Door Movement Alert System

Abstract

Accidents could happen anywhere at any time in shipping industries. Over the years shipping companies have been investing great effort into reducing the amount of incidents onboard ship. No matter the severity of the injury, incidents are still bad and need to be avoided. One of the most common incidents onboard happen during opening or closing of the door onboard ship which results in finger pinch and door accidentally hitting the person on the other side. The objective of this journal is to describe a simple design with application of microcontrollers based system that can be readily adapted into the current vessels. The installation is simple and can be carried out by the ship’s crew. The simulation for this design is simulated using Proteus software and the coding was carried out using MBLab. The focus of the project is to alert crew members of person movement near the door to increase awareness and prevent incidents. The PIR sensor will detect infrared energy emitted by human body and send the signal to the MCU to indicate there is activity at the vicinity of the door. The MCU will activate the LED located at the top of the door. This will give awareness to the crew to take extra precaution on opening the door.