International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR)

ISSN: 2321-0869, Volume-3, Issue-4, April 2015

Electronic Data Logger and Telemetry

Naveen Achyuta, Tushar Nambisan, Nikhil Chavan, Sunit Patil
parameters at different work stress put forth on it has been
Abstract The project concerns about setting up of an accomplished without human intervention as the conditions
intelligent data extraction and data analysis system which can are not permissible for any human activity to co-exist with the
be implemented in real time applications to monitor and study working condition. Thus depicting the actual working
the behavioural aspect of the subject at any instant of time and
background has been well sought and established by this
can be brought one step ahead with installation of a facility that
would alarm the concerned authority when the subject
project. Also further ups, we are working on a system that
concerned breaches a predefined limit that has been set by the alerts the concerned authorities using the modules for data
programmer. For fruitful data acquisition and warehousing we communication when the expected value breaches the
are using an RC NITRO car that would depict the environment predetermined level of caution, and create immediate
of the experimental setup being installed on a real life alertness among the mitigation forces which is very much
automobile. Constant examining of important parameters viz., needed during bio-hazardous materials exposure to man
temperature, pressure, G-Force and axial acceleration has been which in turn sets up an intelligent closed loop system that
retrieved using MCU unit and wireless counterparts. At the replaces for all those lacksity due to human nature and
backend these data are accumulated by a processor development
everything remains under computer domain which calls for
board into an SD card that will also simultaneously plot the
relevant data accumulated with it using a graphics tool.
acute flawlessness and untiring workforce at low expense at
users end.
Index Terms Data acquisition, RC nitro engine car,
accelerometer, gyroscope, temperature sensor, Arduino Mega, II. RESOURCES USED
Raspberry Pi, Zigbee, Data analysis. Hardware components used in this project are as following:

1. Arduino MEGA :
I. INTRODUCTION
Arduino is an open source software development and robotics
This project aims for setting up of an environment that does platform. Here, embodies the AtMega 2560 into its core. It
data acquisition of a subject under observation for studying has 256KB flash.10 bit ADC resolution channels.I2C
the complete versatility of the same. With this approach the protocol adaptable, SPI programmability is also featured by
subject is made to perform in all the environmental conditions this board. Four UART(Hardware) ports supported by the
pushing the limits from very least activeness to extreme same MCU is also available. Can support data rate from 2400
pressure on the engine thus studying the real-time dynamics of to 115200 bauds.
the engine so as to keep a track of the engines behaviour also
calls for preparedness for any uncertainties that needs to be
tackled if anything goes in haywire manner. Hence we are
employing sensors that tentatively read the data viz.,
temperature, pressure, G-force, axial acceleration etc and
gives this to a local MCU. This MCU acts as a client for the
remote server that lies in the users custody. The MCU
wirelessly sends the data which is timely obtained by the
server. The server in turn is a microprocessor based platform
that logs the data in a memory. Also this data can be plotted
and different characteristics can be studied as per users

discretion. By setting up of an intelligent data warehousing

system like this, the aim of studying any real life situation like
studying the thermodynamics of a gas turbine and its
Figure 1. Arduino Microcontroller Board
Manuscript received April 16, 2015.
Naveen Achyuta,Department of Electronics and Telecommunication,
SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, 2. ZIGBEE PRO SERIES 2B.
India, +91-9920593209.
Tushar Nambisan, Department: Electronics and Telecommunication,
SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra,
This module gives a range on 2miles.
India, +91-9029380882. Radiated antenna power of 63mW(+18dB).
Nikhil Chavan, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, With standard data rate of 250Kbps. It uses FHSS technique
SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, for avoid the collision as there would be lot more devices
India, +91-9004839800.
using the same frequency band of 2.4GHz. It uses IEEE
Suneet Patil, Department: Electronics and Telecommunication, SIES
Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 802.15.4 protocol for establishing low power PANs.
+91-9768238668.

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These are USB to FTDI convertor boards with Headers for

ZigBees basement. It also has pins fabricated for Breadboard
mounting purposes.

5. Raspberry PI

RaspberryPi is based on the Broadcom BCM2835 system on

a chip (SoC), which include
an ARM1176JZFS 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV
GPU, and was originally shipped with 256 megabytes
of RAM, later upgraded (models B and B+) to 512 MB. The
system has Secure Digital(SD) (models A and B) or MicroSD
(models A+ and B+) sockets for boot media and persistent
storage. The SoC used in the first generation Raspberry Pi is
somewhat equivalent to the chip used in older
smartphones (such as iPhone / 3G / 3GS). The Raspberry Pi
is based on the Broadcom BCM2835 system on a
chip (SoC), which includes an 700
MHz ARM1176JZF-S processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and
Figure 2. Xbee module
RAM. It has a Level 1 cache of 16 KB and a Level 2 cache of
128 KB. The Level 2 cache is used primarily by the GPU. The
SoC is stacked underneath the RAM chip, so only its edge is
3. MPU6050 :
visible.
The InvenSense MPU-6050 sensor contains a MEMS
accelerometer and a MEMS gyro in a single chip. It is very
accurate, as it contains 16-bits analog to digital conversion
hardware for each channel. Therefor it captures the x, y, and z
channel at the same time. The sensor uses the I2C-bus to
interface with the Arduino.

