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Abstract—This paper discusses a method for implementing For advertising, the brightness of the LEDs and the way it is
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) control of a displayed or appears, attracts motorists and pedestrians when
Light Emitting Diode (LED) Messaging Display for advertising they are crossing the road or stopping at the traffic lights.
purposes. The existing LED display will be used and integrated Where big screen LED Televisions might capture the views of
with the custom-built GSM controller board, inclusive of
the people, simple alphabetical electronic moving display has
microcontroller for control and data transmission to the GSM
modem just enough attraction to relay information to the viewers.
Outdoor LEDs serves the purpose of public and indoor LEDs
Keywords-component; Wireless Communication, GSM are placed inside buildings.
Communication, LED electronic display,
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1)
Light Emitting Diodes (LED) Dot-Matrix digital display has
made its way to the digital world, enhancing advertising,
traffic lights and other display systems. Due to its clear and
bright lights emitted from the LED’s and the way it can be
displayed, such as rolling left, right or other fancy
appearances, it has and is gaining popularity around the world.
Even shopkeepers are using LED displays to attract customers
to have a look at their bargains. It is commercially available in
different sizes, colors, features and lines. Some can even
display graphics alongside alphanumeric.
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microcontroller.
Fig. 4. The GSM modem (right) and the microcontroller board (left) [3].
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The information from the modem is filtered, so as to only electronic display. However, this paper presents the concept
allow the SMS message to be displayed. Prior to this, the and processes involved in the implementation of the project. It
identification of the sender has to be monitored, only allowing shows the overall block diagram of the merged GSM and LED
the known number or administrator to access the system. This display system and how it is realized in hardware, i.e. physical
is called Caller Line Identification Presentation (CLIP) and it connections During assembly, this paper also presented the
serves as a security measure. If any unknown or unauthorized location of the microcontroller in the merged system. It also
number accesses the system, the controller will prevent the discusses briefly the overall algorithm of the controller and the
message from being displayed. The flowchart is shown in Caller Line Identification Presentation (CLIP) security system.
The LED display used was the Multimedia LED, which has a
Figure 6.
limit of 200 characters per display.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Gratitude is expressed for Universiti Teknikal Malaysia
Melaka (UTeM), particularly the Deputy Vice Chancellor
(Research, Development and Commercialization) and Centre
for Research and Innovation Management, for providing the
platform in terms of facilities and equipments and short-term
research grant dedicated to this project. Thanks to the
university for allowing participation in exhibition competitions,
and resulted in numerous medals, national and international.
Thanks to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering for allowing
success to this project. Thanks also to the researchers and
industrial collaborators, Melaka ICT Holdings (MICTH) who
spend their valuable resources, time and money, in completing
this project.
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