Do you think that you can control your home and office electrical appliances using your cell

phone? Yes.! you can... Here is a simple home controls home automation electronic mini project circuit diagram for engineering students, without using microcontroller, to control any electrical appliances using mobile phone. This circuit makes use of DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) technique. We have already posted What is DTMF? and DTMF decoder circuit using M8870 decoder IC. This home appliances control or home automation project also uses the same DTMF decoder circuit section with little modifications to control home and office electrical appliances. Just connect your cell phone headset (headphone) jack to the mobile phone and then mobile control electrical appliances and electrical equipment via DTMF key pad of your cell phone. Here we are controlling an electrical bulb using this circuit project but you can extend this circuit to control many electrical devices with some modifications using 4x16 decoder IC.

Circuit diagram of Mobile controlled hoe appliances

Components required for Home automation

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Regulated power supply DTMF decoder IC (M-8870) Resistors (100; 100k; 70k; 390k) Capacitors (0.1Fx 2) Crystal oscillator (3.579545MHz) IC 7474 D flip flop BC547 Transistor 6V relay

Working of this Home automation electronic project

We already familiar with What is DTMF? and DTMF decoder with M8870 IC. Our project uses M-8870 DTMF decoder IC which decodes tone generated by the keypad of cell phone.

When you press any keys in your mobile Phone while call in progress, the other person will hear some tones with respect to keys pressed. These tones are based on the DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) technology. Data transmitted in terms of pair of tones. The receiver detects the valid frequency pair and gives the appropriate BCD code as the output of the DTMF decoder IC. DTMF signal can be tapped directly from the microphone pin of cell phone device. See the figure below, Cut the microphone wire and you will be able to see 4 wires. Among these wires you need only 2 wires Ground and Right as shown in figure.

Select the right wire and connect it as the DTMF input to the decoder circuit. Ground should be connected to common ground of our circuit. The signals from the microphone wire are processed by the DTMF decoder IC which generates the equivalent binary sequence as a parallel output as Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4.

Table showing DTMF Low and High frequency tones and decoded output
Button 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 * # Low DTMF frequency (Hz) 697 697 697 770 770 770 852 852 852 941 941 941 High DTMF frequency (Hz) 1209 1336 1477 1209 1336 1477 1209 1336 1477 1336 1209 1477 Binary coded output Q1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 Q2 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 Q3 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 Q4 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

The output Q4 from the DTMF decoder IC is fed to the clock input of IC 7474 d flip flop which acts as a buffer to the output from M8870 DTMF decoder IC. IC7474 is configured as Toggling mode that is if it gets a clock pulse the output of this IC (Pin 5) sets to high and further clock pulse reset back the IC. (The outputs toggle whenever a key is pressed). When we press and release any of the keys among 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and * keys, the DTMF decoder IC generates a high pulse which acts as a clock to our flip flop and sets the output flip lop to high. The output of flip flop is connected to the relay driver circuit via 100 resistor; this output energizes the relay coil through BC547 transistor and turns ON the bulb that connected at the normally open terminal of relay circuit. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ****