IRJET- Wireless Notice Board using Raspberry Pi

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Wireless Notice Board using Raspberry Pi
Mrs. C. Preethibha M.E.1, Dhanasekar. L2, John Rencinapreethi. S3, Madhan Kumar4, Sweatha. S5
1Assistant Professor,Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Park College of Engineering and
Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.
2,3,4,5Students, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Park College of Engineering and
Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Abstract - The main aim of this project is to develop a
wireless notice board for displaying the announcements and
notices. It is a smart board developed as user friendly notice
board with wireless concept that offers the flexibility to
control the notice board. This notice board is made to
overcome the messy wiring of earlier electronic wired model.
It’s objective is to increase the speed of communication, saving
time and resources.
Key Words: Raspberry Pi, LCD, Raspbian, Android app,
Google Firebase
1. INTRODUCTION
Notice board plays a vital role in displaying the message up-
to-day. The main aim of this paper is to present a reliable
notice board with low cost. The LCD display is connected
with Raspberry Pi to display the message. Here an Android
app is developed by which a number of authenticated users
can access through this app and send messages from
anywhere. The message will be displayed on the screen by
the web server. The Android appisdevelopedusing MITApp
inventor. It provides a great platform in the path of
digitalization.
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
Neeraj Khera and Divya Shukla, IEEE 2016[2]hasdeveloped
an Android based wireless notice board. Their proposed
system uses Bluetooth based wireless serial data
communication. For this purpose android based application
programs for Bluetooth communication between Android
based personal assistantdevicesandwirelessdisplayboards
are used. A low cost microcontroller board (Arduino Uno) is
programmed to receive and display messages. But they can
be accessed for short distances. Dharmendra KumarSharma
and Vineet Tiwari, IEEE 2015[1] introduces a handheld
wireless electronic notice board by usingAtmel'sATmega32
microcontroller, Bluetooth and Zig-Bee. Their performance
was analyzed based on the parameters such as range, BER
(bit error rate), RSSI (Received signal strength indicator),
power consumption and signal attenuation. The board
receives information from wireless receiver in a serial
manner and displays it on the graphical liquid display. From
the survey made above we came to a conclusionthata notice
board must be developed with simple kits and in low cost.
We have realized a common communicationreceiverhaving
compatibility with both wireless modules i.e. Wi-Fi.
3. EXISTING SYSTEM
In early days GSM technology is used for displaying
information. Here GSM module is used to receive
information from the user. In this work only one message
can be transferred. It also displays only the text messages.
Hence we cannot transfer other than text messages. By the
introduction of Bluetooth technology communications
become faster. In this technology, an android application is
used for sending messages. It includes cable replacement
and data can be sent up to the rate of 1 Mb per sec. Bluetooth
also has limited range of 70 m to 100 m approximately. To
increase the range of communication Zig-Bee based notice
boards are introduced. But here data rate is only about 250
Kb per sec.
4. PROPOSED SYSTEM
The operation of wireless notice board is that when a user
sends a message through the Android app that data is
received by Raspberry Pi which is with Wi-Fi connection.
The Raspbian OS is installed in SD card. The Android app is
developed using the MIT App Inventor. The app is first
installed in the user’s mobile phone. The MIT App Inventor
creates a Google Firebase account wherein we can store the
data. The data can be accessed using My SQL and by Python
programming. The web link is developed to connect the
Android app and LCD display. The Raspberry Piisconnected
to the LCD display using the HDMI cable. The message sent
by the user is retrieved to LCD display through HDMI cable.
It displays the message with user name and ID. In this setup
we can also send the videos. The data displayed on screen
are stored in Excel Sheet for future reference. Thus it is very
useful for the faculty members.

Fig-1: Block Diagram of Wireless Notice Board using
Raspberry Pi
Fig-2: Power Source
5. COMPONENTS DESCRIPTION
5.1 Raspberry Pi: The Raspberry Pi is a series of small
single-board computer used to promote teaching of basic
computer science in schools and in developing countries.
The peripherals such as mouse and keyboard are not
included.
5.2 Speed and Memory: Processor speed ranges from 700
MHz to 1.4 GHz. The memory ranges from 256 MB to 1GB
RAM. Secure Digital (SD) cards are used to store the
operating system and program memory. The boards have
one to four USB ports. For video output, HDMI and
composite video are supported, with a standard 3.5 mm tip-
ring-sleeve jack for audio output. Lower-level output is
provided by a number of GPIO pins.
5.3 Raspberry Pi 3: Raspberry Pi 3 has a 1.2 GHz 64-bit
quad core processor, on-board Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB
capabilities. It has a faster 1.4 GHz processor and has three
times faster gigabit Ethernet or 2.4/5 GHz dual-band Wi-Fi.
Other features include Power over Ethernet (PoE), network
boot and USB boot. The Pi 3 can boot from USB,suchasfrom
a flash drive.
Fig-3: Raspberry Pi 3 kit
Fig-4: Raspberry Pi 3 Pin Diagram
5.4 Raspbian Software: Raspbian is a Debian based Linux
distribution for operating system. Thereareseveral versions
5V DC
SOURCE
RASPBERRY
PI
LCD
DISPLAY
GOOGLE
FIREBASE
MOBILE

