IMPROVING SENSING SYSTEM FOR MAILBOX MONITORING
APPLICATION
HEE SHIEH LI
IMPROVING SENSING SYSTEM FOR MAILBOX MONITORING
APPLICATION
HEE SHIEH LI
This Report Is Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For The Award of Bachelor Degree of Electronic Engineering (Computer Engineering) with Honours
Faculty of Electronic and Computer Engineering Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)
UNIVERSTI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA
FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN ELEKTRONIK DAN KEJURUTERAAN KOMPUTER
BORANG PENGESAHAN STATUS LAPORAN
PROJEK SARJANA MUDA II
Tajuk Projek :
Sesi Pengajian :
Saya ………..
(HURUF BESAR)
mengaku membenarkan Laporan Projek Sarjana Muda ini disimpan di Perpustakaan dengan
syarat-syarat kegunaan seperti berikut:
1. Laporan adalah hakmilik Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka.
2. Perpustakaan dibenarkan membuat salinan untuk tujuan pengajian sahaja.
3. Perpustakaan dibenarkan membuat salinan laporan ini sebagai bahan pertukaran antara institusi
pengajian tinggi.
4. Sila tandakan ( √ ) :
SULIT*
(Mengandungi maklumat yang berdarjah keselamatan atau
kepentingan Malaysia seperti yang termaktub di dalam AKTA
RAHSIA RASMI 1972)
TERHAD**
(Mengandungi maklumat terhad yang telah ditentukan oleh
organisasi/badan di mana penyelidikan dijalankan)
TIDAK TERHAD
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__________________________ ___________________________________
Alamat Tetap: 77, TAMAN BUKIT INDAH, (COP DAN TANDATANGAN PENYELIA)
78300 MASJID TANAH,
MELAKA
Tarikh: ……….. Tarikh: ………..
IMPROVING SENSING SYSTEM FOR MAILBOX MONITORING APPLICATION
SESI 2012/2013
“I hereby declare that this report is the result of my own work except for quotes as cited in the references.”
Signature : ………
Author : HEE SHIEH LI
Date : ………
“I hereby declare that I have read this report and in my opinion this report is sufficient in terms of the scope and quality for the award of Bachelor
Degree of Electronic Engineering (Computer Engineering)
with Honours.”
Signature : ………
Supervisor Name : ENGR. MOHD MUZAFAR BIN ISMAIL
Date : ………
This project and research work is dedicated to my beloved parents for their enthusiastic caring throughout my life, my loving sister and
brother also my friends for their encouragement and love. Also, not to forget, to lecturers that shares their knowledge towards me.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Here I would like to press out my deepest acknowledgement to a few people that helped during my Final Year Project. First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks and indebted to Engr. Mohd Muzafar Bin Ismail as my supervisor, thank you very much for accept me as one of your PSM student and the collaborative leadership that you show will always I remembered. I also would like to thank to my PSM1 panel Mr. Hazli Rafis Bin Abdul Rahim and Mrs. Siti Rosmaniza Bt. Ab. Rashid who gave me idea on my project.
I would like to express my special thanks and a very down to earth and full with sense of humor-great experience to the Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Computer Engineering (FKEKK) on putting into practice the Final Year Project as a compulsory chore for the final year students prior to complete their course. Indirectly, this pertain prepare the students technically to facilitate the world of electronics all over their working verve. Not forgetting Universiti Teknikal Malaysia
Melaka for their contribution on the facilities and also equipments as well as creating a platform to the final year student to achieve and carry out their projects in durable manner.
I also wish to extend heartfelt thanks to my friends and my entire classmate for your help and support during these three years in Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. The memory we spent together will not I forget. Finally, I wish to thank to my lovely parents and my siblings, I love you so much and also to my lecturers and friends for their encouragement, strength and support.
Thank You.
