2014 International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies [ICCPCT]
An Embedded Web server based Remote Motor
Control system using Virtual Panel
Shalini.N
PG-Scholar,
Embedded System Technologies,
Krishnasamy College of Engineering and Technology,
Tamilnadu, India.
shalinineela@gmail.com
Abstract In modern industrial field, the requirement for
monitoring and controlling system is one of the most important
criteria for minimizing the power consumption. In this paper, an
effort is made to monitor and control the speed of the motor
through TCP/IP connection using virtual instrumentation,
LabVIEW. A design of PIC microcontroller along with Ethernet
module is presented. Parameters such as Temperature, voltage,
current can be monitored and read out with the help of internal
ADC. A web server can be embedded into any appliance and
connected to the Internet so the appliance can be monitored and
controlled from remote places through the browser in a desktop. By
typing the IP address on the web browser the user get a web page
on the screen; this page contains all the information about the
status of the devices. By providing password, we can log on to the
system and proceed the monitoring and controlling process. With
the help of LabVIEW software the system provides high accuracy
and flexibility.
Keywords Embedded web server, Ethernet, microcontroller,
LabVIEW, TCP/IP protocol.
I. INTRODUCTION
The embedded web server technology is combination of
embedded device and internet technology, which provides a
flexible remote device monitoring based on internet browser.
The implementation methods of core protocols in protocol
stack such as 802.3, ARP, IP, TCP and HTTP were analyzed
in detail [1]. Through introducing internet in to control
network, it is possible to achieve remote sensing monitoring
and controlling for equipments [2].An embedded web server is
a hardware component of a system that implements the HTTP
protocol interfaced with an application. It can be used to
provide a application or to design application for the
distribution and acquisition of information to be displayed in
regular interface, it has an advantage of easily being interfaced
with a Network through Ethernet [3]. An Embedded web
server is a microcontroller that contains an internet software
suite as well as application Code for monitoring and
controlling systems.Embedded web server for embedded
devices provide a network interfaces to realize the remote
management and control, which is an important technology of
the networked embedded equipment [4]. The purpose of this
project is to build a remote control system through a webpage
which is controlled through local area network/internet by
using an embedded TCP/IP ENC28J60 module [5] .A web
base control and monitoring system can make us control a
system without distance. So developing a cost effective,
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Siva Sakthi.S
Associate Professor,
Dept. of EEE,
Krishnasamy College of Engineering and Technology,
Tamilnadu, India.
sivasakthi_gayu@yahoo.co.in
programmable and high efficiency controller webpage is
necessary for the world competition [6]. With the increasing
scale of control systems in industrial field, an embedded web
server as a gateway to connect serial devices and networks to
achieve the minimum cost can be used as web-based remote
control.The client through the network to send control
commands to the motor, while the motor is running the state
through the network back to the client [7]. LabVIEW front
panel is designed for user interface to display waveforms of
measured physical quantities from serial port, connected to
embedded board and display waveform on waveform chart.
The software designed in LABVIEW offers high flexibility for
dynamic user requirements and variety of data to be acquired
and also user can monitor and control number of processes
from remote location or choose any function to handle process
parameters to automate system and avoid human interventions
[8].
The paper is organized as follows: in Section II we will
introduce the details of hardware implementation. Section III
will describe the embedded web server system architecture. In
section IV will describe the demonstration and software
implementation of system. Section V presents the results and
discussion.VI will describe the conclusion and future work.
II.HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION
A.PIC 18F458Microcontroller
In our proposed work, we use PIC 18F458 Micro
controller, it has the special feature of inbuilt CAN Module.
PIC18f458 is 28/40-Pin High performance, Enhanced Flash
Microcontrollers. It has High performance RISC CPU. It has
Advanced Analog Features like 10-bit, up to 8-channel
Analog-to-Digital Converter module (A/D).It has Special
Microcontroller Features like Power-on Reset (POR), Power-
up Timer (PWRT) and Oscillator Start-up Timer (OST)
Watchdog Timer (WDT) with its own on-chip RCoscillator.
It has FlashTechnology with Low-power, high-speed
Enhanced Flash technology, fully static design and Wide
operating voltage range (2.0V to 5.5V).
