Sowinkumar Namel a/l Nagarajan (ee095367)

Raneej a/l Sukumaran

(ee095356)

Section 4
Bench 05

Fridge Door Alarm Project Proposal

About Fridge.

A refrigerator (colloquially fridge) is a common household appliance that consists of a thermally

insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from
the inside of the fridge to its external environment so that the inside of the fridge is cooled to a
temperature below the ambient temperature of the room. Refrigeration is an essential food storage
technique in developed countries. The lower temperature lowers the reproduction rate of bacteria, so
the refrigerator reduces the rate of spoilage.

Problems That are Usually faced with a fridge

Most of the common problem are faced by the society is the current bills. Refrigerator will used
more electricity until it reaches its maximum coldness. So, most of children or adult will used the
refrigerator and forget to close the door. It will conduct more electricity due to increase its coldness.
This will increase the current bill of the house. To overcome this type of problem , we would like to
introduce our refrigerator door alarm.

Description about the fridge system.

This is a fridge door alarm circuit, which produces an audible alarm when fridge is left open for a
preset time. This versatile alarm is based on two 555 timer ICs. Both ICs are wired as astable
Multivibrators. An LDR is connected in parallel to the timing capacitor C1 of IC 1.When door is
completely close there will be no light inside the fridge and LDR offers high resistance keeping R1
fully charged.When door is left open ,the lamp inside the fridge will keep glowing ,LDR will be
illuminated, and its resistance falls. This makes C1 stop charging and starts to discharge ( In simple
words, this is because at low resistance LDR bye passes much of the current in the parallel path and
capacitor gets less current). Now IC 1 starts slightly oscillating and after a preset time of 25 ( time
T1) seconds its output goes high. This out put makes the Ic 2 to produce oscillations and results in a
beeping sound for next 20(time T2) seconds and cycle is repeated till door is closed. Assemble the
circuit on a good quality PCB .Time T1 & T2 can be adjusted by varying C1, C2, R1, R4 etc (Refer
data sheet of 555).Place the LDR close enough to the lamp inside the fridge.
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