1.

INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
This project will present the design, construction, development, control and
evaluation of an automatic switching speed electric fan. This further step of an
intelligent electric fans than before that using intelligent technology such sensing
the sound of clapping and functioning by analog circuit relay from the lowest to the
highest speed clapping by clapping. The microcontroller base automatic fan system
presented in this project is required to fulfill the requirement of technologies
tomorrow will be more advanced than today. The electric fan automatically
switches the speed according to the environment temperature changes. This electric
fan system contains combination of sensor, controller, driver and motor with
integration of embedded controlled programming which means in this case using
MC68HC11A1 as the main controller. This project also presents the expected
performance of the automatic fan system, construction of hardware and software
development to gather the performance data. Finally, this system performance will
be
evaluated by comparing performance data to the theoretical.

1.2 Problem statement

Most human feels the inconvenient about changing the fan speed level
manually when the room temperature changes. So, the automatic fan system that
automatically changes the speed level according to temperature changes is
recommended to be built for solving this problem.

1.3 Significant of study

Sometimes electric fan usage is wasting power because of human attitude.
Human also mostly demands something that easily to be used without wasting
energy. To minimize or reduce the power usage, this project developed an automatic
fan system where speed is controlled by the room temperature.

1.4 Objective
The objectives of this project are: i.
ii.
iii.

Enable the electric fan to automatically change the speed level according to
temperature changes.
Develop an automatic fan system that can change the speed level due
to the environment temperature changes.
Develop an automatic fan system that can preview the status of the
temperature and the speed level by using Liquid Crystal Display
(LCD).

1.5 Project scope

The system is built using:
i.
ii.
iii.

MC68HC11 as the main controller.

The temperature sensor as the input for the microcontroller.
The DC motor as the output for the system.

2. METHODOLOGY
2.1 Flow Chart
START

Literature Review

NO

Software
Development

Hardware Construct

Testing OK?

Testing OK?

NO

YES

YES
Integrating Hardware with
Software

IntegrationOK?

NO

YES
Result
Data Analysis

Thesis
EEND

Figure 2.1 The Work Flow of Project

2.2 Block diagram

Display

Sensor

Controller

Motor

Figure 2.2 Block Diagram of Simple System Design for an Automatic Fan
System

The sensor basically will be the input that will be triggered the
controller to
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control the motor by certain condition or programming. The controller is

set to
decide how the output will be produced from the motor and will be
displayed at the
display part.
As the system requires the use of microcontroller, the design consists
of two
parts, hardware and software. Hardware is constructed and integrated
module by
module, hardware to software for easy troubleshooting and testing.

2.3 Gantt chart

December 2015 April 2016 activities schedule

Activity
Weeks
Student
supervisor
first
meeting
Studentsupervisor
regular
meeting
Proposal
preparation/
submission

December

January

February

March

2015

2016

2016

2016

10

11

12

13

14

15

Proposal
evaluation
(by panel)
Proposal
correction
Project
developme
nt
Progress
report
writing
Progress
Report and
Final
Proposal
submission
(to panels)
Proposal
and
progress
presentatio
n
Progress
Report,
Final
Proposal
and logbook
submission
(to
supervisor)

EXPECTED RESULT
The expected result of this project are, this project will be able to produce an
electrical fan that will automatically change the speed level according to temperature
changes. Besides, also will be able to produce an automatic fan system that can
display the status of the temperature and the speed level by using Liquid Crystal
Display LCD.

REFERENCES
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[1]

M. A. Mazidi, The 8051 Microcontroller Embedded Systems, Pearson Education

Asia, India, 2nd edition, 2008.

[2]

Kenneth J. Ayala, The 8051 micro-controller Architecture, programming &

applications, Penram International, India, 1996.

[3]

Raj Kamal, Embedded System- Architecture, Programming and Design, Tata

McGraw Hill Publisher, 2nd edition, 2008.

[4]

Myke Predco, Programming and customizing

MC68HC11 microcontroller, Tata McGraw Hill Publiser.

[5]

http://www.howstuffworks.com

[6]

http://www.wikipedia.org

[7]

http://www.atmel.com

[8]

http://www.simcom.com

[9]

http://turbo51.com/documentation/8051-

microcontroller
[10] http://www.datasheetcatalog.com