of Raspbian such as Raspbian Stretch and Raspbian Jessie.
Raspbian uses PIXEL, Pi Improved X-Window Environment,
Lightweight as its main desktop environment. The
distribution is shipped with a copy of computer algebra
program Mathematical and a version of Minecraft called
Minecraft Pi and a lightweight version of Chromium.
5.5 LCD Display: Liquid Crystal Display is a flat-panel
display which uses the light-modulating properties of liquid
crystals. LCDs can display images such as preset words,
digits, and seven-segment displays. LCDs are used in a wide
range of applications, including LCD televisions, computer
monitors, instrument panels, aircraft cockpit display and
signage.
5.6 7 inch LCD Display: The 7 inch standard display has
1024*600 hardware resolution. It supports back light, the
backlight can be turned off for saving power. It supports
Raspberry Pi, BB Black, Banana Pi andminiPC.Itcanbeused
as general purpose HDMI monitor. It can be used as a
Raspberry Pi display whichsupportsRaspbian,Ubuntu,Kali-
Linux, Kodi, Win10 IoT, single touch, free drive. It worksasa
PC monitor and can support win7, win8, win10 system.
Fig-5: 7 inch LCD Display
5.7 Android Application: Android provides an application
platform to build the applications and games for mobiles in
Java Programming language. Android apps are built as a
combination of distinct components that can be invoked
individually. Apps can adapt to different devices. Android
provides a flexible application platform providefordifferent
device configurations.
5.8 Python: Python is a general-purpose, high-level
programming language. Its design emphasizes code
readability, and syntax allows programmers to express
concepts in fewer lines of code. Python features both a
dynamic type system and automatic memory management.
Python supports multiple programming paradigm. It
features a automatic memory management and has a
standard library. Python interpreters are available for
installation on many operating systems. Python was
designed to be highly extensible.
5.9 My SQL: It is a relational database management system.
It is free and open source software. It is written in C and C++
hence it is easy to use. It can also be run on cloud computing
platforms. The data in My SQL is stored in tables and it is
used for storing information. It supports data end users.
5.10 Android App Inventor: App InventorforAndroidis an
open-source web application originally provided by Google,
and now maintained by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT). It is an intuitive, visual programming
environment. It allows us to create software applications for
the Android operating system (OS).
Fig-6: Android App
5.11 Google Firebase: Firebase provides a real-time
database and backend as a service. The service provides
application developers an API that allowsapplicationdata to
be synchronized across clients and stored on Firebase's
cloud. The company provides client libraries that enable
integration with Android, iOS, JavaScript, Java, Objective-
C, Swift and Node.js applications.
6. IMPLEMENTATION
The main function of the system proposed is to construct
wireless notice board to display messagessentfromtheuser

through the network. It is a user friendly notice board that
can be used to display the latest announcements with
respect to date and time which can be easily tracked by the
user. The user is the sender who gives the information to be
displayed. The android app is installed in the mobiles of
authorized users. The app is developed using the MIT App
Inventor. The python programming language is used for
dumping the program andforaccessingthedatabaseMy SQL
is used. The app after creating successfully maintains an ID
in Google Firebase wherein the data which are transferred
are stored. For avoiding unauthorized access, security
authentication such as user nameandpasswordare enabled.
In the receiver side, the Raspberry Pi isconnectedtotheLCD
display which is given a 5V DC powerfromthepowersource.
It connects data from the cloud. It receives data from the
cloud by dumping the LINUX program. The interface
between the LCD display and theRaspberryPiisprovided by
a HDMI cable. The data that are displayed in the notice
board are stored on Excel spreadsheet for future reference.
7. ADVANTAGES
This notice board can be accessed from anywhere. It
includes better transmission of data in lessertime withgood
quality. The system is more secured as it involves user
authentication. Here we can send text messages and also
images in the form of Jpg, jpeg, png and pdf files with better
quality. It is also provided with a deleting option. Hence this
system becomes user-friendly.
8. CONCLUSION
The digitalized modern world paves many ways for creating
exciting systems which are very much beneficial for the
mankind. The wireless notice board which is developed as a
user friendly notice board is a much needed one at
institutions and in many areas for displaying their
information from remote areas.
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