HAND WASH TIMER

(MINOR PROJECT)
Mentor- Dr. Manan Jani
Submitted by - Aayush Kathuria(35196202818)
Mohit Jangir(35696202818)
Trunmay Deshpande(36196202818)
Ankit Rao(41796202818)
Section- F15
 Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta Institute of Technology & Management
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Vision Of Department : To produce World class Electronics & Communication Engineers through academic excellence
and innovations, who would be competent Technocrats with work ethics to meet the needs of the society

Mission of Department Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

M1. To impart quality education for excelling in the field of PEO1: Graduates shall excel in the field of electronics and
Electronics & Communication Engineering to face real world communication engineering by applying their acquired
challenges in existing and emerging domains. knowledge and skills to develop feasible and viable solutions
to engineering challenges of the country.

M2. To provide a creative platform for promotion of PEO2: Graduates shall be adaptive to innovations and
innovations in the field of Electronics & Communication new technologies which shall lead them to professional
Engineering by keeping close proximity to industry. excellence.

M3. To provide conducive environment for development of PEO3: Graduates shall manage resources skillfully and
work ethics and prepare socially responsible citizens. practice the profession with ethics, integrity and social
responsibility.
 INTRODUCTION
• With the current pandemic in the world, the situation seems pretty scary. The Corona virus might be
anywhere. As far as we know, one might carry the virus for a few days without even showing any
symptoms.
• There are some easy ways we can fight against this virus. One is to wash our hands, properly. We
frequently touch our eyes, nose, and mouth without even noticing it. Germs from unwashed hands might
get into our food as well ,they can make us seriously sick. And washing hands with soap can mostly kill
them.
• But how long do you think you wash your hands? Once or twice? Is it always enough or do you actually
just scratch your hands a little for 5 seconds and wash it off? If we actually count our typical hand
washing time, most of us barely washes for 10 seconds, which is definitely not enough.
• So I wanted to make something simple, something to force us to wash for at least a good 20 second.
 OBJECTIVE
• This simple timer sits next to your hand soap dispenser. It
has a sensor on top that detects when you take your
hand in front of the soap dispenser.
• Then it starts counting down 20 seconds, lighting up one
LED after another. Once the red LED turns on and
buzzer starts buzzing.
• You have washed your hands long enough to kill most of
the germs, and you can wash the soap off with water.
PIN DIAGRAM
 TOOLS USED
• For Coding : Arduino IDE
• Components Used :
• ARDUINO UNO -Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328P .

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/the-tech-lab/fight-coronavirus-simple-ha
ndwash-timer-4dc8ac
•ULTRASONIC SENSOR (HC-SR04) -The HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor is a
sensor used for detecting the distance to an object using sonar.

•ADAPTER - To connect the Arduino to the power supply we have attached a adapter with
Arduino uno which will plugged to the power supply.

•LED-A light-emitting diode.

• BUZZER - A buzzer is an efficient component to include the features of
sound in our system or project.

• JUMPER WIRES- To connect the led’s to the Arduino

 APPLICATIONS
• This project turns the LED red when you start washing hands & will
turn green once twenty seconds are complete thus reminding you to
wash hands for twenty seconds.
• It will help to save water as children kept the tap running while
washing hands but as with the timer led glow up they should close
the tap and after 20 second while the sound start they again run
the tap and wash their hands.
 ADVANTAGES
• This simple project can help keep you safe from the scary virus and
bacteria all around us.
• In test we found that we actually used to wash our hands for a much
shorter time before we used this timer.
• This is a simple project to teach the importance of cleanliness &
washing hands properly in the current times.
 RESULT
• Hand Wash Timer is ready to use. It will sits next to your soap
dispenser and when you will take the soap from the dispenser
the sensor will detecs your presence then the Arduino turns on
the blue LED.
• Then it starts the 20 seconds countdown. Eventually the 3
blue LEDs light up, one by one, over the period of 20
seconds.
• Once the red LED turns up, you have washed your hands for
long enough and you can rinse off the soap.
 CONCLUSION
• We wanted to do what we can to help reduce the spread of the current
COVID-19 pandemic. Hand washing is one of the most widely
recommended actions that everyone can take to help reduce the spread
of the virus, so we designed a device to help washing hands.
• This timer remains the people and elders regarding the time to wash the hand and
time duration to wash their hands.
• This type of circuits will enhance the life of people to safe guard themselves from
virus disease.
• Once the lockout period is removed, this timer can be constructed using real time
components.
• Depending on the requirement, the time periods can be changed simply by
changing the value of resistors and capacitors.
 REFERENCES
1. https://www.Create.arduino.cc/
2. https://www.wikipedia.org/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino_Uno
4. https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/the-tech-lab/fight-coronavirus-si
mple-handwash-timer-4dc8ac
5. https://www.instructables.com/Arduino-1602-IR-Sensor-for-CDC-
Guidelines-Timer/