Real time rain sensing and wind shield wiper control system with cloud computing and geotagging applications

Abstract

Recent developments in the automobile industry has paved a way for drastic increase in the use of vehicles for transportation and luxury cars. Many traditional systems use windshield wipers which works intermittently and with variable speeds during rain. In majority of the vehicles an adjustable lever near the steering of the driver has to be operated by the driver to control the windshield wiper(s). This change of lever position will distract the driver’s attention, more so during poor visibility that may lead to untoward incidents. To overcome the above problem, the windshield’s working in this scenario needs to be modified to fully automatic. In this paper, we have designed and developed an inexpensive and fully automatic windshield wiper system using Texas instruments CC3200 XL-Launchpad, Rain sensor YL-63, GSM SIM900A Module and Thing speak cloud. Further, the internet connectivity in the developed hardware will send messages to the connected cars/mobiles about the rain and the location of the vehicle can easily be tracked using Geotagging.