ABSTRACT

This handy, pocket-size mobile transmission detector or sniffer can sense the
presence of an activated mobile cell phone from a distance of one and-a-half meters. So it can
be used to prevent use of mobile phones in examination halls, confidential rooms, etc. It is
also useful for detecting the use of mobile phone for Spying and unauthorized video
transmission. The circuit can detect the incoming and outgoing calls, SMS and video
transmission even if the mobile phone is kept in the silent mode. The moment the Bug detects
RF transmission signal from an activated mobile phone, it starts sounding a beep alarm and
the LED blinks. The alarm continues until the signal transmission ceases.

Assemble the circuit on a general purpose PCB as compact as possible and enclose in
a small box like junk mobile case. As mentioned earlier, capacitor C3 should have a lead
length of 18 mm with lead spacing of 8 mm. Carefully solder the capacitor in standing
position with equal spacing of the leads. The response can be optimized by trimming the lead
length of C3 for the desired frequency. You may use a short telescopic type antenna.Use the
miniature 12V battery of a remote control and a small buzzer to make the gadget pocket-size.
The unit will give the warning indication if someone uses Mobile phone within a radius of
1.5 meters.

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 1.INTRODUCTION

Technology has made a great advancement in the past years and with the evolution in
communication technology cell phones play a vital role in our lives today. But misuse of
these gadgets is also an important problem in our society and here comes the use of a
detector. A detector, as the name indicates is a device that is used to detect anything which is
hidden in a certain range.

A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone, and a hand phone) is a

device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a
wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile
phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. By contrast, a cordless
telephone is used only within the short range of a single, private base station.

The first signal detection technique, an existing design utilizing discrete component is
difficult to implement. They are very affordable to construct, but require precision tuning.
This design is analyzed and found to be inaccurate

In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of

other services such as text messaging, MMS, email, Internet access, short-range wireless
communications (infrared, Bluetooth), business applications, gaming and photography.
Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to
as smart phones.

A cell phone detector detects the presence or existence of a cell phone within a defined range
of operation. It is a technological device that works by transmitting signals and indicates
using a buzzer or LED on receiving back signals from cell phones. The transmission and
receiving frequency range of cell phones is from 0.9-3GHz. A simple circuit for a mobile
detector with a working explanation is given below.

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OBJECTIVE:

A mobile phone detector can detect the activation of a mobile phone such as;
incoming and ongoing phone calls, messages, and things in that nature. Mobile
phone detectors can be used for spying on someone and for unauthorized video
transmission.

LITERATURE REVIEW :

Today, mobile phones are very common and prevalent in our society. Human relationship
and mental concentration are now replaced by electronic connections.Mobile phones have
become a necessity and this industry is taking every one’s mind by storm. This technology
brought many facilities with it i.e. convenience, ease of usage, accessibility because of which
people gets connected with each other in case of emergency, can enjoy music, can carry it
anywhere And many more. Alexander Graham Bell was the first one to patent telephone in
the year 1876. Dr. Martin Cooper is known worldwide as the inventor of the modern day cell
phone. He not only created the device but he was also the first individual to place a call from
a mobile phone in 1973. The concept of e cell phone had been around since 1947, it took 26
years for that concept to make it to reality. . For many people cell phones have become their
whole life. Children in today’s times know a lot more about using these devices than parents.
Therefore, Parents generally need their child’s assistance to help them learn how to operate it.
In return, this allows parents and children to have a certain bond and talk to each other more
often than they did.More than half (53%) of teens that text message think their relationship
with their parents has improved because of text messaging. Cell phones have become so
popular that it has decreased face to face interaction which is not a healthy impact of life. In a
survey conducted among the college students of 475, most of own a mobile phone while
some of them have more than one phone. There are many who use more than one SIM in
their phones. Some of them use smart phones. 90% of the students use the phone on internet
to chat with their friends and most of them spent te in SMS’s. There are a few who browse
their assignments and work. About 80% (percent) for listening to music and entertainment
and spent most evenings with these gadgets. In today’s recession-racked economy, penny-
pinching is a national pastime. But people are still opening their wallets for
smartphones.Sales of Blackberry’s, iPhones and other smartphone models are rising smartly
and are projected to increase 25 percent this year, according to Gartner, a research business.

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BLOCK DIAGRAM :

Based on the block diagram of figure, the circuit design of each block was designed andthe fi
nal circuit integrated together. The subsequent sections explain the detail and design ofeach b
lock diagram

CIRCIUT DIAGRAM

FEASIBLE STUDY

The cell phone detector is a technological device that detects the presence and existence of
cell phones in an area or within a stipulated range of operation. Once this cell phone detector
detects the presence of a cell phone, the phone detector system raises the alarm and speak to
the mobile phone user to switch it off. The cell phone detector has different ways of alerting
the user of the phone; it does this by either sending an alert message, a single beep of the
detector or ringtone. The operator of this device can record a voice message or write a
customized text message that will be sent to every phone detected. This is a great way to

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prevent the use of cell phones in examination halls, worship sites, private rooms, etc. The use
of the cell phone detector is also one of the ways of managing cell phones in the classroom.
The cell phone detectors are not only meant to be used to discover mobile devices that are in
the conversation mode alone, but they can also be used for those that are in standby mode or
switched on generally. Since it is not always possible to check everybody entering sensitive
places like worship places, libraries, or any strategic site, the use of a cell phone detector will
be important in such places. They can be used as rescue devices, and the authorities will use
them to clear out all the unwanted things.

