SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY

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Mini Project Synopsis
On

Soldier Health and Position Tracking

System
Submitted by

1. Name of student [Roll Number]

2. Name of student [Roll Number]
3. Name of student [Roll Number]

Under the Guidance of

Dr. O. S. Rajankar (for Batch A and B)
Prof. H. S. Shaikh (for Batch C)
Prof K. B. Kharat (for Batch D and E)

to

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

STES’s NBN Sinhgad Technical Institutes Campus

NBN SINHGAD SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, AMBEGAON (BK), PUNE-41

2017-18
 Abstract
Nowadays all nations keep its security at high priority. Wars are being fought for land, water
and acquiring the position of most powerful nation. A country’s arm forces consist of three
professional uniformed services: the army, the navy, and the air force. Soldiers being the
backbone of any armed force usually lose their lives due to lack of medical help when in
emergency, also soldiers who are involved in missions or in special operations get straggled
on war fields and lose contact with the authorities. To overcome this concerns we had built
this project which, using wireless body area sensor network (WBANS) such as temperature
sensor, heartbeat sensor etc. will monitor the health status of the soldier whenever required.
Also using GPS we can track the soldier’s exact location whenever required. Using oxygen
level sensor we can also monitor the environmental condition, so authorities can provide
essential aids. The communication is established between the soldiers and authorities via
GSM. Any abnormalities in the readings of wireless body area sensor network (WBASNs) is
considered as a trigger for GSM to establish the connection between the soldier and base unit
and send current location and health status to the receiver. By using all this equipment’s we
had tried to implement the basic guarding system for the soldier in low cost, light weighted,
portable and precise device.

Keywords: Barometric pressure sensor, GPS, GSM, WBASNs, ZigBee.

1.1 Motivation and Problem Statement

The nation’s security is monitored and kept by army, navy and air-force. The important and
vital role is of soldiers who sacrifice their life for their country. There are many concerns
regarding the safety of the soldier. Soldiers entering the enemy lines often lose their lives due
to lack of connectivity, it is very vital for the army base station to known the location as well
as health status of all soldiers. India has already lost so many soldiers in war-fields as there
was no proper health backup and connectivity between the soldiers on the war-fields and the
officials at the army base stations. Recently on 29 September 2016, a military confrontation
between India and Pakistan began; Indian soldiers conducted a surgical strike against militant
launch pads across the line of control in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir, and inflicted
“significant causalities”. Indian soldiers are mainly known for their courage, in spite of scarce
ammunitions and safety measures; they have many triumphs to their credits. All must be
really concerned about the safety of the soldiers, so we have decided to build a project which
will efficiently keep a check on the health status of the soldier, and his precise location to
equip him with necessary medical treatments as soon as possible. Soldier’s tracking is done
using GPS and GSM is used to provide wireless communication system. For monitoring the
health parameters of soldier we are using bio medical sensors such as temperature sensor and
heart beat sensor. An oxygen level sensor is used to monitor atmospheric oxygen so if there
are any climatic changes the soldiers will be equipped accordingly.

During, wars and military search operations, soldiers gets injured and sometime becomes
losses. To find soldiers and provide health monitoring, army base station and need GPS
device for locating soldiers, WBASNs to sense health related parameters of soldiers and a
wireless transceiver to transmit the data wirelessly. Hong Beng Lim, Di Ma, Bang Wang,
Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar k. Lyer, Kenneth L. Watkin has discussed on recent
advantage in growing technology, and on various wearable, portable ,light weighted and
small sized sensor that have been developed for monitoring of the human physiological
parameters .The body sensor network (BSN) consists of many biomedical and physiological
sensors such as blood pressure sensors , Electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor, electro dermal
activity (EDA) sensor which can be placed on human body for health monitoring in real time
presented an idea for the safety of soldiers. There are many instruments which can be used to
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view the health status of soldiers as well as ammunitions on them. The Bio sensor which
consists of various types of small physiological sensors, transmission modules have great
processing capabilities and can facilitates the low-Cost wearable solutions for health
monitoring. introduced system that gives ability to track the soldiers at any moment
additionally ,the soldiers will be able to communicated with control room using GPS
coordinate in their distress. The location tracking has great importance since World War II,
when military forces realized its usefulness for navigation, positioning, targeting and fleet
management. This system is reliable, energy efficient for remote soldier health monitoring
and their location tracking. It is able to send the sensed and processed parameters of soldier in
real time. It enables to army control room to monitor health parameters of soldiers like
heartbeat, body temperature, etc. using body sensor networks. The parameters of soldiers are
measured continuously and wirelessly transmitted using GSM.

