Status Monitoring

Micro controlled Status Monitoring of Battle field Tank

This project was done at Defense Institute of Advance Technology (DIAT) Pune, as a part of Bachelor Final year project. The idea was to develop an "Automated system to control and monitor various parameters of a Battle field Vehicles" both on the field and transmit this to base station, under the guidance of Colonel A.K.Sur (Director of Studies, Army) and Prof. Navin Srivastava (BVUCOE).Idea was to design a robust and reliable mechanism for fuel level measurement for vehicles having large volumes of fuel since the large level variation happens due to uneven terrains. Vehicles had old mechanical memory (spring and resistance based) system to store info of certain parameters, aim was to replace these with bigger memories to enable them to store more data important for efficient tracking in battle and to communicate all this info back to base station and remote monitoring without any human intervention on the field. The major challenge was to make this system robust, very low power and fail safe.

The project was completed successfully and all the prototypes were tested successfully. It was developed on AT89c51 microcontroller. Rest all the components were taken as mil grade components. The code was written completely in assembly language and compiled in open source compiler and debugger Pinnacle. The source code and report is present.