Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System using GSM technology

Project Cost: 9,200

Project Code: 1610

Description of the project:

In today’s world mobile or cell phone plays a very important role in communication. In mobile communication, for transmission and reception of signals, there is a transceiver station known as a cell site. Cell phone towers or mobile towers are installed to increase the network coverage of the GSM mobile network provider. The height of this tower varies from 50 feet to 200 feet. At the base of these cell phone towers, there is a processing unit or electronic circuit which processes the signal. This unit is also called as a “Cell site” or “Base Transmitter Station” or “Base Transceiver Station (BTS)”. We have designed Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System using GSM project to monitor this base station.

The aim of the “Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System” is to design a system that can monitor and control various alarms at the mobile cell sites. The intention of this project is to ensure the safety of this unit which is at the base of the cell site. The main objective is to monitor various threats like fire detection, smoke detection, to check the fuel level and to check if the door is left open. The door check is required since many times the maintenance workers forget to properly close the door of the base station unit. A typical cell site or mobile tower base station consists of various units including power management unit (PMU), BTS unit, battery unit and air-conditioners. These different units of cell site require frequent maintenance. For some type of base stations, it is daily and for some types it is weekly. These maintenance are quite expensive. With the use of “Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System”, we can reduce huge maintenance cost.

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Block Diagram of the project:

You will get a CD with this project containing the following documents:

1. Project Report in pdf format and in doc (word) format
2. Circuit diagram
3. PCB layout
4. Microcontroller program in assembly language
5. Hex file of the microcontroller code
6. Datasheets of all the components / ICs used in the project

Description in detail:

1. GSM Modem: It is used to send SMS to the user
2. Smoke sensor: We have used MQ series gas sensor to detect the smoke caused due to fire.
3. Temperature sensor: LM35 temperature sensor detects overheating situations inside the cellphone tower base station
4. Fuel Level Sensor: A Petrol tank float is used as level sensor to detect the fuel level
5. Door Sensor: IR sensor is used to detect if the base station door is closed or not
6. LCD display: This shows all the informative messages
7. Microcontroller: We have used 8051 series microcontroller
8. DC Motor: This is a output device
9. Buzzer: It is turned on whenever there are undesirable situations inside the cellphone Tower Base Station

Applications, Advantages, and future enhancements of the Project:

1. As the name suggests, this project’s main application is in mobile tower base stations.
2. The main advantage of “Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System using GSM technology” is that with the help of GSM technology, the data of the Cell phone tower base station can be sent to a longer distance through SMS.
3. Future Development for the project is that we can add more sensors to this system.

Video of the project: Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System using GSM technology

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