International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE)

ISSN: 2278-3075, Volume-3, Issue-1, June 2013

Control System Based Tiny Webserver

Manjunath Putted, Ganesh V Bhat

Abstract:- With the growing popularity of Internet, Embedded Whereas mechanization provides human operators with
Technology and Web Technology developing a control system machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of
based on embedded web server, by using a Ethernet as work, the automation greatly decreases the need for human
communication media, this is finding wide spread application in sensory and mental requirements. This automation system in
embedded field. The proposed work plans to control the
industry and t limit of region and time with inter-access
appliances placed in industrial area through the web server, in
this plans to use of LPC1768 CORTEX-M3 based embedded
between the heterogeneous equipment [4].
board in the implementation of a Tiny web server (embedded web And all Information’s and data are measured either in
server) for control of industrial appliances in the server side. To electrical form or in non electrical form. The measured data
communicate server with client a Ethernet is using here, can be displayed through web pages from the server In any
Ethernet network communication Interface by using TCP/IP control system Electrical Network is more important because
protocol and an Ethernet interface with HTML web page. This Electrical Systems are necessary in each kind of building such
TCP/IP protocol is act as bridge between client and server and as research laboratories, homes, factories, hospitals and so
initialize to communicate. The webpage and firmware is done in on. In many cases electrical systems manage critical
HTML and dynamic C programming language respectively. applications, like freezer-temperature, incubator internal
Here the embedded system board acts as central heart of the temperature and so on. All these systems contain devices that
server between webpage and appliances.
are sensitive to voltage variations, current deviations and to
Index Terms— Controlling appliances, Embedded web server, all the power quality and quantities. This system can measure
Remote I/O data, TCP/IP. and store any kind of electrical and non-electrical signals in
embedded web server. And it can able to control the devices
I. INTRODUCTION remotely.
With the rapid improvement in the x86 and ARM
processor architecture in the recent years, 8 bit and 16 bit II. WEB BASED SUPERVISION AND CONTROL
microcontrollers have become rather obsolete. However, their SYSTEM
relatively simple architecture and cheap price make them Web based automation is a recent development in the
ideal for simple functions in systems that do not require the industrial sector. The implementation of industrial process
higher computing power of the more expensive 32 bit chips control is made possible by the use of Internet,. This has
[6]. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the actually lead to the concept called “Web Based Supervision
world economy and in daily experience [2]. and Control System “
Nowadays, the system integrating web and embedded The entire structure chart of the remote controlling and
technology is gained more popularity. Controlling a system monitoring system based on embedded web server platform is
via PC is very common. A web base control and monitoring shown in Figure 2.0.
system can make us control a system without distance and The idea is to take a system with some controlling
without muscular power. So developing a cost effective, parameters, and connect the system directly via server and at
programmable and high efficiency controller webpage is monitor or control these various parameters through remote
necessary for the world competition so we are designing a location. The function of Web-based equipment monitoring
web page that contains all necessary specifications [3]. system is to collect data information of the onsite equipment,
Integrating web and embedded technology, the embedded publish it through a Web form, and remotely send the data in
equipment monitoring and controlling system based on web the form of the user-defined data transmission style. The data
management can be done. Managers can remote access, will be published through web page form by the web server.
monitor and maintain the on-site equipment through the The remote computer will collect the data and display it to on
network using a web browser without In today the world the web page, and it indicates level for example liquid in
needs a fully automation system, that is use for control liquid tank, temperature in the boiler, humidity sensors
systems and information technologies to reduce the need for reading. etc, all these information’s will display on the web
human intervention in the production field in the industries, page which also allows all these control the appliances.
such as services, and industry maintenance. In the scope of
industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization.

Manuscript received June , 2013.

Mr. Manjunath, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department,
Canara Engineering College, Bantwala, Mangalore, Karnataka.
Dr. Ganesh V Bhat, Electronics and Communication Engineering Fig 2.0: Control system based on embedded web Server
Department, Canara Engineering College, Bantwala, Mangalore, Karnataka.

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In the scheme of the system, the remote I/O data

acquisition modules are developed as embedded web servers
having static IP with port 80, which can be widely used to
diversified industries such as electric power, petroleum,
chemical, metallurgy, steel, transportation and so on. This
system is mainly used for the concentrative controlling and
monitoring of a variety of electrical and thermal signals such
as voltage, current, thermal resistance, thermocouple in the
production process. Fig 3.0: Ethernet frame structure

III. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION The Ethernet block interfaces between the off-chip
Ethernet PHY using Reduced MII protocol and the on-chip
A. Hardware Description Media Independent Interface Management serial bus
The hardware boards which are built around microchip Preamble and start frame delimiter:
Ethernet controller (DP83848), Tx/Rx, MAC and PHY in one A frame starts with a 7-octet preamble and 1-octet start
small chip. A display is used to (TM12864H6CCOWA) frame delimiter (SFD) Prior to Fast Ethernet.
remote site area to monitor the value of temperature, liquid Header :
level. The display is TM12864H6CCOWA, Graphics LCM The header features destination and source MAC addresses
unit consists of 128 (segment) x 64 (common) dots dot-matrix which have 6 octets each, the Ethernet Type protocol
LCD panel, NT75451 is a single-chip dot matrix LCD driver identifier field and optional IEEE 802.1Q tag.
that can be connected directly to a microprocessor bus. Payload:
The heart of hardware part is LPC1768HPLUS EX The minimum payload is 42 octets when 802.1Q tag is
microprocessor cortex M3 board version developed by present and 46 octets when absent.[2][note 4] and the
NXP’s. this processor is 100 pin processor has well features maximum payload is 1500 octets. Non-standard jumbo
like, on board JTAG debugger, USB connector, and board has frames allow for larger maximum payload size.
a USB Device and Host Connectivity Options, Onboard 2 Frame check sequence:
Serial Ports. (UART0 and UART3), Pixels Graphical LCD The frame check sequence is a 4-octet cyclic redundancy
connectivity port Ethernet with DP83848 PHY MAC,SD check which allows detection of corrupted data within the
Card (Micro) Interface, Analog input via AD0.5 I/O pin out, entire frame.
Onboard Reset and ISP Switches, On Board Power Supply D. Communication Between Client And Server
Circuit for +5V and +3.3V (USB or external Power Source
In this how the client communicate with server shows,
input options), On Board 12 MHz Oscillator. 32.768 KHz
when client wants to communication with equipments that
Clock for RTC . Option for a CMOS Battery , Onboard 20 pin
connected with the server remotely, then it should first enters
JTAG connector for debugging /programming applications.
the configured IP address of the server and it can monitor
On board TFT Connector for 3.2inch TFT connector (with
through the web page that is on HTML page. For
touch and without touch). LED for Power Supply, USB,
communication take place first perform the CRC checksum
Ethernet and Test LED. Power Supply – DC input 7.5 - 9V/
bytes and then begins the communication process. Once the
500ma - 1A. Board Dimensions 8.6 x 9.1 cm2. Material: FR4,
start process the system allowed to collect the data from
Finish: ENIG.
various sensors through the specified particular ADC
B. Board Use Requirements channel. For different data collection the system should
The board usage purpose the PC should contain the always load the fresh HTML page having a sensors new
following requirements: data’s.
PC with ablest 2.0 GHz processing speed or higher version E. Software Description
CPU, at least 512 MB or above RAM, USB Port, Serial Port
and Ethernet Port. Windows XP OS Integrated Development
Environment (IDE). Keil software with version 4, Flash
magic for software loading in to the hardware LPC1768
board. Electrical connectors, power supply of 12 volt.
C. Ethernet Standard
A typical Ethernet frame format is shown in following
figure 3.0. A data packet on an Ethernet link is called an
Ethernet frame. A frame begins with preamble its size is 7
bytes and start frame delimiter is of 1 byte. Following which,
each Ethernet frame continues with an Ethernet header
featuring destination and source MAC addresses. The middle
section of the frame is payload data including any headers for
other protocols (e.g. Internet Protocol) carried in the frame.
The frame ends with a 32-bit cyclic redundancy check which
is used to detect any corruption of data in transit. Fig 3.1: Flash magic screen shot

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plant. A number of positive and successful initiatives are
investigated to improve the operations and utilization of
process control system, information system and
infrastructures used by the plant engineers and remote expert
support team.

Fig 3.2: Keil Microvision screenshot.

Keil microvision4, it is the compiler software using here.

For editing using a Embedded C language. The code will
written in Embedded C and this code will load in LPC1768 Fig 4.1: Web page for appliances ON and OFF
CORTEXM3 board by Flash magic software. Figure 4.0 shows that web page design for analog data
The flash magic is the software which is used to load the reading, this analog data reads from server side and
source code in processor, it communicate between PC and according to that, on web page the analog meter will show the
processor. At PC side HTML is used to design a web page. corresponding values, these values are in hexa decimal form
This HTML is interface with Ethernet (TCP/IP) protocol. In which is the client side and the same is displayed on the
Flash magic the baud rate is always 9600 and oscillation is 12 graphical display of the LPC1768 which is the server side
MHz, com port we can use either 1 or 2. shown in figure 4.2. The appliances on remote site area can
be controlled through Ethernet by simply clicking on buttons
shown in figure 4.1 as

Fig 3.3: Keil Microvision editing window.

Fig 4.2: Embedded server with display
IV. RESULT AND CONCLUSION ON and OFF buttons. This setup can be used for many
projects here we are just controlling two devices and reading
the temperature, humidity, and light sensitivity analog data.

V. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We are Thankful to the Principal of Canara Engineering
College and HOD, Department of Electronics and
communication, Canara Engineering College for their
constant encouragement in carrying this research work.

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Manjunath received his Bachelor Degree in

Telecommunication engineering and pursuing
M.Tech master Degree in Electronics from
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU),
Belgaum, Karnataka, India, respectively in 2011 and
2013 E-mail: mputted@gmail.com

Dr. Ganesh V Bhat has fourteen years experience

in teaching and research. His areas of interest include
Image Processing, Signal Processing and Open
Source Embedded Systems. He is an expert in the
area of pattern recognition. He as published over
sixteen papers in various international
conference/journals. He presently works as professor
under Dept of Electronics at Canara Engineering
College, Karnataka, India.

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