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NETWORK CONTROLLED MONITORING SYSTEM USING ARM 7

Sharvari B.Bhosale
PG Student, Electronics & Telecommunication, SCOE, Pune, Maharashtra,India,bhosalebsharvari@gmail.com
Network controlled device has its own demand and application with fast development in technology. The system of remote data
monitoring is designed based on the core processors of LPC2378 in the paper. The proposed paper is design to add security issue to
any general premises. In this paper, telemetry monitoring based on embedded platform with Ethernet port support is designed.
Method of embedded system interface based on Ethernet and ARM7LPC2378 processor. The platform has Ethernet interface on it
DP83848H can directly connect with the Ethernet MAC, to develop system. A data can be transmitted transparently through Ethernet
interface unit to the remote end desktop computer. This design has the advantage of cost-effective, easily realized, stable and reliable
transmission and so on. The simulation of the system is carried on network analyzer and it is seen that the no of bytes on wire matched
to captured one.

Index Terms: Remote data monitor, Embedded Ethernet, ARM 7.

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2. SYSTEM DESIGN

Embedded system is a special computer system that bases on

computer technology, focuses on application, software and
hardware customizable, suitable for the strict requirement of
application system on function, reliability, cost, volume and
power. It is widely used in military, civil electronics,
household appliances and consumption electronic products in
recent years [1]. But most of the embedded systems are used
independently at current stage, CAN, RS-232 and RS-485 are
the most commonly used technologies to deal with the
communication between multiple microprocessors in
industrial control fields and has the disadvantages such as low
transmission rate, limited coverage, relatively less
communication protocols, etc., which cause it very difficult to
perform flexible remote access and management. The Ethernet
(IEEE 802.3) is the most mature and widely used LAN
technology, connecting the embedded device to the network
device such as Hub, switch thus realizing a flexible real time
control and monitoring has already become an inevitable
development trend of embedded technology. In this paper, the
design and implementation process of a monitoring system
based on ARM7. ARM 7 LPC2378 development kit with
DP83848H module, are connected using a crossover Ethernet
cable RJ 45. On the transmission side, user-entered data is
compiled into an IEEE 802.3 frame; on the reception side, data
is extracted from the frame and displayed through the network
analyzer.

Having a clear definition of the properties and characteristics

of the embedded system prior to starting hardware and
software development is essential to achieve final result that
matches its target specifications. An IEEE 802.3 frame
consists of a 14-byte header, 46 to 1500 bytes of data, and an
optional 4-byte cyclic redundancy check. The 14-byte header
consists of a 6-byte source address, a 6-byte destination
address, and a 2-byte type/length field [4]. Data transmission
requires a brief discussion of the OSI Model, which consists of
seven layers in order from the top layer to the bottom layer: A
computers network protocol stack consists of the modules
involved with networking. Fig.1 shows a Network Protocol
Stack for a computer that connects to an Ethernet network and
supports common Internet protocols. At the bottom of the
stack is the hardware interface to the network cable. Here,
LPC2378 board with RJ 45 connector is present. At the top a
module or modules that provide data to send on the network
and use the data received from the network. In the middle
there may be one or more modules involved with addressing,
error-checking, and providing and using status and control
information. In transmitting, a message travels down the stack
from the application layer that initiates the message to the
network interface that places the message on the network. In
receiving, the message travels up the stack from the network
interface to the application layer that uses the data in the
received message. The number of layers a message passes
through can vary. For some messages that travel only within a
local network, the application layer can communicate directly
with the Ethernet driver.

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3. HARDWARE SYSTEM DESIGN

The system mainly composed of Processor module is the core
part of the design, in which the ARM chip LPC2378 used.
LPC2378 is an ARM-based microcontroller for applications
requiring serial communications for a variety of purposes [9].
This microcontroller incorporate a 10/100 Ethernet MAC
(DP83848H), USB 2.0 Full Speed interface, four UARTs, two
CAN channels, an SPI interface, two Synchronous Serial Ports
(SSP), three I2C interfaces, an I2S interface, and a Minibus
(LPC2378 only: 8-bit data/16-bit address parallel bus), Onchip crystal oscillator run with an operating range of 1 MHz to
24 MHz [7]. In the LPC2378 board have in built Ethernet
interface module is provided and the collected data are
uploaded to a PC via Ethernet interface as shown in Fig.2.
PIR
sensor

ARM7 Ethernet
LPC2378 Interface

Host
computer

Fig-1: Network Protocol Stack

Fig-2: System Block Diagram

In Ethernet networks, a unique hardware address identifies

each interface on the network [5]. IP addresses are more
flexible because they arent specific to a network type. A
message that uses IP can travel through different types of
networks, including Ethernet, token-ring, and wireless
networks, as long as all of the networks support IP. A
communication in a local network that doesnt use TCP or
UDP may not require IP. Messages that travel on the Internet
must use the Internet Protocol. Messages that use the Internet
Protocol can also use the User Datagram Protocol or the
Transmission Control Protocol to add error checking or flowcontrol capabilities. The LPC2378 microcontroller board uses
UDP protocol packet to transmit data to a remote computer.
UDP protocol is one of protocols in the TCP/IP protocol suite
that is used in the place of TCP when a reliable delivery is not
required. There is less processing of UDP packets than the one
of TCP. UDP protocol is widely used for streaming audio and
video, voice over IP (VoIP) and video conferences, because
there is no time to retransmit erroneous or dropped packets.
An application often has a user interface that enables users to
request data from a computer on the network or provide data
to send on the network. An application may use a standard
protocol such as the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) for
requesting and sending Web pages, the file transfer protocol
(FTP) for transferring files, or the simple mail transfer
protocol (SMTP) or Post Office Protocol (POP3) for e-mail
messages. Here FTP is chosen.