ABSTRAK
Seperti yang dinyatakan dalam tajuk, iaitu "Aplikasi Pengawalan Untuk Meningkatkan Sistem Mengesan Bagi Peti Surat", tesis ini mengandungi maklumat-maklumat berkenaan tentang fungsi sistem untuk mengawal peti surat dengan mengenal pasti identiti penghantar dan memaklumkan kepada pemilik melalui e-mel dan SMS (Khidmat Pesanan Ringkas) apabila menerima dokumen. Apabila pengguna menerima dokumen-dokumen baru di dalam peti surat mereka, kebanyakan pengguna tidak mendapat diberitahu dan mereka perlu sentiasa memeriksa peti surat mereka di lokasi peti surat tersebut. Kebanyakan bangunan multi-tingkat menghadkan pengguna memeriksa atau mengumpul surat-surat mereka disebabkan lokasi peti surat dipusatkan. Dengan menggunakan sistem peti surat ini, ia memudahkan dan mengurangkan kesusahan pengguna apabila peti surat menerima dokumen dengan menggunakan PLC(Programmable Logic Control). Perkhidmatan SMS dan e-mel yang digunakan untuk memaklumkan
pengguna apabila dokumen diterima. Sistem peti surat boleh mengurangkan kerja-kerja manusia dan menjimatkan masa pemilik dengan memberitahu pemilik apabila dokumen diterima. Apabila peti surat sedang menerima dokumen, pemilik akan dapat memberitahu oleh mesej dihantar oleh sistem. Oleh itu, pemilik hanya perlu menyemak status peti surat melalui e-mel atau SMS. Bagi Universiti atau Kolej, pensyarah boleh menetapkan masa tarikh akhir untuk tugasan pada sistem peti surat ini, pelajar boleh menjadi lebih berdisiplin apabila menghantar tugasan pada masa yang tepat. Sistem Mengesan melaksanakan dan menyambung antara perkakasan peti surat dan perisian seperti PLC dan Visual Basic. Dalam projek ini, kami membina prototaip sistem peti surat yang meningkatkan pengesanan dan melaksanakan dan membina litar pengesan dengan pendawaian sistem.
ABSTRACT
As stated in the title which is “Improving Sensing System For Mailbox
Monitoring Application”, this thesis provides some information about how a system function to control the mailbox/pigeon hole by identify the sender through Email and SMS(Short Messaging Service) to the mailbox owner. Upon the user receiving new documents in their mailbox, most of the user did not get notified and they need to be always checking their mailbox condition by walking to mailbox location. Most of the multilevel building limits the users on limited visits to check or collect their letters due to the centralize mailbox location. By using this mailbox system, it is able to allow people to facilitate and reduce the inconvenience when the mailbox/pigeon hole receiving the document by using PLC (Programmable Logic Control). SMS and Email service is used for the document received informing. Mailbox System can reduce the human work and it can be saving the time of the owner. Owner can always be informing the condition of the document received. When the mailbox is receiving a document, the owner will be get inform by the message was sending out
by the system. Therefore, the mailbox owner only needs to check the mailbox status through the Email or SMS. For the University or College, lecturer can set the due date time for the assignment into this mailbox system, the student can be more disciplined during hand in the assignment on time. Sensing system is to implement and interconnect between the mailbox hardware and software such as PLC and Visual Basic software. With this project, it is to build up the improving sensing mailbox system by set up the mailbox prototype structure. Implement and construct the sensor circuits with wiring the system.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER TITLE PAGE
PROJECT TITLE
REPORT VERIFICATION STATUS FORM
DECLARATION SUPERVISOR DECLARATION DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ABSTRAK ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF TERMS
LIST OF APPENDIXES
i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix xv xvi xviii xix
I INTRODUCTION
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 INTRODUCTION OBJECTIVES PROBLEM STATEMENT SCOPE OF PROJECT MOTIVATION
CONTRIBUTION
ORGANIZATION OF THESIS
II LITERTURE REVIEW
2.1 INTRODUCTION 9
10 10 11 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 21 21 21 2.2 ELECTRONIC MAILBOX WITH
ELECTRONICALLY PROGRAMMED ACCESS DOOR
2.2.1 ELECTRONIC MAILBOX FEATURES
2.2.2 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE OF ELECTRONIC MAILBOX
2.2.3 ELECTRONIC MAILBOX FUNCTIONALITY
2.3 METRA ELECTRONIC LOCK SYSTEM 2.3.1 METRA ELECTRONIC LOCK
SYSTEM FEATURES
2.3.2 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE OF ELECTRONIC LOCK SYSTEM 2.3.3 METRA ELECTRONIC LOCK
SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY 2.4 REAL TIME MAIL ALERT SYSTEM VIA
SMS OR EMAIL
2.4.1 MAIL ALERT SYSTEM FEATURES
