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International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering

Website: www.ijetae.com (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal, Volume 4, Issue 3, March 2014)

Android Based Wireless Electronics Workbench System


Rajmane Sainath Bhagwanrao1, Bahir Rahul Shivaji2, Jeughale Shivam Sadashiv3, Prof.Aher Vishal A4
1,2,3

Student Of B.E E&TC, Pravara Rural Engg College, Loni, Maharashtra,India


Assistant Professor Of E&TC Dept, Pravara Rural Engg College, Loni, Maharashtra,India
Data logger is equipped with microprocessor, memory,
and sensor for data collection. Mobility is one of the
advantages of data logger since the size of the
microprocessor, memory, and sensor is small. The design
of the data logger can be made based on the needs of
specific environment or application type. Many of the
general purpose data loggers are machines with fixed
parameters. However, there are some with reprogrammable capability. One of the most important
advantages of using data logger is the capability to collect
data automatically over a long period. Measurement results
can be collected without human supervision just by
deployment and activating the data logger on the intended
location. This does not only reduce the human resources in
data recording, but also provide an accurate picture of the
environmental conditions during the monitoring period.

Abstract Now a day, Electronics workbench system are


more usefull in business and home applications compare with
several years ago. In this system data loggers can be
customized according to the application requirement based on
the available resources in the market. Thus, this creates a cost
effective solution for the end user. This paper presents the
design and implementation of a low cost, portable, lightweight; low power, wireless electronic workbench system
which works as android Oscilloscope ,but up to few MHz
which consisting of a hardware device and a software
application. The device is equipped with a Bluetooth module
to provide connectivity to a device with Bluetooth, running the
Android operating system (OS), in order to display the
waveforms. The hardware device includes circuitry to capture
the input voltage signals and an embedded Bluetooth module
for transmitting the captured signal information to an
Android device for displaying the waveform. The application
provides three modes of operation, namely logger mode,
digital mode and function generator mode. The user can select
a mode from the application, which in turn sends a message to
the microcontroller which then changes the sampling
frequency accordingly.

II. METHODOLOGY
2.1. System Overview
The design and implementation stage of the project,
involved the Bluetooth embedded hardware device
implementation and the software application development
for Android. The Bluetooth embedded device is a
microcontroller based system.In this Project we can use32
bit ARM7 Microcontroller. Figure 1 gives a block diagram
of the overall system under taken in this project.

Keywords Android Device, Bluetooth, data logger,


microcontroller

I. INTRODUCTION
This paper presents an data logger implemented using
new technology, with low power consumption. It is a
Bluetooth embedded device which will capture input
voltage signals and transmit them to an external device,
such as a smart-phone, running the Android operating
system. Since the device is wireless it can make use of the
smartphones display and processing power.
It is an open source prototype project called the
Android Bluetooth Data logger, which consisted of a
Bluetooth enabled transmitter circuit to send data to an
Android phone which draws the waveforms on its screen.
The transmitter circuit uses Microchip's LPC2148 and an
LMX9838 Bluetooth 2.0 SPP module. The maximum input
voltage to the circuit is +5 V to -5 V. However, there is no
mention about the bandwidth of the device. Furthermore, it
is stated that the application had been tested with a
smartphone (rooted Android 2.1 OS) phone.

Figure 2.1: Block diagram of the Overall system

For this system we select android operating system ,


because it is an open source service and earlier Android has
nearly 80% worldwide market share of smart phones.
Android has a large community of developers writing
applications. App owner can modify and improve the app
making it more effective and personalized.

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Anyone who has android device can download android
apps online from Google Play store.] Most of the popular
mobile companies like Samsung, Sony, HTC, LG etc. using
android OS in their devices.
Android devices are available in all price segments.
III. BLOCK DIAGRAM AND OPERATION
Digital Mode:
Logic analyzers are typically used for capturing data in
systems that have too many channels to be examined with
an oscilloscope. In this system 8 channel digital inputs are
directly given to the microcontroller which are processed
and transmitted to android device via Bluetooth.
A logic analyzer displays signals in a digital circuit that
are too fast and presents it to a user so that the user can
more easily check correct operation of the digital system.