For the purpose of testing, the microcontroller is used to

control a Lamp and monitor a Passive Infra Red (PIR) sensor
for motion detection. A Door opening Sensor and a
Temperature sensor has also been integrated to enable its
usage in other applications. The PIR (Passive Infra-Red)
Sensor is a pyroelectric device that detects motion by
measuring changes in the infra-red levels emitted by
surrounding objects. This motion can be detected by checking
for a high signal on a single I/O pin, in the current
development. Here #555-28027 PIR sensor manufactured by
Parallax is used. In the Ethernet interface module, Ethernet
controller DP83848H (PHYTER mini extended temperature
qualified to AEC-Q100 grade 2) are divided into two layers
according to its functions [7].One is media access controller
(MAC) layer and the other is network physical (PHY) layer.
They correspond to Layer 2 and Layer 1 in ISO model. MAC
layer provides the treatment on data sending and receiving. It
also provides an interface to PHY through an internal medium
independent interface. In this design, LPC2378 supports
Ethernet interface and network transformer HR601680 which
is connected between Microcontroller Lpc2368 and connector
RJ45 is used to improve the signal anti-interference capability.
HR601680 is a 1:1 transformer with a smaller package and it
supports 10M/100M Ethernet.

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4. ETHERNET COMMUNICATION

6. RESULT

In the design of network communication, we should handle

Ethernet frame accepting and Ethernet frame transmitting,
According to the received packet type, choose a different
approach; the length of frame cannot exceed the IEEE802. 3
standards (1 514 bytes) in accepting, when transmit Ethernet
frame, we should add 14 bit Ethernet header logo on the
transmission data, namely, increase the packet length.

Fig. 3 indicates the monitoring interface of captured data using

Wireshark Network Protocol analyzer; from it we know the
system can fulfil the design requirements. The send data are
control commands sent from monitor computer to equipment
while the receive data are state feedback data received from
equipment. The number of bytes in wire (RJ45) matched to
captured one. Here windows showing data captured from
sample frame transmitted through RJ 45.

Data transmission over the Ethernet medium can be segmented

into three main steps:
1. Initialization of the EMAC, PHY and the CPU:
(a) Initialize EMAC Control Registers.
(b) Initialize PHY registers.
(c) Enable interrupts after setting interrupt handlers for the
EMAC interrupts.
2. Transmission of frame:
(a) Generate fields within the frame.
(b) Generate an Ethernet packet with the help of the frame.
(c) Create a descriptor table for the Ethernet packet.
(d) Transfer control of the buffer to EMAC for Transmission.
(e) Once the packet is transmitted interrupt occurs and the
program is looped back to initial starting point.
3. Reception of frame:
(a) Check the status of reception.
(b) Copy data into memory location specified by the user.
(c) Update the EMAC Interrupt Status .Register and loop to
initial starting point.

5. SYSTEM TESTING
After the software and hardware designs have been completed,
the ultimate generated codes are compiled and downloaded to
the target system for testing. SPJs LPC2378 Target board and
SCARM compiler used. SCARM is SPJ Systems C Compiler
for ARM. It also includes an IDE and other tools like Visual
Code Generator (VCG) and terminal emulation utility
(SPJTerm)[8]. Wireshark is a network packet analyzer. A
network packet analyzer will try to capture network packets
and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible.
Wireshark to view the contents of Ethernet frames along with
timing and other information Wireshark from any PC in the
network youre monitoring. To ensure that the frames want to
see are visible, the PC running Wireshark should be in the
same collision domain as the computer whose traffic
monitoring.

Fig-3. The Wireshark Network Protocol Analyzer

and displays Ethernet traffic.

decodes

7. CONCLUSION
The system developed will be very useful to increase security
against the theft & general premises resources. While the
Ethernet is most mature and widely used data link layer
technology for Internet, the scheme proposed in this paper
not only can be used in connecting the embedded device to
LAN, but also as a data link and physical layer support for
embedded web system. This system can be used widely in the
domain of data-acquisition and remote data transportation,
access control, security, attendance system and industrial onsite network monitoring etc.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The authors are grateful to our principal, Dr.S.D.Lokhande,
for providing necessary facilities towards carrying out this
work. We acknowledge the diligent efforts of our Head of the
Department in guide us towards implementation of this idea.

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AUTHORS PROFILE
Sharvari B Bhosale
She received B.E. degree in Electronics & Telecommunication
from Shivaji University, Maharashtra, India in 2009, and
doing post graduation in VLSI and Embedded System Design
from University of Pune, India.
bhosalebsharvari@gmail.com

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