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Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1979 (2021) 012058 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1979/1/012058

IoT based Wireless Notice Board Using Raspberry Pi

Nami Susan Kurian1, R K Hemanth Kumar2, M Abinaya Shree3 and S Esakkiammal4

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Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi
Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
2,3,4
UG Scholar, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi
Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

namisusan7@gmail.com, hemanthkumar.r.k.2017.ece@ritchennai.edu.in,
abinayashree.m.2017.ece@ritchennai.edu.in, esakkiammal.s.2017.ece@ritchennai.edu.in

Abstract. Information dissemination using digital notice board plays an imperative role in
this digital world. This work is primarily aimed at developing a wireless information board for
displaying and broadcasting the announcements and notices that the user sends from the
Internet using the IOT technology. By providing a sufficient power supply, the Raspberry Pi,
node MCU and LED display work properly and the display is controlled by the android
application. The application can be used by connecting it to the internet and this enables the
admin to send the information from wherever in the planet and could be visualized in a matter
of seconds. The admin uses the app by setting the correct username and password for WIFI.
For sending information, PC or mobile phone are utilised and at recipient end, raspberry Pi is
connected to the Web. The admin can send the data in the form of text or voice, which in turn
would be displayed on the distant noticeboard. The LED display is to display the text/voice
that the user has sent and the speaker is to announce the received text message. The displaying
text would be scrolling in the display. By using the text to speech software, announcement the
text that is scrolling on the LED screen become possible. Earlier the Wi-Fi notification board
had been used and thereby experiencing a limit on coverage. In this proposed method, the
Internet is used as a means of communication and no coverage problem exists.

1. Introduction
Information board plays a vital role in displaying information in all educational institutions and most
of the offices. Compared to the conventional type information display methods which are paper based
with a digital information board, we can make sure that data/information passes to everyone. The
issues challenged through the inexpressive wooden or formal form information boards can be curtailed
by the enactment of our digital information board. Due to the acclaim of the most modern
technologies, being hi-tech, like internet, we choose the internet as a source for relocating data. The
title Internet of things (IoT) is developed out of two words "internet" and " things". Internet is a wide
system of the computer networks to serve large number of people around the globe. Things can be
anything embedded with electronics like household items, vehicles. IoT allows interconnecting and
data sharing between these things. The integrated Computing architecture and the capacity to
interoperate within current internet networks are plain distinguished for any computer present in the
IoT network. In order to ensure security, login credentials would be provided where a username may
be email address or any name, and password type is alphanumerical, which competes the drawbacks of
previous noticeboards especially in the authentication mechanism. The only one person who is
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authorized to send data through vice pr text is the admin. The output monitor unit, P10 LED display is
interfaced with Raspberry Pi, which makes it possible to visualize the texts in large screens. This is not
only an electronics development but also a method to attract people to pay attention to the important
things happening inside the college, schools, or companies and it also plays an important way in
getting the information reached to the people in just fraction of seconds. Because of the merits of
Internet, the sender would deliver a reply worldwide. There are no restrictions on information sharing
in terms of range or distance. Even though there are many advancements in the field of digital notice
board using Bluetooth, Zigbee, GSM and so forth, there are many drawbacks associated with this and
it could be overcome only with the newest technology called Internet of Things.

2. Related Works
In the year 2020, few researchers along with Dr. Surendiran [1] worked with internet-based display
and has developed an IoT-based Message Scrolling LED Display. The proposed system is to design
displaying message using ATMega8 microcontroller and IoT. Internet is used for transferring the
message from the user to microcontroller. They developed a wireless information board that displays
messages sent from the user mobile application. But that is not secured, anyone can misuse that
application.

In the year 2019 [2] C. Preethibha M.E, Dhanasekar. L, John Rencinapreethi, S. Madhan Kumar,
Swetha.S, has developed a Wireless Notice Board using Raspberry Pi. In this they used a Raspberry Pi
for displaying message on led display by using an android application. In this proposed system it can
only display the message but cannot announce it. In the year 2016, Neeraj Khera, Divya Shukla, [3]
has developed a wireless advisory board based on Automaton (Android). The targeted model aims to
show a message in the display using an Arduino Uno microcontroller. The mode of transferring data in
this is through either Bluetooth or WIFI. In this proposed system the data can passed only when the
user connected to the Bluetooth or WIFI of the microcontroller. So, the data can only pass when the
user is nearby the setup.

