MOBILE PHONE

DETECTOR
BYAKSHAY.A.JADHAV
(es12b1004)

Indian Institute of Technology

Hyderabad

Introduction
This project is a simple cell phone detector project.
This handy cell phone detector, pocket size mobile
transmission sniffer can sense the presence of an
active cell phone in a radius of 1m-1.5m.
As the cell phone sends or receives a message or call,
it sends off a signal. This signal is detected by our
circuit and will cause the LED to blink and buzzer to
sound. This is the basic principle of the project.
This simple circuit can detect any cellphone activities
like sending or receiving calls or SMS, or any type of
data transmission.

Circuit Diagram :

Working :
The transmission frequency of a mobile ranges from
0.9GHz to 3GHz.So a circuit capable of detecting
gigahertz signals is needed.
So we use a disk capacitor C4(220nF), which will
capture the signals from the active cell phone
transmission. The disk capacitor along with its leads
form a small gigahertz loop to catch the signals.
The IC CA3130 is an op-amp, that is used in this circuit
as a current to voltage converter. The capacitor C4 leads
are the input for the IC1.
The IC1 provides the base voltage to the transistor Q1.

Capacitor C5 (47pF) is connected across strobe (pin

8) and null inputs (pin 1) of IC1 for phase
compensation and gain control to optimize the
frequency response.
As the capacitor C4 receives the signal, the output of
IC1 becomes high and low alternately depending on
the frequency of the signal. This triggers the timer IC2
through capacitor C6 and the LED starts blinking and
the piezoelectric buzzer starts sounding due to the
timing components R5(10k) and C7(47uF) which set
the ON time to 1 second.

Uses :
1)It can be used to avoid the usage of mobile phones in
examination halls, seminar halls, quizzes etc.
2)It can be used to avoid video transmission in a secret
or private meeting.
3)It can be used for military and civil defense purposes
to detect mobile phones by increasing its radius of
range.
4)It can be used in hospitals and airplanes where,
mobile signals interfere with the electronic equipment
which may have fatal consequences.
And many more uses

THANK YOU!