An umbrella is much needed product in rainy season. The problems associated with umbrellas are that it needs to be carried separately along with our other stuff and it occupies one hand all the time. Also, umbrellas are to be kept separately in buckets which lead to people forgetting about umbrella in many cases and losing them. Well, we here design a smart solution to all umbrella related problems with a customized solution. Our proposed device is a bag pack that has an integrated umbrella with auto rain sensing. The umbrella does not need to be carried separately and both hands of the user are free even when the umbrella is open. Even opening the umbrella is an automatic operation with no manual efforts needed.

This rain sensing modern umbrella provides the following advantages:

• Hands free usage
• Bag attached umbrella no need to carry separately
• No risk of forgetting or loosing umbrella
• Rain sensing feature for automatic opening
• Protects from rain as well as sunlight as needed

The modern umbrella consists of servo motorized system with transparent plastic cover with rain sensor and Arduino controller integrated in a bapack. The rain sensing umbrella system is a unique modern-day gadget that changes the way umbrella is used.   The rain sensor is used to detect rain fall. If rainfall is detected, the sensor sends trigger to the arduino controller. The arduino now operates the servo motors to open the small umbrella to protect bag from rain.  

Components:

• Power supply.
• Arduino UNO.
• Rain sensor.
• LED indicator.
• Two servo motors.

Software’s used:

• Embedded C language.
• Arduino IDE studio for dumping the code into the microcontroller.
• Express SCH for Circuit design.

     

     

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