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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Radio Remote Control using DTMF

Radio Remote Control using DTMF Schematic

Here is a circuit of a remote control unit which makes use of the radio abundance signals to ascendancy assorted electrical appliances. This alien ascendancy assemblage has 4 channels which can be calmly continued to 12. This ambit differs from agnate circuits in appearance of its artlessness and a absolutely altered abstraction of breeding the ascendancy signals. Usually alien ascendancy circuits accomplish use of bittersweet ablaze to address ascendancy signals. Their use is appropriately bound to a actual bedfast breadth and line-of-sight. However, this ambit makes use of radio abundance to address the ascendancy signals and appropriately it can be acclimated for ascendancy from about anywhere in the house.

Here we accomplish use of DTMF (dual-tone multi frequency) signals (used in telephones to punch the digits) as the ascendancy codes. The DTMF tones are acclimated for abundance accentuation of the carrier. At the receiver unit, these abundance articulate signals are intercepted to access DTMF tones at the apostle terminals. This DTMF arresting is affiliated to a DTMF-to-BCD advocate whose BCD achievement is acclimated to switch-on and switch-off assorted electrical appliances.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

DTMF Proximity Detector

A DTMF-based IR transmitter and receiver pair can be used to realize a proximity detector. The schema presented here enables you to detect any object capable of reflecting the IR beam and moving in front of the IR LED photo-detector pair up to a distance of about 12 cm from it. The schema uses the commonly available telephony ICs such as dial-tone generator 91214B/91215B (IC1) and DTMF decoder CM8870 (IC2) in conjunction with infrared LED (IR LED1), photodiode D1, and other components as shown in the figure. A properly regulated 5V DC power supply is required for operation of the schema.

The transmitter part is configured around dialer IC1. Its row 1 (pin 15) and column 1 (pin 12) get connected together via transistor T2 after a power-on delay (determined by capacitor C1 and resistors R1 and R16 in the base schema of the transistor) to generate DTMF tone (combination of 697 Hz and 1209 Hz) corresponding to keypad digit “1” continuously. LED 2 is used to indicate the tone output from IC3. This tone output is amplified by Darlington transistor pair of T3 and T4 to drive IR LED1 via variable resistor VR1 in series with fixed 10-ohm resistor R14. Thus IR LED1 produces tone-modulated IR light.

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Variable resistor VR1 controls the emission level to vary the transmission range. LED 3 indicates that transmission is taking place. A part of modulated IR light signal transmitted by IR LED1, after reflection from an object, falls on photodetector diode D1. (The photodetector is to be shielded from direct IR light transmission path of IR LED1 by using any opaque partition so that it receives only the reflected IR light.) On detection of the signal by photodetector, it is coupled to DTMF decoder IC2 through emitter-follower transistor T1.

When the valid tone pair is detected by the decoder, its StD pin 15 (shorted to TOE pin 10) goes ‘high’. The detection of the object in proximity of IR transmitter-receiver combination is indicated by LED1. The active-high logic output pulse (terminated at connector CON1, in the figure) can be used to switch on/off any device (such as a siren via a latch and relay driver) or it can be used to clock a counter, etc. This DTMF proximity detector finds applications in burglar alarms, object counter and tachometers, etc.