Door Entry Detection for MCU Based Designs


Posted on Feb 6, 2014

This article discuss how you can detect the entry of a person in a room and get this signal inside your MCU. This is NOT a complete project but just an idea that can be implemented in many different projects. The technique is to use use an IR transmitter and a receiver pair. One side of door will have an IR Transmitter and the other side of door w


Door Entry Detection for MCU Based Designs
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ill have an IR Receiver. The transmitter (Tx in short) will continuously send IR beam to the receiver, as long as the receiver(Rx in short) will receive this beam it will give a voltage output in range of 2. 5v to 3. 0 volts. But as this beam is obstructed, for example by someone entering the room, the receivers output will tend towards 4. 5 The IR Transmitter can be made on a small PCB as shown below. It has four mounting holes to fix it in the wall near the door. Please use 1 Watt resistor for R2 and R3 (22ohms). As you can see the optimal distance between the transmitter and receiver is 2. 0ft. to 3. 5ft. While the Rx/Tx should be mounted at the height of 3. 5ft. from the ground. Many people would ask why I have used photo transistors and not modulated IR receivers like TSOP1738 etc. The reason is that the TSOP series sensors were designed for data transfer, mainly from hand held remote control to devices like TV`s or DVD players. So following points were kept in mind while designing TSOP sensors. Maximum range (So that remote could be easily operated in big rooms), since these have long range you cannot assume that only the rays that are directly incident on the Rx are the only rays reaching it, rays bounced from walls also reach the sensor. So actually their are more than one path from the Tx to Rx. This makes door entry detection impossible because if the person entering the room cuts one path, the ray would reach...




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