B.Ethernet Controller (ENC28J60)
Ethernet controller is a standalone Ethernet controller
with an industry standard peripheral interface (SPI). It is
designed to serve as Ethernet network interface for any
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microcontroller equipped with SPI.It has integrated MAC Current Sensor

and 10BASE-T PHY. It also support unicast, multicast and The Winson WCS2720 provides economical and precise
broadcast address. It meets all the specifications for IEEE solution for both DC and AC current sensing in industrial,
802.3.It also provides an internal DMA module for fast data commercial and communications systems. It has Min.
throughput and hardware assisted IP checksum calculations. sensing current 0~20A at 5V voltage supply, Sensitivity 64
It supports full duplex and half duplex modes. It has mV/A, and Wide operating voltage range 3.0~12 V.
programmable automatic re-transmit on collision. It has SPI Voltage Sensor
interface speeds up to 10 Mb/s. A Voltage Sensor (PC-3160) is a device that measures the
voltage dispersed through the circuit depends upon whether
the current is AC or DC. It has maximum voltage: 27 V,
DRIVER and Resolution up to 10mV. The measurement capabilities of
UNIT DC different voltage sensors differ widely due to many ranges of
MOTOR
their usage from computer circuitry to large transformer
circuits.
Speed Sensor
A sensor device TBT1C is used for reading the speed of a
5V POWER motor rotation. Speed sensors are machines used to detect
SUPPLY A SIGNAL
D CONDITIONING the speed of an object, usually a transport vehicle. When
C referring to speed sensors in industry, it is usually the rotary
LCD PIC18F458 speed which is being measured. It has Operating temperature
DISPLAY ranges between -25~+100 and the Supply voltage range
TEMPERATURE between 12VDC~30VDC and also its Frequency range
VOLTAGE
CURRENT
between 1.83Hz~2500Hz.
SPEED (SENSOR)
D.DC Motor
A DC motor is designed to run on DC electric power,
which will operate in the ratings of 12Vdc and supports
0.6A. DC motors have been popular in the industry control
area for a long time, because they have many good
PC WITH ETHERNET
characteristics, for example: high starting torque
LabVIEW CONTROLLER characteristics, high response performance, easier to be
(ENC28J60) linear control etc.

III. EMBEDDED WEB SERVER ARCHITECTURE

Fig 1 Basic block diagram
C.Sensor
Temperature Sensor
LM35 is the temperature sensor from National
Semiconductor. This sensor output voltage is linearly
proportional to the Celsius. The LM35 does not require any
external calibration or trimming to provide typical accuracies
of 1 4C at room temperature and 3 4C over a full 55
to +150C temperature range.
Embedded Web server (EWS) refers to the Web server
will be introduced to the field test and control equipment in
hardware platform and software system, with the support of
the traditional test and control equipment for a change in the
TCP/IP for the bottom communication protocol. The Fig 2
shows the concept of embedded web server. Web technology
as the core based on the Internet network testing and control
equipment Embedded Web server to simplify the traditional
server system structure, in equipment and to realize
information transmission and the function of the network
interface.
Embedded Web server software system usually include
center processing module, HTTP engine, file system,
configuration module, security module, application program
interface. The server is the core of the central processing
module, it is the control and the scheduling, HTTP engine
realize the HTTP protocol, the file system access to
resources, configuration module and security module
implements the server configuration and security
mechanism, application server interface implementation and
application interaction. The most common use of web

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servers is to host websites, but there are other
o uses such as
gaming, data storage or running enterprise applications.
EMBEDDED WE
EB SERVER
INDUSTRY HTTP CGI
WEB PROGRAM
SERVER
OPERATINNG
SYSTEM AND
A
HARDWA ARE
PLATFOR
RM
INTERN
NET
CLIENT
CLIENT
CLIENT
Fig 2 Embedded web server architeecture
A. Client/Server Approach
The client/server paradigm requires soome computers to
dedicate to be serving other computers. A server application
waits for a client application to initiate conntact. A server is a
system which hosts websites and providess services for any
requesting clients. A server application waitsw for a client
application to initiate contact.The embeddded web server,
responding to the ping command made by thhe client. The user
has to enter128.213.1.1 IP to access thee server. If the IP
address entered is correct and matches to thhat of the server, a
request is sent to the server and a TCP P/IP connection is
established and finally server starts sendingg the web pages to
the client. A Client can access the industrys web server
through internet. The client server model is shown in Fig 3.
