POORNIMA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, JAIPUR

A
Project Report
on

Aurdino based alcohol detector with buzzer

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment to the Department for Non Syllabus Activity

SESSION 2018-19
Kushaldeep Sharma
Assistant professor
Department of electrical engineering

SUBMITTED TO:

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 Ashutosh Sharma
Harshit Mathur
Arbaj Khan
Aakib Nassar
SECTION: - B
BRANCH :- EE

SUBMITTED BY:

GUIDED BY: ZIRCON CLUB

DEPARTMENT OF FIRST YEAR

POORNIMA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ISI-6, RICCO INSTITUTIONAL

AREA, SITAPURA, JAIPUR

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CONTENT LIST

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 MOTIVATION BEHIND

1.2 OBJECTIVE

2. LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 BACKGROUND HISTORY

2.2 DETAILS OF THE PROJECTS

3. DESIGN

3.1 MATERIALS AND METHODS

4. TESTING AND RESULTS

4.1 TESTING METHODS
4.2 ASSUMPTION INTESTING

4.3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

5. REFERENCES

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 INTRODUCTION
MOTIVATION

The aim of this project is to design a system for implementing an efficient alcohol detection
system that will be useful to avoid accidents. There are many different types of accidents
which occur in daily life. Most often accidents occur due to over drunken person. Though
there are laws to punish drunken drivers they cannot be fully implemented because traffic
police cannot stand on every road to check each and every car driver whether he/she has
drunk or not. This can be a major reason for accidents. So there is a need for an effective
system to check drunken drivers. Therefore in order to avoid these accidents we have
implemented a prototype project. In our project, initially we check whether the person has
drunken or not by using the MQ3 GAS sensor. In this system, sensor circuit is used to detect
whether the alcohol was consumed by driver or not. To this end, we have designed such a
system that when alcohol concentration is detected alarm is raised.

OBJECTIVES

The main aim of this embedded application is to design Arduino based alcohol detector with
buzzer.

LITERATURE REVIEW

BACKGROUND AND HISTORY

In 1927 Dr. Emil Bogen from Los Angeles conducted tests comparing the relation between
blood and breath alcohol. His proto-breathalyzer consisted of a football filled with different
yellow chemicals that would turn blue or green. He would then compare the exact color
shades to glasses that contained the same chemicals mixed with varying amounts of alcohol​1​.
His method was effective and precise, but not suitable for the application in actual traffic
situations.
Four years later, Robert F. Borkenstein invented the modern, portable breathalyzer. During
his work as a police lab photographer he came up with the ingenious idea of creating an
alcohol tester based on photographic cells.
A portable opportunity to determine someone’s alcohol level came in handy for both the
police and drivers, which resulted in the widespread application of the breathalyzer within a

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short period of time, resulting in much more technical advances that lead to the devices we
use nowadays.

DETAILS OF PROJECT

As with any technology-based embedded system, this model too requires specific hardware
and application that make the device operational. Table 1, enlists the hardware and software
requirements for the model.

Hardware Used:-

1. MQ3 Alcohol sensor

2. Arduino UNO
3. Buzzer
4. Breadboard
5. Jumper cables

The Features

1. Requires 6 volt of power supply

2. Analog Interference
3. High sensitivity to alcohol
4. Faster response time
5. Highly stable, long life and low in cost

​Advantages

· Safe driving: There are many accidents in which the driver often loses his precious life
under the influence of alcohol

· Compact size: Only the MQ-3 alcohol sensor has to be placed on the steering wheel and the
rest of the components are hidden. The MQ3 sensor doesn’t occupy more than 3 inches
space.

· Reduced number of accidents: The main focus of this system is to reduce the number of
accidents due to alcohol consumption during driving.

Limitations

Every system is subject to certain limitations and inherent errors, the MQ3 based system for
detecting alcohol content in blood too is subject to failure and system crash –

· If the concentration of alcohol in breath is less than 0.5mg/l then the sensor will not detect
the alcohol.

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 · If the vents of the sensor get blocked due to some dust/dirt or other materials, this will too
result in the system not being able to perform efficiently

· If the driver covers the sensor module by something like a handkerchief or a piece of cloth it
will not function as desired as the input to the sensor then it will not detect alcohol.

DESIGN

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Arduino: -​ The Arduino UNO is an open-source microcontroller board based on
the Microchip ATmega328P microcontroller. The board is equipped with sets of digital and
analog input/output pins that may be interfaced to various expansion boards (shields) and
other circuits. The board has 14 Digital pins, 6 Analog pins, and programmable with the
arduino via a type B USB cable. It can be powered by a USB cable or by an external 9 volt
battery, though it accepts voltages between 7 and 20 volts "Uno" means one in Italian and
was chosen to mark the release of Arduino Software.

MQ-3 Sensor​ - MQ-3 is an analog as well as a digital sensor which detects alcohol
consumption by the smell of the breath. The sensor has four pins - Analog Out, Digital
Output, VCC, and Ground. The VCC and ground are connected to the common VCC and
Ground. The digital output pin is not used therefore is kept not connected. The output of the
sensor is drawn from the analog output pin which is connected to the pin A0 of the Arduino
board.

Power Supply​ - The circuit needs a 6V regulated DC for its operation. An 9V battery can be
used as the primary source of power. The supply from the battery can be regulated to 6V
using 7805 voltage regulator IC. The pin 1 of the voltage regulator IC should be connected to
the anode of the battery and pin 2 of it should be connected to the ground. The voltage output
must be drawn from pin 3 of the 7805 IC.

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TESTING AND RESULT

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REFERENCES
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Reference Books

Author's Initials, Surname, ​Title of book (in italic),​ Edition, Name of Publisher, Place of
publication, ​year of publication (bold)​.

[1] RL Ashley, ​In Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Infections​, 3rd ed., Marcel Dekker, New
York, ​1999​.

Online documents

[2] J Cartwright, Big stars have weather too, ​IOP Publishing Physics​, Web.
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1​,​ ​2007​.

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