Arduino based Auto Door unlock control system by
Android mobile through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
M.Muthumari1,
1
Assistant Professor , Electronics and communication
engineering dept. Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.Sakunthala R&D
Institute of Science and Technology
Chennai, India
muthu2s94@gmail.com1,
Abstract—Now a days, Public safety plays a major role in
humans life, it can achieve by developing technology through
making everything automation. Auto door unlock system (ADUS)
is one of the automation technique under home automation. It
can also be called as Bluetooth key with the user mobile phone as
the key to unlock the door. The door can open with the help of
phone Wi-Fi embedded with the camera feature which will give
the snap of the person/s present at the door to the smartphone.
The user can view the person's image and activate the smart door
lock and unlock it, further it can be locked also with one device.
From inside home, it is possible to unlock the door through
Bluetooth, which can be able to install at normal home safety
purposes also and it can be helpful for kids or old age people, as
they can unlock the door with their phone at the place where they
are through Wi-Fi, As long as, they are in the range of Wi-Fi. For
this the home members should install the app in their respective
Smartphone. This will help the people with disability, to open the
door without anyone help and thus lead a normal life.
Keywords— Arduino,Bluetooth,Camera,Auto Door lock,Wi-Fi
I. INTRODUCTION
In the public security area, responsible public institutions
and organization should tap into their own intelligence to
successfully address possible threats in advance to meet the
challenges.
This Auto door unlock system is based on theme “Public
Safety”. Its main purpose is to create safety for locks system
of our homes and offices .It’s about unlocking a door in a
modern and smart way so that we, people can face little bit of
comfort along with safety. Living in a world where there are
some of the bad side of crimes and robbery , our project can
help us all in that situations so that we can keep a record of the
individual/s who visits our home or offices .Genuinely , it can
make the safety of our homes and offices in a very intelligent
manner.
Smart-Lock-System [4] has developed with digital keys for
the digital door unlock system, on that encryption is done by
internet through UTP.A system [6] to unlock door
automatically has implemented through a central server from
it can be able to gather the information. This is made by RFID
reader and wireless RF transmitter and receiver.
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Nitesh Kumar Sah2, Rishu Raj3, Jyotikinkar Saharia4
Student2,3,4, Computer Science engineering dept. Vel Tech
Rangarajan Dr.Sakunthala R&D Institute of Science and
Technology
Chennai, India
Niteshsah982@gmail.com2, go23rishu@gmail.com3,
jksawesome2013@gmail.com4
A GSM based door lock system using PIC microcontroller
[2] is designed with a 5-digit password, which has used to
lock/unlock the doors by using gear motor. It will send a
warning message if the unsuccessful attempts exist more than
three times.
A door lock security system [1] has designed through
Graphical User Interface (GUI) with face recognition system
and PIC microcontroller built with MATLABR2009a.A digital
door lock system [7] for home automation is embedded with a
ZigBee module and RFID reader for opening and closing the
door using sensor nodes.
An automatic door control system [8] is done with DSP
platform by identifying a person using face detection
techniques. The door-lock system [3] has done with android
smart phone, Bluetooth module for sending commands and
controlled through Arduino microcontroller. For home
automation and security, a system [5] is designed with ARM7
LPC2148 board. Home automation is done by Bluetooth.
In this paper, we designed a system for auto door unlock
through Wi-Fi for a long range communication and Bluetooth
for inside home control. Novelty in this application compared
to the above technique is using a wireless camera embedded
with Wi-Fi, which is fixed infront of home. Through that we
can decide whether we have to open the door or not. Section II
describes Working principle. Implementation and discussion
in Section III. Section IV concludes the paper and Section V
Acknowledgement.
II. WORKING PRINCIPLE
A proposed method works on two methods. First operation
on the method of Arduino controlled servo motor operated on
the wireless network, Bluetooth. The project will work with
Bluetooth via smartphone app and another operation works on
the method of P2P camera .P2P camera is a wireless camera
which works on the Wi-Fi connection. It will be controlled via
Wi-Fi smartphone app.
A. Operation 1
When anyone presses the bell, the user in the house will
hear the bell and open the p2p camera app in his phone (the
camera is connected to the android phone via Wi-Fi). The user
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watches the live picture of the person who is standing in front

of the gate which is transmitted by the camera over Wi-Fi. If
the user decides to open the gate then go to operation 2.