B. TCP/IP Protocol
The Internet protocol suite is the set of
o communications
protocols that implement the protocol staack on which the
Internet and most commercial networks runn. It has also been
referred to as the TCP/IP protocol suite, whhich is named after
two of the most important protocols in it: the Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Prrotocol (IP), which
were also the first two networking protocolss defined.
The Internet Protocol suite like many protocol
p suites can
be viewed as a set of layers. Each layeer solves a set of
problems involving the transmission of datta, and provides a
well-defined service to the upper layer prrotocols based on
using services from some lower layers. Upper layers are
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logically closer to the user annd deal with more abstract data,
relying on lower layer protoccols to translate forms that can
eventually be physically trannsmitted. The TCP/IP reference
model consists of four layers.
The TCP/IP flow uses appplication layer (HTTP) then the
data will send to the transpoort layer (TCP) and go to the
network (IP) and lastly go to the
t data link.
Fig 3 Cliennt Server Model
C. HTTP Protocol
The protocol used for thhe communication between web
server and web browser is Hyyper Text Transfer Protocol. Port
numbers are the mechanism for identifying particular client
and server applications .Servvers select a port to wait for a
connection. Most services haave well known port numbers.
For example, HTTP uses port 80. When a web browser
fies port 80 when contacting the
requests a web page it specifi
server. Clients usually have ephemeral port numbers since
they exist only as long as the session lasts. HTML pages are
used for data communicatioon between the client and the
server.
1) When there is a connecttion request from a client, Web
server is responsible for receiving the request saving related
information.
2) After receiving the connnection request, Server analyzes
the request, calls analysis moodule, and works out solutions,
URL target, and information of the list. At the same time, it
processes the request accordinngly.
3) After the correspondingg treatment is finished, the Web
server sends responses to thee client browser and then closes
the TCP connection with thhe client. For different request
methods, the embedded Web W server makes different
responses. If the request method is HEAD, the response
header will be sent to the broowser; If the request method is
GET, in addition to sending thet response header, it will also
read out from the server thee URL target file of the client
request and send it to the client browser; If the request
method is POST, the informaation of the list will be sent to
corresponding CGI program, and a then take the information as
a CGI parameter to execute CGI
C program. Finally, the results
will be sent to client browser.
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GET/page.htmlHTTP/1.1
Host Somesite.com
useragent: Mozilla/5.09
SERVER
CLIENT
HTTP/1.1200OK
<html><title>my
page</title>
Fig 4 HTTP Protocol
E.HTML Pages
In the embedded web server, web pages
p are selected
as the media of interaction. HTML is used in designing these
web pages. The html pages are saved on thee board. The status
of the motor is shown on the web page. We can view the
status of motor as shown and change the staatus by clicking on
it and update the system. Hence, results shhow that the client
can access the resources from any remote place via its own
local browser.
Fig 5 HTML Pages
F.Design of CGI
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) iss the abbreviation
of, it is the Web server hosting with external expansion
application interaction of a standard Innterface. Its main
function is in Web environment, from the t client transfer
some information to the Web server, the Web
W server receives
the information into the environment variiable, and then to
start specified CGI scripts to accomplish a specific work, a
CGI script from environment variables in getg information to
run, finally in HTML output format annd implementation
results returned to the browser. Because the customer can
send different parameters to the CGI scripts, so CGI
technology makes between the browser annd the web server
interactive The expansion of the CGI is thhat development in
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config.C for the expansion of function increase a command
yards flag, and the processinng of the designated it response
function. And then in thee cgihead.c to complete the
processing of the response funnction of the code can. Through
the Web server realize setting embedded system IP address to
illustrate the expansion of thhe CGI method and process of
development.
IV. SOFTWARE DESIGN
E IMPLEMENTATION
Remote control system is realized using LabVIEW (short
for Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering
Workbench) is a platform andd development environment for
a visual programming languaage from National Instruments.
LabVIEW is commonly used for data acquisition, instrument
mation on a variety of platforms
control, and Industrial autom
including Microsoft Window ws, various flavours of UNIX,
Linux, and Mac OS. The mainn idea behind the remote control
system is to access and conttrol the speed of motor from a
distant place using suitable communication method. The
structure of communication through
t web interface is shown
in fig 6.
LABVIEW LabVIEW WEB
APPLICATION SERVICES
WEB
INTERFACE
Fig 6 Communicatioon through web interface
The web server circuit is connnected to the internet.The user
at the other end having a Graphical
G User Interface (GUI)
control the motor speed by changing different parameters
allowed by the virtual lab architect. The server will take care
of the data traffic and the connection to the clients. The
remote clients access the system connected to the internet
through a web browser.
