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THE APPLICATION OF WIRELESS SENSOR

TECHNOLOGY IN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER

AIM:
The aim of this project is to employ sensors to detect earthquakes and communicate the detection
to the authorities using wireless network.
PURPOSE:
Environmental monitoring is a typical application of sensor network. Through the use of sensor
network composed by a large number of interconnection miniature sensor node, the researchers
can collect high-precision data uninterruptedly on the interested environment. Compared to the
traditional environmental monitoring method, monitor environmental has three significant
advantages: first, the volume of the sensor node is small and the entire network only need to be
deployed once. Therefore human impact on the monitoring environment causing by deploying
sensor network is very small. Second, the number of sensor network nodes is large, distribution
density is high, and each node can detect the detailed information of local environment and
collect to base station, therefore the sensor network has the characteristics of large capacity of
data collection and high precision. Third, wireless sensor node itself has certain computing
power and storage capacity. It can do collaborative monitoring among the nodes. Increasing the
battery capacity, improving battery use efficiency and using wireless communication module and
wireless communication protocol with the low power consumption can continue life period of
sensor network for a long time. In the future of earthquake relief, wireless sensor technology
satellite and thermal infrared of remote sensing technology will play a good role. Sensor network
is the good platform to realize these technologies, earthquake rescue equipment, coordination
relief and unified command can operate intelligently under the environment of seismic sensor
network. Sensor network will play a good role in the application of spatial information
technology.

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BLOCK DIAGRAM:

Transmitter Section:

Power Supply

RF Transmitter
MICRO CONTROLLER

Seismic Sensor

(ARM7)

Receiver Section:

Power Supply

RF Receiver
MICRO CONTROLLER

LCD

(ARM7)

Buzzer

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DESCRIPTION:
Transmitter Section:
In this project, we make use of a Seismic Piezo-electric sensor which detects sudden
vibrations in the ground i.e, the detection of an earthquake. These seismic sensors need to be
calibrated in order to set the degree of sensing. Once the calibration is done, this sensor is
connected to an ADC0808 which converts the analog signal to a digital one. This signal is
received by the microcontroller and is compared with the predefined values. If the signal
received is large enough to cause an earthquake, the information is sent through an RF module
on to the receiver.
Receiver Section:
In the receiver side, the signal is received by the necessary authorities so that the
preventive measures can be taken. We make use of a buzzer in the receiving section so as to
intimate the authorities that an earthquake of a large magnitude is about to occur.
HARDWARE COMPONENTS:

Microcontroller
Seismic sensor
ADC 0808
LC Display
Buzzer
RF module

SOFTWARE COMPONENTS:

Flash magic
Embedded C
Express PCB

RESULT:
Thus, we can develop a cost-effective network of similar modules to monitor the seismic
activities occurring at various places in the region.

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Embedded systems 7842522786/9948887244/9346934699

Email: info@purpletechnosolutions.com

www.purpletechnosolutions.com

9030880909/101/202/505/606