Cell Phone Based Multiple Device Controller

Many times when we go out of home in a hurry and forget to' on" or "off" certain appliances
which sometimes creates a problem for us. Like in the morning we have to go to the office and
in a rush, we sometimes forget to "off" the motor or water pump which lead to wastage of water
and electricity or sometimes it happens we forget to "on" the motor which leads to scarcity of
water. Hence, to solve this problem you can use this simple circuit which will "on" and "off" your
electrical appliances just by using phone
1. You can control your appliances remotely from a distance just by using your telephone.
2. In this circuit, we are controlling 6 individual devices.
3. You can also control 9 individual appliances by using a single circuit. In that case you have to
add one more CD4049 IC.
4. The main advantage of this circuit is single telephone at receiver side can be used to control
the device and same can be used as a normal phone according to your requirement.
5. You can power the circuit from voltage range from 5V to 12V.
6. You can connect your AC operating appliances with the help of relay.

DESCRIPTION
This circuit is based on 3 ICs MT8870, 74154, CD4049 with few more commonly used discrete
components. Before understanding the working, let's have a look at the working of individual IC.

1. MT8870- DTMF stands for Dual tone multiple frequencies. MT8870 is basically used in the
telephone industry and various other applications. Whenever you press any button on the
telephone respective tone is generated which is heard as DTMF tone. It is a DTMF to BCD
converter.
2. 74154 - 74154 is a 4 line to 16 line decoder/demultiplexer. A demultiplexer is a logic circuit
that takes one input signal and converts it into multiple output signals. And which output will
become active depends upon the input at the control lines. In general a demultiplexer has one
data input, and data output signals and m control lines with 2m = n. And multiplexer accept
binary coded decimal number as input and gives you a corresponding binary number at the
output.
3. CD4049 - CD4049 is a hex buffer/inverter. It is a monolithic CMOS integrated circuit
constructed on P and N channel enhancement mode transistor. Works on wide voltage range vary
from 3V to 15V. It can drive two TTL load at 5V over full temperature range. Important feature
of CD4049 is it has special input protection which permits input voltages greater than VDD.

Working of circuit
The circuit describe here can be used to "on" and "off" six devices while dialing the number from
1 to 6 from the key pad of telephone. In this circuit DTMF signals from the telephone system is
used as control signals. In this same circuit same telephone can be used for controlling the
appliances and as a normal telephone for talking. So if you want to use your telephone for
controlling the devices than once a call is connected dial number 0 from the keypad. Now, you
can control your devices and if o is not pressed than your telephone will work like normal
telephone.
Now consider a case that call has been connected and you have press 0 then IC1 that is MT8870
decodes this as 1010 binary signals that you can measure on the output pin 11,12,13,14 of IC1.
Now suppose you want to "on" the first device than press 1 from the keypad of telephone. Now it
will be decoded by IC1 as 0001. And the pin 11 of IC2 you will get 1010.This BCD code at the
moment supply to 74154 IC. It is basically a demultiplexer whose corresponding output later
than inverter IC 4049 moves to logic 1 status.And this pulse will on the LED or device connected
through relay connected at the output. In the similar way you can "on" and "off" other devices.
If you want to control up to 9 devices than you have to connect a one more CD4049 IC and
connect the remaining output of IC2 pin no. 7,8,9,10 to input pin of CD4049 in the similar way
as connected in the circuit diagram.

Resistor
Resistor is a passive component used to control current in a circuit. Its resistance is given by the
ratio of voltage applied across its terminals to the current passing through it. Thus a particular
value of resistor, for fixed voltage, limits the current through it. They are omnipresent in
electronic circuits.
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Capacitor

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Capacitor is a passive component used to

store charge. The charge (q) stored in a
capacitor is the product of its capacitance
(C) value and the voltage (V) applied to it.
Capacitors offer infinite reactance to zero
frequency so they are used for blocking DC
components or bypassing the AC signals.
The capacitor undergoes through a recursive
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LED
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are
semiconductor light sources. The light

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