A SMART HAND GESTURES

BASED COMMUNICATION
SYSTEM USING ARDUINO

A PROJECT PHASE I REPORT

Submitted by

V.ARASU (20EC033)
M.BOOMIKA (20EC040)
J.GOPIKA (20EC052)

in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

of

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
IN

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

MUTHAYAMMAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE

[An Autonomous Institution]
RASIPURAM

JAN 2024

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 MUTHAYAMMAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE

BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

Certified that this project report “A SMART HAND

GESTURES BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING
ARDUINO” is the bonafide work of “ARASU V, BOOMIKA M,
GOPIKA J” who carried out the project Phase I work under my
supervision.

SIGNATURE SIGNATURE
Dr. U. SARAVANAKUMAR., Mr. M.HARIHARAN
HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT SUPERVISOR
PROFESSOR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of ECE Department of ECE
Muthayammal Engineering College Muthayammal Engineering
College Rasipuram, Rasipuram,
Namakkal-637 408. Namakkal-637 408.

Submitted to the Viva Voce Examination held on

INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL EXAMINER

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 ABSTRACT

The main aim of the project is to implement a low cost reliable system which will
help to establish communication between paralytic or disabled patients and a nurse.
A patient can easily send messages to the nurse by just tilting an accelerometer
connected to a body part capable of movement. This angle of tilt is sent to a central
controller which then initiates communication between the patient (transmitter) and
nurse (receiver) and also decides which message is to be transmitted based on the tilt
angle. Accelerometer as the main part of our project. It is the device which is used to
detect the motion. We will put the accelerometer on any movable body part of person
who is physically challenged. If he got some problem, he will move the body part
which contain accelerometer in particular direction as per the programming. Device
will detect the motion and will give an output signal to the Arduino Uno. Arduino
will detect input as per the programming done for the direction of accelerometer.
Each patient will have such a device installed on or around his body and all such
patients will be centrally linked to the receiver at the nurse side.
Along with this a real time medicine reminder and an emergency buzzer to simplify
the work of the nurse was implemented. Output is shown on LCD as well as in the
form of recorded voice with the help of voice recorder & playback apr33a3. Our
project provides a reliable, effective and simple yet important solution to various
issues faced by nurses in traditionally communicating with disabled patients.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost we thank the almighty, the greatest Electronics and
Communication Engineers of the universe for giving us such a speculate years.
This is the time to express foremost thanks and gratitude to the honorable
Shri. R. KANDASAMY, Chairman of Muthayammal Educational Trust and
Research Foundation for providing the excellent infrastructure to carry out this
project.
We wish to express our heartfelt gratitude and hearted thanks to our Secretary
Dr. K. GUNASEKARAN, M.E., Ph.D., F.I.E, Muthayammal Educational Trust
and Research Foundation, for the motivation, esteemed co-operation and
encouragement throughout this work.
We express our sincere thanks and profound gratitude to the principal
Dr. M. MADHESWARAN, M.E., Ph.D., MBA, Muthayammal Engineering
College, for granting permission to undertake this project.
We have immense pleasure in expressing our sincere gratitude to our Dean of
Product and Consultancy Dr. B. GOPI, M.E., Ph.D., for his meticulous guidance
which was an inspiration to us.
Perhaps our deepest thanks go to Dr. U. SARAVANAKUMAR, M.E., Ph.D., Head
of the Department, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, for
his stimulating comments, which helped us in bringing things in our way.
We also express gratitude and heart full thanks to our project coordinator
Dr. R. PRAVEENA M.E., Ph.D., Associate professor, who has motivated us in the
completion of the project.
We are very thankful to Mr. M.HARIHARAN M.E., Supervisor, our project guide,
who has constantly motivated and inspired us in rending to completion of the project.
We also express our gratefulness to our parents, our faculty members and friends for
their affectionate blessings and loving co-operation at all stages of this academic
venture.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
NUMBER
NUMBER TITLE
ABSTRACT iii
LIST OF TABLES vi
LIST OF FIGURES vii
LIST OF ABBREVATIONS viii
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS 1
1.1.1 APPLICATIONS 2
1.2 AREA MONITORING 3
1.4 CHARACTERISTICS 3

2 LITERATURE SURVEY 4

3 EXISITING SYSTEM 5

4 PROPOSED SYSTEM 6
5 BLOCK DIAGRAM 6
5.1 TRANSMITTER 6
5.2 RECEIVER 7
6 HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION 7
6.1 RF TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER 7
6.2 ARDUINO UNO R3
9
MICROCONTROLLER
6.3 USB OVER CURRENT PROTECTION 14
7 SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION 20
7.1 EMBEDDED C 20

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7.1.2 PROGRAMMING 21
7.1.3 C AND EMBEDDED C 22
7.2 KEIL C51 C COMPILERS 22
CONCLUSION 24
REFERENCE 24

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE NO TITLE PAGE NO

6.1 Components and Specifications 11

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FIGURE NO TITLE PAGE NO

1.1 Sensor Network Connections 2

5.1 Block diagram of Transmitter 7

5.2 Block diagram of Receiver 7

6.1 RF Transmitter and Receiver 9

6.2 DFU Architecture 10

6.3 ATmega 328 Pin Mapping 13

6.4 Block Diagram of Relay 16

6.5 LCD Display 18

6.6 LCD Pin Description 20

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 LIST OF SYMBOLS & ABBREVIATIONS

PCA Patent Controlled Analgesia.

USB Universal Serial Bus.

ICSP In - Circuit Serial Programming.

SDA Serial Data Line.

SCL Serial Clock Line.

AREF Analog Reference.

AVR Automatic Voltage Regulator.

Ma Mega Ampere.

MHZ Mega Heartz.

KB Kilo Byte.

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