07-12-2012, 11:31 AM
Mall Automation
ABSTRACT
A shopping mall or shopping center is a building or set of buildings that contain a
variety of retail units, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from
unit to unit.
Mall Automation means that few advanced facilities which are provided inside the
mall for the customer’s convenience. This project aims to create a unique Mall Automation
having varieties of features. Normally we use to see that in shopping malls so many things
are there like automatic doors, escalators, hoardings, different departments, zones
lightening etc.
Rather we use to enjoy with such type of facilities inside the mall but even we does
not know the technique behind these, so that through this project we are retracting unique
hidden technology.
Apart from these this project depicts some advanced features and adds some extra
mechanisms to control different devices as well as security systems.
In this project of ours we wish to include the following features:
• Using microcontroller to control the different devices
• Sensors for security purpose
• Sensor based door control mechanism
• Zone lightening system
• Automatic escalator system
• Hoarding mechanism for advertisement
• Relay mechanism for devices
• PC controlling system
• Display messaging system
As soon as customer enters in the mall, at the entrance human sensors are placed to
detect the person then gate opens automatically and devices are running according to the
requirement. There is a beautiful arrangement of zones lightening which can be controlled.
Hoarding is provided inside the campus of the mall for advertisement purpose which
can be controlled in such a way that every few seconds it would be moving continuously.
Security system has been provided, for example: - glass breaking sensors through
which if by any reason glass will be broken, then the signal will be reaching in the control
room and the rescue operation can be informed to avoid any type of bad incidents and
maintenance.