PROJECT METHODOLOGY :

Here we are designing plant monitoring and smart gardening system using Iot with
the help of a controller Raspberry Pi. All the parameters of the garden like temperature,
humidity, moisture, light intensity are controlled with the help of sensors like humidity
sensor, moisture sensor, LDR, temperature sensor is interfaced with the Raspberry Pi board.
And this information about the garden can be directly monitored and controlled by the owner
of the garden through his or her mobile phone using Iot. The proposed system is generally for
the people who love gardening but are busy in their jobs or day- to- day lives. It is not
possible for the people to maintain garden regularly. This will cause improper growth of the
plants. This system helps to solve those worries. Thus, by installation of this application on
theowner‘s smart phone the user can forget about watering the plants on a regular basis. This
proposed system takes care of this tedious job. Moreover,this system also tracks humidity,
soil and air temperature, pH, light intensity. It then uploads this information to cloud through
the database. Humidity is the presence of water in the air. The presence of water vapor also
influences various physical, chemical and biological processes. Humidity measurement
determines the amount of water vapor present in the gas.

PROPOSED METHOD

Among the detection techniques described in Section 2.3, the RF spectrum approach wasselec
ted for implementation. The choice of this selection was based on the ease ofimplementation 
due to readily availability of the discrete components required in the localmarket. The most ef
fective method is the implementation using voltage controlled oscillator(VCO), frequency do
wn-converter and a band pass filter. However, due to the unavailabilityof the components req

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uired in the local market, the method could not be implemented withinthe timeline of this proj
ectPROJECT DESIGN :

The detector circuit consists of an inductor, diode, a capacitor and a resistor.  Here an
inductor value of 10uH is chosen. A Schottky diode BAT54 is chosen as the detector diode,
which can rectify low frequency AC signal. The filter capacitor chosen in a 100nF ceramic
capacitor, used to filter out AC ripples. A load resistor of 100 Ohms is used.

Applications
1. This circuit can be used at examination halls, meetings to detect presence of mobile
phones and prevent the use of cell phones.
2. It can be used for detecting mobile phones used for spying and unauthorized
transmission of audio and video.
3. It can be used to detect stolen mobile phones.

WORKING PRINCIPLE

The Op-amp part of the circuit acts as the RF Signal Detector while Transistor part of the
circuit act as the indicator. The capacitors collection along with the antenna are used to detect
RF Signals when a cell phone makes (or receives) a phone call or sends (or receives) a text
message. Op-Amp reads the signals by converting the rise in current at input to voltage at
output and the LED will be activated.

COMPONENTS REQUIRED :

BREAD BOARD :

A breadboard, or protoboard, is a construction base for prototyping of electronics.

Originally the word referred to a literal brwead board, a polished piece of wood used when
slicing bread(1). In the 1970sthe solderless breadboard (a.k.a. plugboard, a terminal array
board) became available and now-a-days the term “breadboard” is commonly used to refer
these.

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 Figure Bread Board

A common use in the system on a chip (SoC) era is to obtain

an microcontroller (MCU) on a pre-assembled printed circuit board (PCB) which exposes an
array of input/output (IO) pins in a header suitable to plug into a breadboard, and then to
prototype a circuit which exploits one or more of the MCU's peripherals, such as  general-
purpose input (or) output (GPIO),  UART/USART serial transceivers, analog-to-digital
converter (ADC), digital-to-analog converter (DAC), pulse-width modulation (PWM; used
in motor control), Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), or I²C.

LED LIGHT :
A LED lamp or LED light bulb is an electric light for use in light fixtures that
produces light using light-emitting diode (LED).LED lamps have a lifespan and electrical
efficiency which are ten times greater than incandescent lamps, and are significantly more
efficient than most fluorescent lamps However, an LED lamp will never be as efficient as the
LED chips it uses, due to losses from the LED driver that is required to use LEDs on mains
voltage (or on the mains supply). The most efficient commercially LED lamps have
efficiencies of 200 lumens per watt (lm/w).

Working principle : Electroluminescence

Pin configuration : Anode and Cathode

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 Figure

JUMPERS

In electronics and particularly computing, a juniper is a short length of conductor used

to close , open or bypass part of an electronic circuit. They are typically used to set up or
configure printed circuit boards, such as the motherboards of computers. The process of
setting a jumpers is often called strapping.

CAPACITORS :

A capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy in an electric field. It is

a passive electronic component with two terminals.

The effect of a capacitor is known as  capacitance. While some capacitance exists between any
two electrical conductors in proximity in a circuit, a capacitor is a component designed to add
capacitance to a circuit. The capacitor was originally known as a condenser or condensator.[1] This
name and its cognates are still widely used in many languages, but rarely in English, one notable
exception being condenser microphones, also called capacitor microphones.