A. Remote Panels
This is the simplest methhod of interfacing a LabVIEW
application with the World Wide
W Web. In this method, panel
images of the application can be constantly broadcast to users
through the web at relativeely short time intervals. This
method is simple since the fuull VI (Virtual Instrument) front
panels are broadcasted, configguration of the LabVIEW built-
in Web Server is very simple and straightforward.
B. Web Services
It enables the invocation of
o a method on a remote target
using standard Web-based prootocols. A client sends a request
to a remote server, which prrocesses the request and replies
with a response, which is theen interpreted and displayed by
the client application. This communication
c method is used
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for all the internet activities such as browsing the Web,
checking e-mails, and even reading this article online. Web
services can act as a web application programming interface
(API) to any type of software, whether that software is
controlling complex instrumentation or simply a database
store. To use a web service, a client sends a request to the
remote system hosting the service, which then processes the
request and sends back a response.
C. Front Panel
LabVIEW front panel is designed for user interface to
display waveforms of measured physical quantities, control
number of byte counts, setting baud rate, selection of
communication port number i.e. VISA resources name, and
error control techniques etc. It contains a knob for selecting
the number of measurements per average, a control for
selecting the measurement type, a digital indicator to display
the output value, and a stop button. An elaborate front panel
can be created without much effort to serve as the user
interface for an application.
Fig 7 Front Panel for graphical programming in LabVIEW for Motor
control system.
D. Block Diagram Panel
The block diagram or source code window holds the
graphical source code of LabVIEW VIs. We can construct the
block diagram by writing together objects that perform
specific functions. When we place a control or indicator on the
front panel, Lab VIEW automatically creates a corresponding
terminal on the block diagram. By default, we cannot delete a
block diagram terminal that belongs to a control or indicator.
LabVIEW software is simple and easy to use, when you
need to implement measurement and control, adding a data
acquisition card you can achieve the following functions,
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including collect the data of the controlled object, dynamic
display and real-time control. In control system the computer
compares the signal coming from the sensor with the reference
value which is called as set point here. According to the set
point the controller makes a decision and sends a control
signal to hardware equipment.
V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
An embedded web server based remote control system
has been designed which can be used for industrial
applications.The general hardware structure of the remote
control system based on PIC microcontroller. Sensor inputs
are connected through signal conditioning circuits to PIC
Controller. It processes the signals and then parameter
values such as voltage, current, temperature, speed of the
motor are measured. Status of the working devices or
appliances is decided based on the measured value. So, it is
necessary to measure the parameters and control if it exceeds
some certain limit to avoid any changes in the systems.
Serial communication is done between processor and
Ethernet controller.This system adopts Browser/Server mode
and control the remote systems. By using PC with
LAbVIEW act as a web server it is connected to the internet
and the whole device is connected to remote PC through
internet. User can monitor and control number of processes
from remote location or choose any function to handle
process parameters to automate system and avoid human
interventions. The software designed in LAbVIEW offers
high flexibility for dynamic user requirements and variety of
data to be acquired.
We have introduced the general design concept of the
embedded web server and the policy of TCP/IP reduction,
special the reduction of TCP, whose goal is to allow easy
access to and exploitation of remote equipment. This web
server gives the common devices an Internet interface and
gains a good performance.So it is find that virtual
instruments have the good flexibility and powerful functions
in the application of the measurement system, which means
it is a good choice in the design of industrial control system
with high measuring precision, easily manipulation, high
accuracy, better stability etc.This system is very suitable for
acquiring data or signals form a large scale industry field.
VI. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK
In this paper, we have demonstrated system design and
implementation of embedded web server using remote
control system is well suited for Industrial automation
through internet is a good solution, which is faster and
accurate. So that, it is possible to access that web page
through internet and can able monitor and control the speed
of the motor. The system has been implemented, tested and
we have achieved accurate and reliable transmission of data
to the IP address and representation of waveform in
LabVIEW.In the future, we can upgrade this system to its
portable or handy form of system by replacing the PC to a
PIC based mobile computers so that approach to the
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parameters to be measured become easier and can perform

remote measurements and monitoring.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The authors thank the Management and Principal, of

Krishnasamy College of Engineering and Technology,
Cuddalore, Tamilnadu for providing excellent computing
facilities and encouragement.
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