In the year 2016, Abhishek Gupta along with few researchers [4] have developed the GSM based
wireless notice board. GSM technology, Raspberry Pi technology and LCD monitor are used in this
project. The mode of transferring information is through GSM technology. But the GSM technology is
not reliable in transferring information. In the year 2016, advanced version of notice board was
developed by A. Meenachi and other researchers [5], by using the state-of-the-art technologies like
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth Technology. They have used an Arduino microcontroller. The mode of transferring
data is through either WIFI or Bluetooth. In this the information can be passed only when the mobile
is connected to the same WIFI network or Bluetooth. In other words, the information can only pass
when the user is near the notice board.

In the paper [6] GSM technology is used for transferring the message but there arises a drawback of
delayed transmission of message. LED display is used for displaying the message. In the year 2015,
Darshankumar C, Dalwadi, Yash Teckchandani.et al has developed a Large Screen Wireless Notice
Display System. Raspberry Pi is used to display the message. The messages were conveyed used SMS.
In this method they did not provide any authentication so it can be misused by anyone.

In the year 2015, using the Bluetooth and ZigBee technology, compact and short-range wireless notice
board has been developed and it was an outbreak for the conventional notice board. The ATmega32
microcontroller is the heart of this system. The LCD displays is used to display the received message.
In the year 2015, Jaiswal Rohit et.al., has developed an advanced digital Notice Board using GSM
technology that can control the display board and also plays vital role to handover the data from
authenticated user by using the mobile technology. The heart of this scheme is the Atmel AT89S52.
The text the consumer sends to the microcontroller is sent by the prevailing technology at that time
called GSM technology. The main drawback associated with GSM is the delay in message display and
that deprives the emergency instructions to be reached to the people on time.

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3. Methodology

3.1. Proposed System

This paper proposes an IoT based wireless notice board. The operation of this system is to display and
announce the text message received in the Raspberry Pi which is sent by the user from the mobile
application and the message is passed to the display though node MCU. The android application is
created using java language. A web link is created to establish the connection between the Android
Application and LED display. The GPIO pins are used for the connection between the LED display,
Raspberry Pi and node MCU. Speakers are connected using 3.5mm audio jack port in the raspberry pi.
The proposed system consists of Raspberry Pi [7], node MCU, LED display, speaker, Cloud Server
Figure 1.

3.2. IoT Technology

It is an advanced technology that helps different objects to be interconnected and can be operated
remotely in real time with different sensors. It is one of the fast-growing sectors and it is also one of
the technologies used in industry 4.0. The thing in the IoT can be anything like an Air Conditioner
which is assigned with an IP address or anything which has been assigned with an IP address and have
the ability transfer and receive data without any help of human & intervention. IoT works assigning an
IP address to the desired device and connecting to other devices through internet.

Figure 1 shows the data transmission of IoT in which an air conditioner is connected to the internet
through a modem. An IP is assigned for the AC and the AC is connected to the cloud server by using
this IP. The cloud URL is connected to the mobile IoT application [8]. The AC can be controlled
through the application from anywhere at any time around the world because it is connected to the
internet. The operations performed by the user through the app and data which are all collected by the
air conditioner are stored in the cloud which can be viewed for future purposes.

Figure 1. IoT data transmission

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Figure 2. Block Diagram of Proposed System

3.3. Transmitter Section

The application can be using by connecting it to the internet and it must be connected to both node
MCU also. The admin can use the app by setting the correct username and password for WIFI. The
transmitter section consists of two. They are

● Android Application.
● App Cloud.

Android application: An android application is developed and used for controlling the wireless notice
board. It requires the internet to convey the messages. The application created using java language.
The IDE used is android studio. [9]
App Cloud: The android application is integrated with app cloud. It is a cloud platform which is used
to store previous messages. The user can see the list of previous messages which are transferred
through the android application by the use of app cloud.

