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Data Acquisition and Control System Using Embedded Web Server

Soumya Sunny P1, Roopa .M2
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M.Tech,ECE Department, DSCE Bangalore,VTU University,India

Asst.Proffesor,ECE Department, DSCE Bangalore,VTU University,India II. EMBEDDED WEB SERVER

AbstractThis paper realizes an embedded web server,

which enables data acquisition and status monitoring with the help of any standard web browser. User can monitor and control remote temperature and video information The platform used is Linux and ARM 9 processor. Biggest advantage of this web server is embedding a PC based web server into the ARM platform without losing any of its features. It consists of application program written in C for accessing data through the serial port and updating the web page, porting of Linux 2.6.3x Kernel with application program on ARM9 board and booting it from the RAM.
Keywords ARM, Linux, Embedded web server.

I. INTRODUCTION As the World-Wide Web (WWW) continues to evolve, it is clear that its underlying technologies are useful for much more than just browsing the web. Web access functionality is embedded in a device to enable low cost widely accessible and enhanced user interface functions for the device. A web server in the device provides access to the user interface functions for the device through a device web page. A web server can be embedded into any appliance and connected to the Internet so the appliance can be monitored and controlled from remote places through the browser in a desktop. This brings in a need for web services being deployed on various embedded processors such as Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) in real time context. Usage of Linux as the operating system brings the advantage of performance, reliability, availability and support from large developing community. High performance ARM Processor further enhances the quality of features offered by the web server. This paper introduces a solution for embedded system access to Internet, through which we can remote access, monitor, maintain conveniently. The solution is based on Web and embedded technology. Its core is S3C2440A processor on which there embedded Web server in ARM Linux platform. Its operating system is scissor-able, transplant-able Linux system.

Embedded web server refers to import Web Server at the scene the monitor and control equipment, in the support of appropriate hardware platforms and software systems, transfer traditional monitor and control equipment into an internet based, possessed with TCP/IP protocol as the underlying communication protocol and Web server technology as its core[1]. General web servers, which were developed for general purpose computers such as NT servers or Unix and Linux workstations, typically require megabytes of memory, a fast processor, a preemptive multitasking operating system, and other resources. A Web server can be embedded in a device to provide remote access to the device from a Web browser if the resource requirements of the Web server are reduced. The end result of this reduction is typically a portable set of code that can run on embedded systems with limited computing resources. The embedded system can be utilized to serve the embedded web documents, including static and dynamic information about embedded systems, to Web browsers. This type of web server is called an Embedded Web Server (EWS)[2]. The main use of EWS is to convey the current state information of embedded systems, such as a systems working statistics, configuration and operation results, to a Web browser. EWSs are also used to control or transfer user commands from a Web browser to an embedded system. The state information is extracted from an embedded system application and the control command is implemented through the embedded system application. Embedded web software to be light weighted version of web software in many instances. Embedded web servers have different requirements, such as low resource usage, high reliability, security and portability, for which general web server technologies are unsuitable. A. System Architecture The entire system uses B/S (Browser/Server) mode for its low development cost, flexibility, easy maintenance and

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upgrade. Compared with C/S (Client/Server) system, B/S system does not require development of client programs so that developers can concentrate on the development of the Server and this mode is simple to use, convenient to maintain, and easy to extend. The client PC is connected to the Internet through a browser and then gets access to the embedded Web server. Through this way, remote login and operation are realized. Fig 1. Shows the proposed concept of Data Acquisition and Control Systems (DACS) with embedded web server. It contains RTOS portable ARM processor. The real time operating system manages all the tasks such as measuring signals, conversion of signals, data base up-dation, sending HTML pages and connecting/communicating with new users etc. The RTOS manages all the required tasks in parallel and in small amounts of time. Web based management user interfaces using embedded web server have many advantages: ubiquity, user-friendly, low-development cost and high maintainability.
Client1

