Project Proposal
Rain Alarm
Group Members:
Muhammad Moiz Abbas
Roll no:2023F-BEL-024
Muhammad Saqib Uddin Roll
no:2023F-BEL-020
Muhammad Ayan Ali
Roll no:2023F-BEL-023
Mohi Uddin
Roll no:2023F-BEL-021
Teacher:
Mam Sabeen
Department of Electrical
Engineering
Sir Syed University of
Engineering and Technology
Rain Alarm
1. INTRODUCTION
Rain alarm is an application which detects the rain
water and blows alarm. They are useful devices and
play an important role in various industries such as
automobile, irrigation, and wireless communication.
2. OBJECTIVE
Rain Alarm Project is a simple but very useful project
that detects Rain (Rain Water) and automatically
triggers an alarm or buzzer.
3. PROJECT CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
Rain Alarm Project Block Diagram
The block diagram of the Rain Alarm Project is shown in
the following image. The three main components of the
project are the Rain Water Sensor, 555 Timer IC and
Buzzer.
5. METHODOLOGY
It is a very simple rain alarm circuit which is designed
using mainly a transistor, water sensor and a 555 timer
IC. Whenever there is a rain, rain drops falls on the rain
sensor, and as you can see in the diagram of rain
sensor, water on rain sensor would short the Point A
and B. As soon as Point A and B become short, a
positive voltage would get applied on the base of
Transistor Q1, through the resistance R4. Because of
the voltage at the base, transistor becomes ON (initially
it was in OFF state), and current started flowing form
collector to emitter.
Now Reset PIN 4 of the 555 Timer, gets a positive
voltage and 555 timer IC becomes ON and Buzzer
starts beeping. Here we should note that initially there
was no positive voltage at Reset PIN 4 of 555 IC, as it
was connected to the ground through resistance R5
(4.7k) and 555 IC only works when Reset pin gets
positive voltage.
Here we can see that 555 Timer IC has been configured
in Astable mode so that Buzzer generate a oscillating
sound (means periodically on and off). This oscillation
frequency can be controlled by changing the value of
resistor R2 and/or capacitor C1. Pin 5 control Pin,
should be connected to ground through a .01uf
capacitor. Resistor R3 and R4 has been used to control
the transistor’s collector and base current respectively.
Rain sensor should be kept at 30-40 degree from the
ground, so that water cannot stay on it, for the long
time, this will prevent the alarm to going on for a long
time.
5. APPLICATIONS OF PROJECT
Components
Rain sensor
555 Timer IC
NPN Transistor BC547
Resistors (470, 100k and 1k ohm)
Capacitor (10uf)
Buzzer
Battery 9v
