DIGITAL ODOMETER

INTRODUCTION:

Digital odometer, which is specially designed to measure the speed of the motor.
The main theme of this project is to monitor the speed, since we can determine how much
speed and distance we traveled, depends on the application.

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:

This project is designed to measure the speed of the motor in any vehicles.

EXPLANATION:

The project has some important equipment to develop the demonstration. They
are
Proximity sensor
Microcontroller
LCD display

Component details:

Proximity sensor: This sensor is normally low, whenever it detects the metal piece in the
motor which is mounted fixedly, it goes high state. From this we can measure how much
speed it rotates in a significant time.

Microcontroller: It may ATMEL/PIC controller, where the sensor and display unit
interfaced. It calculates the speed and distance, and displays in LCD display.

LCD display: It displays the values which are calculated in the microcontroller, here
speed and distance, that may vary depend on application.
Project description:

Initially, speed of vehicle/motor is detected by proximity sensor and each pulse

taken from sensor is calculated in the microcontroller. We keep one port pin of the
microcontroller as an input. Every sensor pulse get through that pin and it evaluates the
correct resolution of the pulse detection per duration either at a seconds, minutes or hours
calculation according to our purpose.
Finally, the LCD display indicates all the evaluations going on the
microcontroller. It updates the display automatically in each and every microcontroller
operation.

ADVANTAGES:

Several advantages from this prototype project are

1. Simplifying circuit by microcontroller.

2. High speed pulse detection performance by proximity sensor.
3. Better resolution & testing from the LCD display.
4. Power consumption.
5. Less expensive.

APPLICATIONS:

The main applications of this project are

1. Vehicle speed measurement.

2. Motor speed controlling in industries.
3. Lift speed fixation in huge buildings.
 4. House hold articles regulation like fan, grinder, mixie, tape recorder
etc.,

BLOCK DIAGRAM

DIGITAL ODOMETER

Sensor Driver
Circuit
Micro
Controller

LCD Display