3.4. Receiver Section

The node MCU automatically connects to the WIFI if the admin sets the correct username and
password. Then type the desired text which should be displayed on the board and touch send button.
The message is communicated to the raspberry pi using the app cloud. The message is first sent to the
board named node MCU from the raspberry pi. Node MCU is used because raspberry pi needs to rerun
the program whenever it turns off and it needs many requirements to operate like external monitor,
mouse, keyboard and power supply. In other words, laptop or computer needed to operate whenever
the raspberry pi turns off. The microcontroller is connected to LED display. The LED display is to
display the text that the user has sent and the speaker is to announce the received text message. The
displaying text would be scrolling in the display.

The receiver section consists of four. They are

● Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
● Node MCU
● P10 LED display
● Speakers

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Figure 3. Raspberry Pi model 2 B

Figure 4. Raspberry Pi 2 B Pin Diagram

Raspberry Pi: It acts as a mini computer with a small and compact embedded board established by
the Raspberry Pi Foundation in partnership with Broadcom. It is first manufactured in the United
Kingdom. The main aim of the company was to encourage the education of fundamental knowledge of
computer science in schools and in non-industrial nations.

Raspberry Pi Model 3B: It is a microprocessor. It has the following specifications – Processor 64-bit
quad-core with a speed of 1.4 GHz and a memory of 1GB RAM, Bluetooth 4.2, and USB & HDMI
ports and also supports Wi-Fi. It has 40 GPIO pins. In, this project Raspberry Pi 2B microprocessor is
used to convert the text to speech announcement through a speaker and to display it in LED display.
Since it has 2 HDMI ports, we can connect two displays at the same time. It can be programmed using
Raspbian OS.

Node MCU: Node Microcontroller Unit (Node MCU) is a microcontroller. It can used for all IoT
systems. It has WIFI module in it. It is a low-cost microcontroller. It can be programmed using
Arduino IDE. [10]

P10 LED Display: It is a 32*16, high brightness & low power consumption LED [11] of red colour
display. It has a totally of 512 LEDs. The dimension of the display is 320(W) x 160(H) x 14(D). P10
LED Display module is the simplest way to combine any size of Outdoor or Indoor LED display
board. The display can be extended by adding displays horizontally and vertically.
Speaker: It is connected through a 3.5mm audio jack to the microprocessor. Text-to-speech software
is applied to the message received in the Raspberry Pi. Which converts the text message into audio
format and audio is given to the speaker to announce.

Raspbian OS: It is a Debian based OS. It is specially developed for operating raspberry pi.
eSpeak: It is a text-to-speech software used for converting the text into audio.

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Figure 5. Raspberry Pi model 2 B

Figure 6. Raspberry Pi 2 B Pin Diagram

4. Experimental Results
The user can access the application by providing the correct username and password and the node
MCU will automatically connect to it. The user can give the input by typing or by using voice input
method. The sent message is transferred to the microprocessor through the node MCU. The
microprocessor the text is transferred to the LED display to display it. Then from the microprocessor
converts the received message into audio format [12] by using eSpeak software and the audio message
goes to the speaker.[13]

Figure 7. Overview of Prototype Figure 8. Sending message via text

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Figure 9. Overview of Prototype Figure 10. Sending message via text

Figure 11. Output of text message Figure 12. Sending message via speech
displayed on Led display and the output

5. Conclusion
In this digitized world, it is vital to implement most modern digital notice boards which outweigh the
traditional paper-based notice boards. The key concept of this proposed work is to develop a display
board wirelessly that exhibitions the information sent from the mobile application used by the user.
Thus, the project gives the easiest approach of sending and displaying information in necessary places
like schools and colleges. By using the text to speech software, announcement the text that is scrolling
on the LED screen become possible. Earlier the Wi-Fi [14] notification board had been used and
thereby experienced a limit on coverage. In this proposed method, the Internet is used as a means of
communication and no coverage area problem exists.

As a future work, solar panels can be included as a renewable source of energy, which enables the
digital notice board to work even there is a power shut down. It can be an alternate source of power. If
the power goes off it will automatically take power from the solar panel charged batteries.

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