2.4.2 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE OF REAL TIME MAIL ALERT SYSTEM 2.4.3 MAIL ALERT SYSTEM
FUNCTIONALITY
2.5 IMPROVING SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MAILBOX MONITORING APPLICATION 2.5.1 IMPROVING MAILBOX SYSTEM
FEATURES
2.5.2 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE OF IMPROVING SENSING SYSTEM
2.5.3 IMPROVING MAILBOX SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY
23
25 2.6 SUMMARY
III PROJECT METHODOLOGY
3.1 INTRODUCTION 26
3.2 PROJECT PROCESS FLOW 26
3.3 MECHANISM PART OF MAILBOX SYSTEM
29
3.4 SIGNAL PRODUCER OF MAILBOX SYSTEM
32
3.4.1 THRU-BEAM SENSOR 32
3.4.2 DIFFUSE REFLECTIVE SENSOR 33 3.4.3 RETRO REFLECTIVE SENSOR 34
3.4.4 SENSOR POSITION 35
3.4.5 SENSOR POSITION FUNCTIONING 36 3.4.6 RESULTS OF SENSOR SENSE 36 3.5 ZELIO LOGIC SMART RELAY(ZLSR) 38
3.5.1 ZELIO SOFT 39
3.6 DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER SYSTEM 39
3.6.1 VISUAL BASIC 40
3.7 EVALUATION 42
3.8 SUMMARY 42
IV SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND
COMMERCIALIZATION
4.1 INTRODUCTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
43
4.1.1 IMPORTANCE OF THE PROJECT 44 xii
DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
4.2 INTRODUCTION OF COMMERCIALIZATION
45
45
46 4.2.1 IMPACT FOR
COMMERCIALIZATION OF MAILBOX SYSTEM
4.2.2 RESEARCH ADVANCEMENT OF MAILBOX SYSTEM
4.3 SUMMARY 47
V RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
5.1 INTRODUCTION 48
5.2 MAILBOX SYSTEM FLOW CHART 48
5.3 STANDARD OPERATION PROCEDURE (S.O.P) 52 52 56 58 59 59 60 61 62 63 5.3.1 FOR OWNER USER
5.3.2 FOR STUDENT USER 5.3.3 FOR PUBLIC USER
5.4 DISCUSSION
5.4.1 MAILBOX MECHANISM PART 5.4.2 ELECTRONIC PART
5.4.3 HARDWARE CHANGING 5.4.4 INTERNET CONNECTION
VI CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
64
65
66
6.1 CONCLUSION
6.2 RECOMMENDATION
REFERENCES
APPENDIX A 69
APPENDIX B 70
APPENDIX C 71
APPENDIX D 72
LIST OF TABLES
NO TITLE PAGE
3.1 Mailbox Sensing Condition 38
5.1 Standard Procedure of Owner User 52
5.2 Standard Procedure of Student 57
5.3 Standard Procedure of Public User 58
LIST OF FIGURES
NO TITLE PAGE
1.1 Mailbox System Process Flow 2
2.1 The Front View of the Electronic Mailbox 10 2.2 The Side View of the Electronic Mailbox 10 2.3 The Locking System can apply on the Locker 13
2.4 The Process Flow of Locking System 14
2.5 Functionality of Database Checklist 15
2.6 Centralize Mailbox System 17
2.7 Block Diagram of the Mail Alert System 18
2.8 Zelio Smart Relay 22
3.1 Sensor Circuit 27
3.2 Process Mapping of Mailbox System Developing 28 3.3 Process of Develop the Drawing of the Mailbox 30
3.4 Mailbox’s Technical Drawing 31
3.5 Sensor Mounting’s Drawing 31
3.6 Thru-Beam Sensor 32
3.7 Diffuse Reflective Sensor 34
3.8 Retro Reflective Sensor 35
3.9 Mailbox Sensor Position 36
3.10 Development of Computer System 40
3.11 Benchmark of Visual Basic 41
3.12 Sample Program of Visual Basic 41
5.1 Mailbox System Process Flow Chart for Student User and Public User
49
5.2 Mailbox System Process Flow Chart Continued with
Owner User
50
5.3 Original Mechanism Design 59
5.4 Latest Mechanism Design 60
5.5 PLC for the Original Design 60
5.6 Zelio Smart Relay with the Ethernet Modbus Controller 61
5.7 Wireless Modem in Mailbox System 61
5.8 Original Touch Screen 62
5.9 New Interface for Interact with the Project 62 5.10 Priority Setting for the Connection 63
LIST OF TERMS
SMS Short Messaging Service PLC Programmable Logic Control ZLSR Zelio Logic Smart Relay
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications FBD Function Block Diagram Language
IDE Integrated Development Environment
BASIC Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code RAD Rapid Application Development
GUI Graphical User Interface VBA Visual Basic Application
LIST OF APPENDIXES
NO TITLE PAGE
A Mailbox Prototype Technical Drawing 69
B 1st Angle View (Main Structure) 70
C Mailbox System Wiring Diagram 71
D Mailbox System GUI Interface Visual Basic Programming Language (Source Code)
72
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
Mailbox is a receptacle for receiving incoming mail for the owner at a private residence, schools, or business. In the late 18th century, the first encouraged people to install letterboxes to facilitate the delivery of mail were British Post Office [1]. The original mailboxes design had been installed in the doors and walls of house for postman or people to drop off incoming mail [1]. For the multilevel building, pigeon-hole mailboxes were used in some residential area, office, or some academic. It is an internal mail system commonly used for communication in workplaces,
organizations, and educational institutes in every country. Documents and messages
are place in a person’s pigeon-hole for them to collect.
