car washing machine control system based on ARM, and a set of
remote monitoring system based on 3G mobile network. The terminal control system adopted high
speed, low power microcontroller LPC4350 as the control core; adopted RFID read-write module to
realize IC card consumption; adopted EM770W 3G module for the washing machine terminal could
connect to 3G mobile network. Through MODBUS protocol, the remote monitoring system based
on KINGVIEW6.55 could communicate with the terminal system, and realized the real-time
monitoring and recording the washingmachines’ working parameters regularly. The system realizes
the unattended self-service washing, and greatly reduces the maintenance workload, improve work
efficiency.
Introduction
With the rapid development of China's economy and society, people have strong rigid demand of
car, and the car ownership continues to show a rapid growth trend. By the end of 2014, the national
number of cars rose to 154 million. The limited number of traditional car washing shop has been
unable to meet the needs of the majority of owners of car washing. In this paper, we design a self
washing machine terminal control system based on LPC4350 micro controller ARM, which is paid
by credit card. This car wash way is saving energy, environmental protection, saving land resources,
and has the advantages of fast, save time, effort. The computer can connect with the Internet.
Through the remote monitoring system based on 3G Network, this system realizes the real-time
monitoring and timing of the operation status and fault information of the terminal of the self
washing machine. The system without the need for a person on duty, the owner of the vehicle is
clean, and the cost is low, the reliability is high, can greatly improve the management of labor
intensity and working efficiency.
Microcontroller
Flowermeter 2
LPC4350 Relay output
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Fig.2 Dual power supply circuit
Dual power supply circuit function is to control the system (or load) of the power supply
automatically from the battery to the AC adapter, and control a LTC4059A battery charger. When
the AC adapter is not connected, the LTC4413 will load the load connected to the Li ion battery, the
STAT pin is high, and the battery charger failure. If connected to the AC adapter, the load voltage
will rise with the connection between the INB and the OUTB. When the load voltage exceeds the
battery voltage, the battery will be immediately connected to the load, and the STAT pin voltage
drops, so as to connect the LTC4059A battery charger and start a charging cycle. When the AC
adapter is removed, the load voltage will drop sharply, when the battery voltage falls below the
battery will resume to the load supply, the STAT pin voltage drops, which leads to the battery
charger failure.
Double power supply circuit switching time is less than 0.1ms. The circuit also has a limited
flow and thermal protection, and the protection of the device from the voltage spike and the slow
off function, and when the AC power supply to the load, can replace the battery, and will not
interfere with power output. Therefore, the circuit can realize the control system and improve the
reliability of the control system [2].
Flow sensor. Water and foam flow sensor using SEN-HZW3WA pulse signal flow sensor. The
sensor loads resistance into the positive pole of Hall element, and through the 5V DC voltage to
make the current direction and magnetic field direction orthogonal. When the water through the
turbine switch shell to drive the magnetic rotor rotation, the rotor produces different magnetic poles
of the rotating magnetic field, and cuts the magnetic induction line, then produces high and low
pulse level. The output pulse signal frequency of Hall element is proportional to the speed of the
magnetic rotor, and the rotor speed is proportional to the water flow rate [3]. The formula for pulse
signal and water instantaneous flow is: F=8.1Q-3.
In the formula, F is the pulse signal frequency, Q is the water flow.
The conversion can be obtained that when the sensor accumulated a total of 477 pulses,
equivalent to the flow through 1L water. In this system, the micro controller LPC4350 calculates the
cumulative flow rate of the car wash by capturing the number of pulses emitted by the two sensors.
3G network connection
Control system uses EM770W module to access the 3G network of the self-service car washing
machine. EM770W is the production of HUAWEI 3G wireless communication module, which can
support WCDMA, and widely used in the terminal equipment and industrial fields; in high speed
packet access technology (HSPA), its uplink download rate is 7.2Mbit/s, the downlink download
rate is 5.76Mbit/s. It has the advantages of low power consumption, good compatibility, high
transmission speed, strong stability and other characteristics [4]. EM770W has two UART
interfaces, the UART1 can support flow control function, PPP dialing, sending AT commands. In
the control system, the UART1 interface of the micro controller LPC4350 is connected with the
UART1 to realize the data transmission with the remote monitoring computer.
Using the 3G network module, the self-service car washing machine terminal and the remote
monitoring computer can carry out the transparent data communication. That is to say, there is no
communication protocol between the car washing machine terminal MCU and 3G network module,
the 3G network module only sends the data that MCU sends over to go out, and the software can
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receive the data packets from the 3G module [5]. Such as car wash machine terminal MCU sends a
byte data to 0xFF, then the software will receive a byte data on the remote computer 0xFF. The
communication principle of the data from the remote computer to the washing machine is the same.
Conclusion
The design of self - car washing control system based on ARM reflects three major advantages.
First, self control water consumption, saving cost. According to statistics, the washing water
consumption is about 20L, only 1/3 of the car washing shop, by rough estimate, which can save
about 1 billion cubic meters water .Second, it has the functions of water washing and foam cleaning.
It is easy to switch, low cost, and the average price of a car wash at around 5 yuan. Third, the
system can be 24h on work, without the need for a person on duty.
Through the remote computer monitoring system based on 3G network, administrator can access
the Internet to the computer, on this computer administrator can see the work state of the car
washing machines. The designed system has been put into operation, its performance is stable, and
the data transmission is good, the speed is fast, the scope of monitoring is not limited. So it greatly
reduces the workload of the car washing machine, and improves the working efficiency.
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