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DOOR-OPENING ALARM WITH

REMOTE CONTROL
PRADEEP G.

semble.

ommercially available electronic security alarms with remote control

are generally very expensive. Here
is a circuit, with construction details, for a
low-cost door-opening alarm with remote

The circuit
Fig. 1 shows the block diagram of the dooropening alarm with IR remote control. The
circuit has two main parts, namely, a small

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Receiver unit with alarm. The circuit

diagram of the IR receiver unit with alarm
is shown in Fig. 4. IR signals sent by the
transmitter are received by Darlington IR
phototransistor L14F1 (T2) whose bottom
view is shown in Fig. 3. Thus
phototransistor T2 is used here as a sen-

Fig. 1: Block diagram of door-opening alarm using IR remote control

Fig. 2: Circuit of IR remote transmitter unit

control. However, you need not despair as

here we present a low-cost door opening
alarm with remote control. It uses readily
available components and is easy to as-

Fig. 4: Circuit of IR receiver unit with alarm

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infrared remote
transmitter unit and
a receiver unit with
alarm.
Transmitter
unit. Fig. 2 shows
the circuit of the remote transmitter
unit. Its working is
very simple. IC
NE555 (IC1) is used
in
astable
Fig. 3: Bottom
view of L14F1
multivibator mode
IR phototo operate a fretransistor
quency of 1 kHz. A
pnp transistor (T1) drives the IR LED.
Connect a +9V battery to the circuit. Now on pressing switch S1, the transmitter emits a modulated infrared beam
up to 7 metres without the need of any
lens or reflector.

sor.
As IR signals are very weak, these require amplification. So the signals are amplified by the amplifier stage comprising
transistors T3 and T4. Amplified signals
are fed to the triggering circuit comprising
transistors T5, T6, and T7 to trigger the
monostable multivibrator wired around
IC2.
When
IC2 is triggered at pin
2, its output pin 3
goes high
for 5 to 10
seconds.
Time delay
can be set
by a 220k
Fig. 5: Magnet and reed
switch fitted in the door
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CONSTRUCTION
alarm will sound.

Assembling
The door opening alarm uses a
simple magnet-operated two-leads
reed switch as a sensor. Reed switch
S2 is fitted on the door frame using
an adhesive like Feviquick. The
magnet is fitted on the moving part
Fig. 6: Circuit of power supply with battery backup
of the door as shown in Fig. 5.
When the door is fully closed,
(VR). During this time, transistor T8 con- the magnet is close to switch S2 and the
ducts to keep reset pin 4 of astable internal leads of the switch get shorted.
multivibrator IC3 low. Then the alarm gets When the door is opened, the magnet
disabled.
moves away from the reed switch and
Within the preset time period if some- hence the internal leads of the reed switch
body opens the door, i.e. the magnet is get opened.
moved away from reed switch S2, pin 4 of
Assemble the transmitter unit and the
IC3 goes low due to the conduction of alarm unit on separate PCBs. The PCB of
transistor T8 and hence the alarm is not
activated.
After completion of the preset time
period if somebody opens the door, reed
switch S2 also gets opened and pin 4 of
IC3 goes high due to non-conduction of
transistor T8 and hence the alarm is activated.
The actual use of the remote control
is that you can disable the alarm Fig. 7: Actual-size, single-side PCB of
while you open the door. You can keep transmitter unit
the remote control in your pocket. When
you enter the room or go out from
the room, simply direct remote control
to the sensing phototransistor and
momentarily press switch S1. Thus the
alarm is disabled for 5 to 10 seconds.
So during this time, you can open
the door without activation of the alarm.
After this time duration completes,
if anyone tries to open the door, the Fig. 8: Component layout for the PCB in Fig. 7

PARTS LIST
Semiconductors:
IC1-IC3
T1, T9
T2
T3-T4
T5
T6-T8
T10
IR-LED
LED
D1
D2-D5

- NE555 timer
- SK100 pnp transistor
- IR L14F1 photo Darlington
- BC549C npn transistor
- BC558 pnp transistor
- BC548 npn transistor
- 2N3054 pnp power transistor
- LD271 infrared LED
- 5mm red LED
- 1N4148 switching diode
- 1N4001 rectifier diode

Resistors (all -watt, 5% carbon,

unless stated otherwise):
R1
- 150-kilo-ohm
R2
- 1.5-kilo-ohm
R3, R4
- 470-ohm
R5
- 4.7-ohm
R6, R15, R17,
R18, R22, R25
- 10-kilo-ohm
R7, R13
- 4.7-kilo-ohm
R8
- 470-kilo-ohm
R9
- 2.7-kilo-ohm
R10, R21, R23
- 1-kilo-ohm
R11
- 100-kilo-ohm
R12
- 120-ohm
R14
- 22-kilo-ohm
R16
- 3.3-kilo-ohm
R19
- 680-ohm
R20
- 47-kilo-ohm
R24
- 2.2-kilo-ohm
R26
- 100-ohm, 1W
VR
-220k preset
Capacitors:
C1, C2, C5, C9,
C13, C16
C7, C8, C11
C3, C4, C14,
C17
C6
C10
C12
C15
C18
Miscellaneous:
X
S1
S2
LS1
LS2

- 0.01F ceramic disk

- 0.1F ceramic disk
- 100F, 25V electrolytic
- 47pF ceramic disk
- 2.2F, 25V electrolytic
- 10F, 25V electrolytic
- 0.047F ceramic disk
- 1000F, 25V electrolytic
- 230V AC primary to 12V-0-12V,
500mA secondary transformer
- Tactile switch
- Reed switch
- 8-ohm, 1W speaker
- 5-ohm, 10W speaker
- Magnet
- IC bases
- +12V battery
- +9V battery

the transmitter should

be small. All components, excluding timer
IC 555, can be directly
soldered on the PCB.
Use 8-pin IC bases for
timer IC. Try to keep
the length of the wire
between
the
IR
phototransistor and the
receiver PCB as small
as possible. Dont overheat the sensor while
soldering. Use a 25W
soldering iron for soldering.
The unit requires
back-up during power
supply failure. There-

Fig. 9: Actual-size, single-side PCB for receiver unit

Fig. 10: Component layout of the PCB in Fig. 9

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CONSTRUCTION
fore use a 12V DC power supply with
battery for back-up as shown in Fig. 6.
Connect this power supply to the IR receiver unit with alarm.
The actual-size, single-side PCB for the
transmitter circuit (Fig. 2) is shown in Fig.
7 and its component layout in Fig. 8. The
actual-size, single-side PCB for the receiver
circuit with alarm (Fig. 4) and power supply (Fig. 6) is shown in Fig. 9, and its
Please add 10% C.S.T. and
postage charges of Rs 50/-

Fig. 11: Power amplifier circuit for loud sound

component layout in Fig. 10.

If you want the alarm to sound
loudly during the unauthorised opening of the gate, use the power amplifier circuit shown in Fig. 11 with
another suitable power supply. This
circuit uses another power supply with
a 230V AC primary to 12V-0-12V, 2A
secondary transformer and two diodes of 2A rating (D2 and D3).

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