As the Chinese proverb, “Time is gold; an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time [2].” Now, modern people think time is very precious, some people think that one day twenty four hours is not enough. Before this, people always needed go to their centralize mailbox center to check their mailbox condition whether the mails received or not. By doing this, people feel that very inconvenient and wasted their time.
one of the ways can be used to inform the mailbox owner by sending the notification message while the documents received. This Mailbox System could be used for
[image:21.595.175.489.173.366.2]home environment, office area, and multilevel building, such as apartment, university, and even schools.
Figure 1.1: Mailbox System Process Flow.
Mailbox System (Pigeon Hole System) is a project with a system function to control the mailbox/pigeon hole by identify to the owner. It will register the sender identity; time of document received, and also can inform the mailbox owner through E-mail or SMS (Short Messaging Service) while the document had received. Based on Figure 1.1, before sender need to send the document to owner, they need to register with the controller server, if not they are unable to insert the document into the mailbox. After that, they need to select which mailbox they want to accessed and select their identity. Lastly, after register everything they can insert the documents into the mailbox and an Email and SMS will send to owner account for informing document received.
the receiving door for the student late hand in assignment or document. For the university user, mailbox owner/lecturer needed to create the assignment name to let
students hand in the assignment.
This system can be used in two types of users. First type user is student and the second type is public such as others lecturer or postman. When the students want to hand in the assignment, they need to choose the lecturer mailbox and select types of user which is Student. After that, students need to choose the assignment name that had created by lecturer. They need to key-in the identity number to get the permission to hand it the document that under the time frame was set by the mailbox owner/lecturer.
The student hand in assignment/document record will be send by Email according to the time setting of the owner/lecturer and a text message will be send to the owner thru SMS to the mobile number that was set by owner and with the message by the owner. The mailbox owner can setting the Email account and mobile phone number in the Owner Setting page. For the public users, the informing of the receiving document from public user will send directly by email and SMS once received the document.
While the mailbox owner want to collect their documents had received, they need to insert their mailbox password to open the mailbox main door. By using
sensing system, the mailbox owner will just need to check the email to ensure that who is the one that hand it the document in time, on time, even over time.
Mailbox System is reducing the human work and it can be saving the time of the owner. Owner can always be informing that the condition of the document received. When the mailbox is receiving a document, the owner will be get inform by the message was sending out by the system. With this system, the owners no need to walk to the mailbox to check the condition of the mailbox. By using this mailbox system, the student can be more disciplined and hand in homework on time.
over the server. For the owner part, the owner will need to key-in the password to open the Mailbox main door to collect their received documents. Secondly is
mechanism part. The receiving door will open and close while receive the documents from the sender. Thirdly is the sensing part. The document will be detected by the
sensor to show that document is received. After that computing part will sending a
message to the owner’s Email account and SMS while receive any document or mailbox was full.
1.2 Objectives
Improving sensor system for mailbox monitoring application is a system that installs or add-in system to the conventional mailbox. It is system that able to allow people to facilitate and reduce inconvenience when receiving the document (mail/assignment) by using Programmable Logic Control (PLC).
With this project, it is able to build up the improving sensing mailbox system by set up the mailbox prototype structure. Implement and construct the sensor circuits with wiring the system.
Sensor system is also able to implement, test, and interconnect between the hardware and software, such as using PLC with the Visual Basic.
1.3 Problem Statement
Mailbox is a device that very command in our life. At home, office, apartment and even in University. In University, the command mailbox that was using is the rack type (pigeon hole). Pigeon hole is having a big amount of the mailbox [3]. It is commonly use for communication in organizations, workplaces and educational institutes to collecting the documents from postman, lecturer, courier and student.
The documents are placed in a person’s pigeon hole for them to collect.
The main problem of the pigeon hole is between the owners with student. For the first problem, student will not able to sending the assignment or document at a
designated time that require from lecturer. Therefore, this will lead to increasingly lazy and undisciplined students. Secondly, the owner need to always walk to the
mailbox checking for the mailbox status confirmation. This will bring a lot of inconvenience and will waste a lot of precious time.
By technically, for the recently mailbox system, a few of problem was define. For the first technical problems, small document was not able to be sense. The second problems are the space of the pigeon hole will have a limit after installing the sensing device.
The system was create is to reducing the human work and it can be saving the time of the owner by sending a message to the owner when document was received. The message was sending will be including the time of receiving, status (full of document) of the mailbox and the sender identity. The mailbox will reject the document that was over the time frame in which the time was designated by the owner.
By technically, a special sensor which is thru beam type sensor will be use to detect the document that was received, not even the big size of document or a small size of document. A special type of the design of the mailbox will be use to
overcome the limited space of the mailbox.
1.4 Scope of Project
Improving Sensing System for Mailbox System Monitoring Application is covering the process of the sender sensing controller (sensor using), the sensor will be a monitoring device of the system, the type of sensor will be research and use by more accuracy. The sensor was using is able sense the document what never the small of size or the big of size.