1.2 Objectives and Scope

To overcome the problem this is our goal. To achieve it following objectives are set.

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1.3 Specifications

1. ATmega328P AVR MC- Buy ATmega328P Online

2. SIM 800 GSM Module – Buy SIM 800 Online
3. Neo6mv2 GPS Module – Buy GPS Module Online
4. Heartbeat Sensor – Buy Heartbeat Sensor Online
5. Temperature Sensor – Buy Temp Sensor Online
6. LCD’s – Buy LCD Online
7. Buzzer- Buy Buzzer Online
8. Crystal Oscillator – Buy Crystal Oscillators Online
 9. Resistors – Buy Resistors Online
10. Capacitors – Buy Capacitors Online
11. Transistors – Buy Transistors Online
12. Cables & Connectors – Buy Cables & Connectors Online
13. Diodes – Buy Diodes Online
14. PCB – Buy PCB & Breadboards Online
15. LED’s – Buy LED Online
16. Arduino Compiler
17. MC Programming Language: C

1.4 Block Diagram

Figure 1.1: Block diagram of the system.

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1.5 Flowchart or Algorithm if required

1.6 Circuit Diagram

Figure 1.1: Circuit diagram of the system.

OVERVIEW OF THE SYSTEM
A. Heart beat sensor
The sensor used in this project is pulse sensor-SEN-11574. Heart rate data can be really
useful for determining the health status of a person. The pulse sensor amped is a plug and
play heart rate sensor for arduino. It essentially combines a simple optical heart rate sensor
with amplification and noise cancellation circuitry making it fast and easy to get reliable
pulse readings. It sips power with just 4 mA current draw at 5V. To use it simply clip the
pulse sensor to earlobe or fingertip.

B. Temperature sensor
The LM35 series are precision integrated-circuit temperature devices with an output voltage
linearly-proportional to the centigrade temperature. The LM35 device has an advantage
over linear temperature sensor calibrated in Kelvin, as the user is not required to subtract a
large constant voltage from the output to obtain convenient centigrade scaling. To find the
health status of soldier base station should know the body temperature and pulse rate of
the soldier. So we are using LM35 body biosensor as it is a low cost temperature sensor and
it does not require signal conditioning. The LM35 generates a higher output voltage than
thermocouples and may not require that the output voltage be amplified. As the
temperature increase above the specified value the GSM module will immediately alert the
Base station and thus will not wait for heart beats to go out of the normal range.

C. GPS modem
Neo 6 M GPS is a USRT 6 M module. It will be used to track the position of the soldier. It gets
connected to at-most 32 satellite and will give the exact longitude and latitude readings. In
this way it will track the exact position. While originally a military project, GPS is considered
a dual-use technology, meaning it has significant military and civilian applications. It
operates in the range -40 degree Celsius to 85 degree Celsius and at 2.7V-5V. Also it has a
tracking and navigation sensitivity of -161 dBm.

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D. GSM Modem
GSM module is a breakout board and minimum system of SIM900 Quad-band/SIM900A
Dual-band GSM/GPRS module. It can communicate with controllers via AT commands (GSM
07.07, 07.05 and SIMCOM enhanced AT Commands). This module supports software power
on and reset. It has a quad-band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and a dual-band 900/1900 MHz.
It has control via AT commands, a very low power consumption of
1.5mA (sleep mode).

E. Microcontroller ATmega328p
The ATmega328 is a single –chip microcontroller created by ATmega in the mega AVR
family. The Atmel 8-bit RISC-based microcontroller combines 32kB ISP flash memory with
read while-write capabilities, 1KB EEPROM, 2kB SRAM, 23 general purpose I/P lines, 32
general purpose working registers, three flexible timer/counter with compare modes,
internal and external interrupts, serial programmable USART, a byte-oriented 2-wire serial
interface, 6-channel 10-bit A/D converter programmable watchdog timer with internal
oscillator, and five software selectable power saving modes. The device operates between
1.8-5.5 volts. The device achieves throughput approaching 1 MIPS per MHz.

F. LCD display
Alphanumeric displays are used in a wide range of application, include palmtop computer,
word processor. Available as an optional extra is the serial LCD firmware, which allows serial
control of the display. This option provides much easier connection and use of the LCD
module. The firmware enables microcontroller to visually output user instruction or reading
onto an LCD module. All LCD command is transmitted serially via a single microcontroller
pin. The firmware can also be connected to the serial port of a computer.
1.7 Applications
Following are the applications of this mini project.

1.8 Advantages

1.9 Disadvantages

References/Bibliography

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