Do we think that we can control our home and office electrical appliances using our

cell phone? Yes.! we canHere is a simple home controls home

automation electronic mini project circuit diagram to control any electrical
appliances using mobile phone without using a microcontroller. This circuit makes
use of DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency).

DTMF: DTMF is a common communication term for touch tone phones. The tones
formed when dialing on the keypad (DTMF digits or DTMF number) on the phone
can be used to characterize the digits, and some different tone is used for each digit.
DTMF signaling is mainly used in DTMF phones, telephone switching system.

There is always a possibility that a random sound will be on the similar frequency
which will trip up the DTMF sounds system. It was recommended that if two tones
were used to represent a digit, the probability of a false signal happening is ruled out,
thus the name Dual Tone. This is the basis of using dual tone in DTMF
communication. DTMF dialing uses a keypad with 12 or 16 buttons. Each key pressed
on the keypad generates two tones of particular frequencies, so a voice or a random
signal cannot mimic DTMF signaling tones. One tone is generated from a High
DTMF frequency group of tones and the other from Low DTMF frequency group.

When a button is pressed, both the row and column tones are generated by the
telephone or touch tone instrument.
These two tones will be distinctive and different from tones of other keys. So
there is a low and high frequency associated with a button, it is essentially the
sum of two waves is transmitted.
This elementary principle can be extended to a range of applications.

DTMF Frequencies generated on Key press

 The frequencies generated on pressing different phone keys are shown in the
Table.
Button Low DTMF High DTMF
frequency frequency
(Hz) (Hz)
1 697 1209
2 697 1336
3 697 1477
4 770 1209
5 770 1336
6 770 1477
7 852 1209
8 852 1336
9 852 1477
0 941 1336
* 941 1209
# 941 1477

This home appliances control or home automation project also uses the DTMF
decoder circuit section with little modifications to control home and office electrical
appliances. Just connect our cell phone headset (headphone) jack to the mobile phone
and then mobile will control electrical appliances and electrical equipment through
the DTMF key pad of our cell phone.

Here for demonstrating, we are

ar controlling an bulb using this circuit project but we
can extend this circuit to control many electrical
e devices
Circuit diagram of mobile controlled home appliances

Components required for home automation

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

Working of this home automation electronic project

Our project uses M-8870 DTMF decoder IC which decodes tone generated by
the keypad of cell phone.

When we press any key on our mobile phone while call is in progress, the
other person will hear some tones corresponding to the keys pressed. These
tones are based on the DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) technology.
 Data is transmitted as pairs of tones. The receiver detects the valid freque
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.

Now according to the figure if we cut the microphone wire then we will be able
to see 4 wires.. Among these wires we 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 of Q1, Q2,
Q3, and Q4.

Table showing DTMF Low and High frequency tones and

decoded output
 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 resets 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 *, the
DTMF decoder IC generates a high pulse which acts as a clock to our flip flop
and sets the output flip flop 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 is connected at the normally open terminal of relay circuit