EMBEDDED BASED INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

SYNOPSIS

All industrial loads are controlled individually through manual operation. As a
consequence there is a probable chance of wastage of power through manual mishandling
and also industrial accidents.
Our project “EMBEDDED BASED INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION” is to automate the
tripping of loads during over voltage and under voltage conditions, non-critical loads when maximum
demand condition arises. Power factor correction, which plays a vital role in any industry, has also been
automated. Controls of illumination level, water level, and temperature level have been incorporated. In
industries certain equipments are operated only by experienced person to avoid accidents and
mishandling. Bearing this in mind, code lock and programmable load as far as scheduled operation is
concerned, are implemented. Automatic switch off of all loads and arrangements for simultaneous
on/off of lighting loads when a door is opened/closed, in certain areas (especially goodowns) are also
included.
The signifigant feature of our project is a single microcontroller chip,
PIC16F8XX, carries on all the above automations. Peripheral Interface Controller
(PIC) is an output of the “MICROCHIPS”. Flash memory is an outstanding feature of
these controllers, which is not available in other types of controllers. Other features
are brown out reset, I/O port expansion and working temperature compatible to
industrial areas. This project can be implemented using fuzzy logic control also.