The main frequency of Samsung S3C2440 is 400MHz and can up to of a peek frequency of 533MHz . JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) is an international test protocol standard, software simulation, single-step debug and vivi-boot download can be carried out through the JTAG port, it's a simple and efficient means of developing and debugging embedded systems. The SDRAM capacity in the system is 64MB, working voltage is 3.3V, data bus is 32bit,and SDRAM clock frequency can reach up to 100MHz.Flash memory is divided into 64M NAND flash and 2M NOR flash The S3C2440 CPU chip supports two kinds of boot modes: booting at the NAND flash and booting at the NOR flash. The allocation of the storage space of the chip selections is different in the two boot modes. For supporting boot loader in the NAND Flash a buffer named Steppingstone is present in SDRAM. When the system get started, the first 4Kbyte content in NAND Flash is loaded to the Steppingstone and be executed. When Start up code, the contents of the NAND Flash are copied to the SDRAM. Main program will be executed from the SDRAM based on the completion of copy. B. The Software design Software development process based OS includes: the establishment of cross-compiler, the creation of root file system, the transplant of Boot loader, the porting of embedded Linux, and the development embedded Web server. ARM Linux gcc is the cross compiler used. Boot loader vivi is used here. The function of Boot loader is to initialize the hardware devices, establish memory mapping tables, thus establish appropriate hardware and software environment, provides interface to send commands to target board and prepare for the final call to the operating system kernel. Linux is used as operating system because Linux system is having a hierarchical structure and completely opens its kernel source. Linux can port to a wide range of hardware platforms, and can run in most of the architecture. Linux has a comprehensive set of editing, debugging and other development tools, graphical interface, a powerful network supporting and rich applications. In addition, the kernel can be reduced by configuring it. IV. TEMPERATURE AND ITS CONTROL The data acquisition system reading the temperature from the target board and transfer data through web server. The user having the right administration password can view the values and control and motor connected to the device. The Linux sockets are used to communicate between ARM server and webpages form clients. The communication between arm platform and client board is by RS232 protocol. A PIC microcontroller act as the CPU of the client board. We can connect n number of client board to the main system depends on the SCADA system requirement here we implemented a temperature control board which is having auto and manual modes. In auto mode the system will respond to

Web client via internet

ARM platform

Client2 Client3

Fig. 1. Embedded Web-Server architecture

III. SYSTEM DESIGN A. The Hardware design The general hardware structure of the remote data acquisition and control system based on ARM processor is shown in Fig 2. S3C2440 processor is used as core of the hardware.

Fig 2 General Structure of the Remote DACS

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the real-time temperature changes automatically and control the motor for adjust the temperature in manual mode user can control the motor speed in 0 to 9 levels. The html web interface is used to monitor and control data . This part is written using Linux sockets it made the communication fast and simple compare to standard web server packages. V. VIDEO ACQUISITION A. The Camera Driver Linux kernel configuration for USB camera driver: Run make menuconfig to configure the kernel, and select the following options to support the Logitech hd webcam C270 Multimedia devices ---> <*> Video For Linux [*] Video capture adapters ---> [*] V4L USB devices ---> <*> UVC based webcams ---> Then compile the kernel. Turn on the development board, and update the kernel to the new one we just compiled. Insert the camera into the USB port. If the terminal displays the message new USB device found, indicates that the camera driver has been successfully loaded. B. Video Streamer Used to stream JPEG files over an IP-based network from the webcam to a viewer like Firefox, a Windows Mobile device or mobile phone that has a web browser. The streamer program has two major section the first part is the camera application for capturing image and the next is the streamer part using HTTP sockets.
Fig 5. Page to monitor and control temperature

Fig 4.Page for invalid login

VI. INTERFACE DESIGN

DIAGRAMS

Fig 6.Page for video monitoring Fig 3.Login page

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VII. CONCLUSIONS

The embedded web server that has been designed can be used with industrial equipments medical instruments, and in many other places. An administrator can monitor and control the equipments with a simple but enhanced and more powerful user interface without additional hardware. Software contention and architectures can significantly affect web server performance. Poorly designed and configured software architectures might even generate high response times while the physical resources display low utilization. A remote user only requires a common internet browser to carry out experiments on real hardware.

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