An ideal capacitor is characterized by a constant capacitance C, in farads in the SI system of

units, defined as the ratio of the positive or negative charge Q on each conductor to the
voltage V between them:

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 C = Q/V

A capacitance of one farad (F) means that one coulomb of charge on each conductor causes a

voltage of one volt across the device. Because the conductors (or plates) are close together,
the opposite charges on the conductors attract one another due to their electric fields,
allowing the capacitor to store more charge for a given voltage than when the conductors are
separated, yielding a larger capacitance.

In practical devices, charge build-up sometimes affects the capacitor mechanically, causing
its capacitance to vary. In this case, capacitance is defined in terms of incremental changes:

C = dQ / dV

Capacitance (symbol C) is a measure of a capacitor's ability to store charge. A large

capacitance means that more charge can be stored. Capacitance is measured in farads, symbol
F. However 1F is very large, so prefixes (multipliers) are used to show the smaller values:

µ (micro) means 10-6 (millionth), so 1000000µF = 1F

n (nano) means 10-9 (thousand-millionth), so 1000nF = 1µF

p (pico) means 10-12 (million-millionth), so 1000pF = 1nF

RESISTOR :
A resistor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical
resistance as a circuit element. In electronic circuits, resistors are used to reduce current flow,
adjust signal levels, to divide voltages, bias active elements, and terminate transmission lines,
among other uses. High-power resistors that can dissipate many watts of electrical power as
heat may be used as part of motor controls, in power distribution systems, or as test loads
for generators. Fixed resistors have resistances that only change slightly with temperature,
time or operating voltage. Variable resistors can be used to adjust circuit elements (such as a
volume control or a lamp dimmer), or as sensing devices for heat, light, humidity, force, or
chemical activity.

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The specifications were as follows

Type : Passive

Working Principle : Resistance

Resistors are common elements of electrical networks and electronic circuits and

are ubiquitous in electronic equipment. Practical resistors as discrete components can be
composed of various compounds and forms. Resistors are also implemented within integrated
circuits.
The electrical function of a resistor is specified by its resistance: common
commercial resistors are manufactured over a range of more than nine orders of magnitude.
The nominal value of the resistance falls within the manufacturing tolerance, indicated on the
component.

BUZZER

Piezoelectricity is the ability of some materials (notably crystals and certain ceramics,
including bone) to generate an electric field or electric potential[1] in response to applied
mechanical stress. The effect is closely related to a change of polarization density within the
material's volume. If the material is not short-circuited, the applied stress induces a voltage
across the material. The word is derived from the Greek piezo or piezein, which means to
squeeze or press.

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 A buzzer or beeper is a signaling device, usually electronic, typically used in
automobiles, household appliances such as microwave ovens, or game shows.

It most commonly consists of a number of switches or sensors connected to a control unit that
determines if and which button was pushed or a preset time has lapsed, and usually
illuminates a light on the appropriate button or control panel, and sounds a warning in the
form of a continuous or intermittent buzzing or beeping sound.

IC CA3130 :

PIN DIAGRAM

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555 TIMER IC

The NE555 IC is a highly stable controller capable of producing accurate timing pulses. With
a monostable operation, the time delay is controlled by one external resistor and one
capacitor. With an astable operation, the frequency and duty cycle are accurately controlled
by two external resistors and one capacitor.

Ground, is the input pin of the source of the negative DC voltage trigger, negative input from
the lower comparators (comparator B) that maintain oscillation capacitor voltage in the
lowest 1 / 3 Vcc and set RS flip-flop output, the output pin of the IC 555. reset, the pin that
serves to reset the latch inside the IC to be influential to reset the IC work. This pin is
connected to a PNP-type transistor gate, so the transistor will be active if given a logic low.
Normally this pin is connected directly to Vcc to prevent reset control voltage, this pin serves
to regulate the stability of the reference voltage negative input (comparator A). This pin can
be left hanging, but to ensure the stability of the reference comparator A, usually associated
with a capacitor of about 10nF to berorde pin ground threshold, this pin is connected to the
positive input (comparator A) which will reset the RS flip-flop when the voltage on the
capacitor from exceeding 2 / 3 Vc 7discharge, this pin is connected to an open collector
transistor Q1 is connected to ground emitternya. Switching transistor serves to clamp the
corresponding node to ground on the timing of certain vcc, pin it to receive a DC voltage
supply. Usually will work optimally if given a 5-15V. the current supply can be seen in the
datasheet, which is about 10-15mA.

Applications

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• Precision Timing

• Pulse Generation

• Time Delay Generation

• Sequential Timing

CONCLUSION

This pocket-size mobile transmission detector or sniffer can sense the presence of an
activated mobile cellphone from a distance of one and-a-half metres. So it can be used to
prevent use of mobile phones in examination halls, confidential rooms, etc. It is also useful
for detecting the use of mobile phone for spying and unauthorised video transmission.

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