MEMS Accelerometer range: 2g, 4g, 8g, and 16g

MEMS Gyroscope range: 250, 500, 1000, and
2000/sec

Figure 4. Raspberry pi

6. A1301 Hall effect sensor:

The A1301 is continuous-time, ratiometric, linear Hall-effect

sensor IC. They are optimized to accurately provide a voltage
output that is proportional to an applied magnetic field. This
device has a quiescent output voltage that is 50% of the
supply voltage. Output sensitivity option is provided: 2.5
mV/G typical for the A1301. The Hall-effect integrated
Figure 3. MPU6050 circuit included in each device includes a Hall circuit, a linear
amplifier, and a CMOS Class A output structure. Integrating
the Hall circuit and the amplifier on a single chip minimizes
4. USB Adapter for ZigBee many of the problems normally associated with low voltage
level analog signals.

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These modules act as point to pint communication agents and
transfer the data from slave arduino to the master
Microprocessor development board Raspberry Pi lying with
the user. The Raspberry Pi obtains the data from the zigbee
module attached to it and then uses any Graphical tool to plot
the data in a way easier to interpret and analyze.

Figure 5. Hall Effect Sensor

7. BMP085 barometric pressure and temperature sensor:

Operational specs:
Vin: 3 to 5VDC.
Logic: 3 to 5V compliant. IV. SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION
Pressure sensing range: 300-1100 hPa (9000m to
-500m above sea level) Since the Aim is to acquire data about temperature, pressure,
Up to 0.03hPa / 0.25m resolution G-Force and acceleration. The GY-521(MPU-6050) is
connected to arduino via I2C bus lines. The temperature and
-40 to +85C operational range,
pressure sensors are also connected in the same method. We
+-2C temperature accuracy are using library for extraction of data from the above said
This is a sensor by BOSCH. modules. The data from MPU6050 consists of sequential data
It is an ultra low power device. from the accelerometer as well as the gyroscope.
It consumes 5uA at 1 sample/second. Accelerometers are known for depicting slow variations in
data i.e, it provides sluggish response. Gyroscopes are known
for reflecting sudden changes in data.
Hence we are using an algorithm that will merge the data from
both the modules and give final simple angle information that
can be interpreted. This algorithm is called the Kalman Filter
algorithm.
Also by reading the raw values from the buffer of the same
module will give the raw G-Force value which is normalized
by dividing with sensitivity of the module to give Raw G-
values in all the three axial directions. The temperature sensor
provides the data in the form of string through I2C bus to the
arduino which is timely read by using the concerned library
functions for interrupt driven data extractions. The accessed
data is now formatted to be able to send via wireless means to
the mother processing unit. The processed data is sent with
identifiers to distinguish the data elements in a stream flow of
Figure 6. BMP085 data loaded timely to the remote CPU. The RC nitro car is
particularly used for this project as it can be remotely
controlled and depicts the real time use of the same project
III. HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION with automobiles, as its generated heat quotient and jerks in
the motion of the car as well as forward acceleration, the net
pressure as well as the orientation of the car varies timely
The RC Nitro car is an IC Engine car that uses NitroMethane which was very much needed for distinguished data
as the fuel for combustion. The Sensors BMP-085, interpretation, plotting and simulations sake as well adds to
MPU6050, A1301 Hall effect sensors are mounted on the the fruitfulness of the project in the desired manner.
cars engine cover at different locations. The Arduino Mega is The mother processor at the users end is constantly accessing
used as a master to supervise and co-ordinate the activities. the data from the wireless modems and logging it in the SD
The Arduino is acquitting the data from these sensors and is card. This data is then plotted using visualization tools to see
sending in the form of a string to the Zigbee modules serially. varying nature of the data at the remote end and study the
parameters of the target subject.

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V. CONCLUSION

We have implemented a system that works as a real time data

acquisition device setup such that the Microcontroller as well
as the microprocessor work in tandem in a master-slave
configuration so as to sense the data from the sensors mounted
on the nitro car and then process these data to a substantial
level, then making it fit for serial transmission through the
wireless support by zigbees and thus leading to a synchronous
data transferring and monitoring system that can be
tentatively viewed through a graphical plotter application in
the Raspberry Pis desktop window and thus can study
different parameters pertaining to the cars engine and its
external periphery.

VI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We acknowledge Dr. Atul Kemkar(HOD) under department

of electronics and telecommunication and our project guide
Mrs. Shyamala Mathi, for their constant guidance and support
that led us to work efficiently and complete this project in
stipulated time without much hassle.

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Naveen Achyuta, Student at SIES Graduate School of Tech., Mumbai.

Tushar Nambisan, Student at SIES Graduate School of Tech., Mumbai,
Nikhil Chavan, Student at SIES Graduate School of Tech., Mumbai,.
Suneet Patil, Student at SIES Graduate School of Tech., Mumbai.

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