3.1 MODES OF OPERATION


As shown in block diagram android device application
operate in three modes namely logger mode, digital mode
and function generator mode.

Function Generator Mode:


In Function Generator mode we provide a new feature
called as Design Wave Studio (DWS). In this mode we
provide a GUI (Graphic User Interface) through which the
user can design our own waveform such as sine wave,
Square wave, Triangular wave.
There are endless applications, in which a specific clock
signals are required to drive some digital hardware. With
in-built DAC in the microcontroller our module also
provides analog signals at the required frequency.

Logger mode:
In this mode we can observe given analog signal with
different measurable parameters such as time/division,
volt/division etc on android device display. For this
analog input signal is given to the analog front end input of
the Bluetooth embedded device. Whenever you give analog
input then
ADC converts the analog signal into digital form which
is given to the microcontroller for further process .After
receiving input signal microcontroller unit performs
basically two jobs. First one is Sampling the Input signal
and processing it and second one is transmitting the
samples to the
Bluetooth Module. Finally Bluetooth
module transmits the processed input signal to the android
device where we can observe this signal with different
measurable parameters.

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The smart phone has a 3.0" QVGA 240x320 LCD screen
with Bluetooth v3.0 + HS (High Speed). It is one of the low
cost Android smart phones available in the market to-date.

IV. BLUETOOTH MODULE


Bluetooth module is the wireless communication module
that use in communication between Bluetooth embedded
devices to android mobile. the transmission range of the
Bluetooth module is around 20 m- 30 m which is far
enough for the design Bluetooth is a highspeed,low power,
microwave link technology designed to connect phones,
laptops, pda's,and other portable equipments.

5.1 Why Android Device

4.1 Bluetooth Data Rate Limitations:


From research carried out it was found that data rates of
2 Mbps [2] are not achievable with the existing software
stacks implemented on the modules controller. Therefore,
the approach suggested to fully utilize the Bluetooth
bandwidth, was to use the module in Host Controller
Interface (HCI) mode [2].
The standard mode refers to the on-board stack running
on the Bluetooth module. In HCI mode, the on-board stack
is bypassed and the module is put in a state that runs the
Bluetooth baseband. Therefore, the Bluetooth stack is not
on the module, so it needs to be implemented on the
interfacing host processor. So the module is used as a radio,
performing the lower level MAC functionalities, while the
application stack runs on the host processor. The hardware
interface between the host processor and the module can be
either UART or USB. The advantage of HCI mode is that it
allows to obtain maximum throughput and also to
implement custom profiles on the Bluetooth module.

As we said earlier Android has nearly 80%


worldwide markets share of smartphones.
Android is an open source service.
Android has a large community of developers
writing applications. App owner can modify and
improve the app making it more effective and
personalized.
Anyone who has android device can download
android apps online from Google Play store.
Most of the popular mobile companies like
Samsung, Sony, HTC, LG etc. using android OS
in their devices.
Android devices are available in all price
segments.
VI. RESULTS

The operation of the device was tested by providing test


signals from the signal generator and dc voltages from the
dc power supply. three modes of operation of the device
were tested with different voltages and frequencies applied
to the channels. Figure 3 and 4 show screen shots of the
application displaying the waveforms of three test
conditions.

4.2 Basic Specifications of the Bluetooth Embedded Device

5 volt DC power supply


2 - channel analog signal inputs
8 - channel digital signal inputs
ADC sampling rate: up to 400 KSPS
Sample memory depth: 1024 points
Resolution: 3 mV ( for 10 bit ADC)
Analog signal bandwidth: 20kHz
Bluetooth baud rate: 9600 to 115200
V. ANDROID APPLICATION

The Android application is developed based on the


software development kit (SDK) of Android 2.2 Froyo OS,
API (Application Program interface) level 8. The Android
device used for testing the application is a Samsung Galaxy
Y (GT-S5360) smart phone with Android 2.3.5
Gingerbread OS, an 832 MHz processor and 290 MB of
RAM.

Figure6.1: Logger mode

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The prototype contains
majorly through-hole
components. Surface mount components could be used to
reduce the size of the PCBs and make the device more
portable.
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Figure 6.2: Function Generator mode

VII. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK

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The paper presented a Android based wireless Electronic


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