RFID based Ration Machine

Project Description:

1. Arduino Uno: The digital and analog input/output pins equipped in this board can be interfaced to various expansion boards and other circuits. Serial communication interface is a feature in this board, including USB which will be used to load the programs from computer.
2. Servo Motors: A servomotor is a closed-loop servomechanism that uses position feedback to control its motion and final position. The input to its control is a signal (either analogue or digital) representing the position
3. RFID: Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. The tags contain electronically-stored information.
4. Wi-Fi Module : ESP8266 Wi-Fi module is generally used to establish the wireless communication between the devices. But this module is not capable of 5-3V logic shifting and will require an external logic level converter.
5. Motor Driver: Generally the Arduino board is not capable of providing required amount of current for running the motors. So we use a device called Motor Driver which will provide sufficient current for driving the motors.

Project Implementation:

1. Interface RFID Reader, Wi-Fi module and servo motors with Arduino.
2. Power the components and Upload the code.
3. Scan the RFID and select the items you need.
4. Once money is paid, items will be available from the machine.
5. All the data regarding the items you collected will be updated in the remote server for further analysis through Wi-Fi module.

Software requirements:

1. Arduino IDE : You will be needing Arduino IDE software to write and upload the programming logic onto the Arduino Uno board
2. Thingspeak : Also, you need to create an account in the ThinkSpeak IoT platform to integrate the system onto the cloud and store the data online

• Arduino Uno
• RFID
• WiFi
• Servo Motor
• Motor Driver

• RFID
• IoT
• Arduino