CONSTRUCTION OF A RAIN DETECTOR SYSTEM

BY

SALAUDEEN FATAI ADEOLA 2120230025

ADEOSUN SAMUEL ADERINSOLA 2120210001

SUBMITTED TO

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

ADESEUN OGUNDOYIN POLYTECHNIC, ERUWA

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE

IN ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING.

JANUARY, 2024.

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 CERTIFICATION
This is to certify that this project was carried out under my supervision by

SALAUDEEN FATAI ADEOLA 2120230025

ADEOSUN SAMUEL ADERINSOLA 2120210001

of the Department of electrical electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Adeseun

Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa. Oyo State.

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Engr. (Mrs.) Adeyeye A.H DATE
Supervisor

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Engr. Ogundeji O. A. DATE
H.O.D

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 DEDICATION

This project is dedicated to Almighty God, the creator of the universe, the author and finisher of

everything. It is this God who inspires and gives wisdom, knowledge, strength, understanding

and ability to embark on the course and finish successfully.

I also dedicated this project to my family most especially Our Parent who make use of their

resources morally, financially and spiritually.

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 AKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost, we will like to express our special thanks of gratitude to almighty God, who

gave us an opportunity and grace to succeed on this project.

And also thank our HOD (Engr Ogundeji O. A) who guided us through doing these projects.

She provided us with invaluable advice and helped us in difficult periods. Her motivation and

help contributed tremendously to the successful completion of the project. Besides, we would

like to thank all the Lecturers who helped us by giving us advice and providing the equipment

which we needed.

Also, we would like to thank family and friends for their support. Without that support we

couldn’t have succeeded in completing this project.

At last but not in least, we would like to thank everyone who helped and motivated us to work

on this project. Lastly to my entire course mate, I say a big thank you for your moral and

academic support.

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 ABSTRACT

This work focuses on using rain sensors to activate protectors using the agricultural sector as a
case study. The intent of this work is to use rain sensor as a protector for valuable items that are
rains sensitive to reduce over employment especially in the agricultural sector of the Nigerian
economy. Thereby saving cost of labour to the employers and saving time and energy. The
objective was to use original components and equipment in the construction, the programming
language was also put into consideration. During the construction process, the rain sensor
circuit was tested on a bread board before it was transferred to the Vero board and lastly the rain
sensor was constructed. This was to get rid of excess cost resulting from errors in the
implementation of the circuit design. The implementation procedure adopted in this work was
first designing the circuit with the use of Proteus. The second step was to implement the circuit
on a breadboard. The third step was to implement the circuit on a Vero board, test and run. Then
extensive ranges of tests were performed to determine the reliability and functionality of the
device for 10 days. This achieved desired results in the time it takes the protector to respond to
the signal produced from the output of the sensor. Possible recommendations were highlighted
aimed at improving it the more. The possible recommendations pointed out were the
implementation of usage of the device to areas of the economy whether domestically,
commercially or industrially, and the future researchers should follow up with a microcontroller
like PIC or ARDUINO which has internal EEPROM and the more advance EEPROM
technology/ data logger. This design can be controlled by a simple incorporation of a voltage or
current control machine/ induction system. And with the EEPROM, the operational settings of
this dryer controller and its logged data can then be permanently stored on non-volatile
registers/ ROM that preserve the logged data/ settings even when battery has being removed.

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

TITLE PAGE i

CERTIFICATION ii

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGMENT iv

ABSTRACT v

TABLE OF CONTENT vi

LIST OF TABELS viii

LIST FIGURES ix

1. CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.0 Background of the project 1

1.1 Problem Statement 3

1.2 Aim of the Project 3

1.3 Objectives of the project 3

1.4 Significant of the project 3

1.5 Scope of the Project 5

1.6 Arrangement of the Project 5

2. CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Introduction 6

2.2 Historical overview of a rain sensing devices 6

2.3 Related work 7

2.4 Definition of terms 8

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 2.5 Components used and their definitions 9

3. CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY

3.1 Block Diagram of the System 17

3.2 Circuit Diagram and Operation 17

3.3 System Flow Chart 19

3.4 Construction Methodology 19

3.5 The ASM code 20

3.6 The Hexadecimal code/Hex file generated 20

3.7 The 89S52 Micro Controller Programming Process 21

4. CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS AND ANALYSIS

4.1 Test and Result 23

4.2 Discussion of Results 24

4.3 Bill of Engineering Measurement and Evaluation 24

5. CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1 Conclusion 26

5.2 Recommendation 26

REFERENCES 27

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 LIST OF TABLES

Page

Table 4.1: Test results 23

Table 4.2: Bill of engineering measurement and evaluation (BEME) 24

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 LIST OF FIGURES

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Fig. 2.1 A Resistive Rain Sensor 10

Fig 2.2: Pin configuration of 89S52 chip 12

Fig 2.3 LCD pin description 16

Fig 3.1 System block diagram 17

Fig 3.2 Circuit diagram of the system 17

Fig 3.3 Flow chart of the system 19

Fig 4.1: Line chart of reliability/functionality of the designed system 24

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