Figure 4: Bluetooth module HC-05

E. Servo motor
Figure 1: Block diagram for ADUS operation 1

B. Operation 2

Figure 5: Servo motor

Figure 2: Block diagram for ADUS operation 2
Servomotors, that we used here has rotate approximately
The user connects his phone to the auto door unlocking 180 degree, i.e 90 degree in each direction. It has high output
system via Bluetooth (the Bluetooth installed in our system). power with light weight. It is used in several applications like
To connect his phone he needs app which will control the automatic manufacturing.
servo with the help of Bluetooth connection. This app can be F. Flowchart
found on playstore very easily. The servo motor is connected
to lock in such a way that when it rotates, it pulls the lock and
thus opens the door.
C. P2P Camera

Figure 3: P2P Camera with Wi-Fi facility

D. Bluetooth module
HC-05 module is one of the easiest Serial Port Protocol
Figure 6: Flowchart for ADUS
Bluetooth module, this module is designed for wireless serial
connection setup. It has the following salient features 3Mbps
• Step 1: Hear the bell, once it rings by a person who
Modulation, which has complete 2.4GHz radio transceiver and
came to our home.
baseband.
• Step 2: Switch on camera app in mobile, through that
we can able to see who came to home.
• Step 3: From that camera, decide whether we have to
open the door or not.
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• Step 4: If yes means switch on Bluetooth in mobile
and make a connection with receiver side Bluetooth.
• Step 5: Switch on App for connection servo motor to
the Bluetooth to control the door lock. By setting the
position of lock we can open and close the door.
After seeing that person, if we want to open the door
activate the Bluetooth in mobile as shown in figure 8, from
mobile bluetooth connect to the HC-05 Bluetooth module,
which is connected at the receiver side as shown in figure 8.

III. IMPLEMENTATION AND DISCUSSION

A. Result for operation 1

Figure 9: Bluetooth Connection with mobile at Transmitter side

Figure 7: Designed system Output for Operation 1 from Outside Home door
From figure 7, we can able to see whoever coming to our
home through camera with Wi-Fi,that will send information to
mobile phone. From that mobile by activating the app Camera
Wi-Fi we can identify the person. It is clearly shown in figure-
7. From that app we can able to take a snap shot of the person
who is standing outside and store it for future reference.
B. Result for operation 2
From figure 9, after making connection between
Bluetooths, we have to operate the app and change the
position of the motor interms of degree like 30,60,90.. degree.
By changing the position we can automatically lock and
unlock the door. This can control by connection made with
Arduino and Bluetooth HC-05 as shown in figure 10.

Figure 10: Bluetooth module HC-05 Connection with Arduino at Receiver

side
Figure 8: Designed system output for Operation 2 from inside Home door
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IV. CONCLUSION
The Problem identified on existing method is that every
digital connection can be hacked. So our security connection
can also be hacked. But in the proposed method hacking is
completely avoided through automation on auto door unlock
system with the help of Wi-Fi camera and Bluetooth and
controlled by Arduino. Individuals who try to make the
connection strong, it is recommended to them to go for more
securable and strong camera and strong connection Bluetooth
which cannot be discovered to other devices. It is upon the
technology, people are trying to get it more securable. In this
smart world, we cannot expect security in low budget.
V. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors would like to thank Vel Tech Rangarajan
Dr.Sakunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology and
CDIO workspace in Vel Tech, for their contribution in the
implementation of Auto door unlock system.
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