Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System using GSM technology

Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System using GSM technology

Description:

Cell Phone Tower Base Station

In today’s world mobile or cell phone plays very important role in communication. In mobile communication, for transmission and reception of signals there is a transceiver station known as cell site. Cell phone towers or mobile towers are installed to increase the network coverage of the GSM mobile network provider. Height of this tower varies from 50 feet to 200 feet. At the base of these cell phone towers there is a processing unit or electronic circuit which processes the signal. This unit is also called as “Cell site” or “Base Transmitter Station” or “Base Transceiver Station (BTS)”. The aim of “Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System” is to design such a system which can monitor and control various alarms at mobile cell site. Intention of this project is to ensure the safety of this unit which is at the base of cell site. The main objective is to monitor various threats like fire detection, smoke detection, to check the fuel level and to check if the door is left open. The door check is required since many times the maintenance workers forget to properly close the door of the base station unit. A typical cell site or mobile tower base station consists of various units including power management unit (PMU), BTS unit, battery unit and air-conditioners. These different units of cell site require frequent maintenance. For some type of base stations, it is daily and for some types it is weekly. These maintenances are quite expensive. With the use of “Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System”, we can reduce huge maintenance cost.

Block Diagram:

Description in detail:

GSM Modem:
Smoke sensor:
Temperature sensor:
Fuel Level Sensor:
Door Sensor:
LCD display:
Microcontroller:
DC Motor:
Buzzer:

Applications and Advantages:

As the name suggests, this project finds its main application in mobile tower base stations.

The main advantage of “Cell Phone Tower Base Station Safety System using GSM technology” is that with the help of GSM technology, the data of Cell phone tower base station can be sent to a longer distance through SMS.

Future Development:

1. We can add more sensors to this system.

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