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In this tutorial we will learn how the HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor works and how to use it with Arduino. This is the most popular sensor for measuring distance and making obstacle avoiding robots with Arduino.

The sensor has 4 pins. VCC and GND go to 5V and GND pins on the Arduino, and the Trig and Echo go to any digital Arduino pin. Using the Trig pin we send the ultrasound wave from the transmitter, and with the Echo pin we listen for the reflected signal.

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In order to generate the ultrasound we need to set the Trig pin on a High State for 10 s. That will send out an 8 cycle ultrasonic burst which will travel at the speed of sound. The Echo pins goes high right away after that 8 cycle ultrasonic burst is sent, and it starts listening or waiting for that wave to be reflected from an object.

If we receive a reflected pulse, the Echo pin will go down sooner than those 38ms. According to the amount of time the Echo pin was HIGH, we can determine the distance the sound wave traveled, thus the distance from the sensor to the object.

In this case, we need this set to it HIGH, as the HC-SR04 sensors sets the Echo pin to High after sending the 8 cycle ultrasonic burst from the transmitter. This actually starts the timing and once we receive the reflected sound wave the Echo pin will go to Low which stops the timing. At the end the function will return the length of the pulse in microseconds.

In the previously explained code we manually triggered the sensor and measured the received signal pulse duration. Then according to those results we calculated the distance based on it. Using the NewPing library we can get the distance with just a single line of code.

The HC-SR04 sensor is fairly accurate, but as it work depends on the speed of sound, for more accurate results we should also take the air temperature into consideration. The speed of sound can significantly change as the air temperature changes. For example, at 20C, the speed of sound is around 340m/s, but at -20C the speed of sound is around 315m/s. The relative humidity affects the speed as well.

So, first we are reading the temperature and humidity values from the DHT22 sensor, and then use those values to calculate the speed of sound. Then we get the duration the sound wave travel in microseconds, convert them to seconds and calculate the distance from the sensor to the objects in centimeters.

Hey, well you would need to measure three dimensions, width, length and depth and multiply them to get the volume. Check my Arduino Range Measurer project where I showed something similar, or how to measure area using this sensor.

Hi there. Well sorry but all I can say is to check my tutorial on app inventor and in combination with this tutorial, make the project on your own.

My work is teaching the basics of a particular sensor, module or a program, and your are that one that should use the knowledge gained from those tutorials to make a specific project.

Cheers!

Dear, it possible the ultrasonic can detect the water leakage on the water pipe? mean the ultrasonic can receive the frequency or other value to show that when the water pipe has leakage, the value will changing? thanks

Dear Dejan, I am building a simple robot with this sensor. The problem is this: I want to avoid a collision at a distance of about 50 cm. How do I implement in code this value in the simple software I made. (the robot is programmed to drive an eight) with simple code as digitalWrite HIGH or LOW on two pins.

Can u email me or update the diagram of this project by adding the connections for the 162 lcd green screen ty in advance this website was a real help to me as my first arduino project and I use arduino uno is that OK or I have to change something in ue given project waiting for a quick response:)

The problem might be that you are using Arduino DUE, which has 3.3V pins and the ultrasonic sensors is working with 5V. Try using an resistor at the echo pin, as the 3.3V are fine for the Trig pin, but the Echo pin of the sensor will output 5V to your Arduino DUI which might damage it.

Some manufacturers provide the ultrasonic sensor that has 3 pins. TRIG signal and ECHO signal are in the same pin. In this case, we need to use only one Arduino's pin for both purposes: generating a pulse to the sensor and measuring pulse from the sensor.

The SEN136B5B is an ultrasonic range finder from Seeedstudio. It detects the distance of the closest object in front of the sensor (from 3 cm up to 400 cm). It works by sending out a burst of ultrasound and listening for the echo when it bounces off of an object. It pings the obstacles with ultrasound. The Arduino board sends a short pulse to trigger the detection, then listens for a pulse on the same pin using the pulseIn() function. The duration of this second pulse is equal to the time taken by the ultrasound to travel to the object and back to the sensor. Using the speed of sound, this time can be converted to distance.

The operation is not affected by sunlight or black material, although acoustically, soft materials like cloth can be difficult to detect. It comes complete with ultrasonic transmitter and receiver module.

The HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor uses sonar to determine the distance to an object. This sensor reads from 2cm to 400cm (0.8inch to 157inch) with an accuracy of 0.3cm (0.1inches), which is good for most hobbyist projects. In addition, this particular module comes with ultrasonic transmitter and receiver modules.

This sensor is very popular among Arduino tinkerers. So, here we provide an example of how to use the HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor with the Arduino. In this project, the ultrasonic sensor reads and writes the distance to an object in the serial monitor.

Hello all, just got my first arduino, and i have this working. but for my project i need a second ultrasonic sensor. and i have no idea how to do that.

ive added a triggerpin and an echo pin in the code for the second sensor, but how do i define to the code there are 2 sensors? do i need to copy the whole code again for the second sensor? or can the code run for both at the same time?

Hi . and thanks for this article .

i have a question about the sensor . after one trigger does it continue to measure the distance , i mean if we want it to measure the distance for some time , do we need to send the trigger signal continuously?

ha a same question i hope u may help me out

i have even not connected the trig pin to the arduino and only the echo is connected but even though i am getting the echo valuse can u please justify this to me

thanks in advance

The sensors are cheap enough so the easy way to see if a sensor is working is to try another one. I have used maybe 20 of them without any problems until the other day when one stopped working. I swapped it and the replacement worked. Nothing was obviously wrong with the bad sensor but if I held it, it started working again so I resoldered the joints on the two transducer cans and the connector and now it works again.

I was wondering if you have ever used the Ultrasonic sensor to control a music shield? Im currently attempting this project and want the song to change depending on how far away you are from the sensor, just using 2 songs though.

Any help will be muchly appreciated!

I am ordered over 100 of these sensors for a class, and well over 75% have this issue, regardless of which code, library, or timing I am using. A previous set of 100+ ordered last year do not have this issue, and the ticking cannot be heard.

Flicking it or resetting the power seems to fix the problem until I max out the range or change distance quickly again.

Did you find a solution or cause to the issue?

I have the same problem that Sam Khoury has. Once in a while the sensor goes into a mode where the echo pulse is very sharp indicating almost zero distance and the only way to recover from this is to disconnect the sensor and reconnect it. I also found that when the repetition of trigger is faster than 700ms this type of problem crops up. Presently I use a repetition interval of 3 to 4seconds.

I wrote my own tutorial based on this sensor and a Servo Motor. Your tutorial was very helpful in accomplishing that, so if you have time, I would appreciate your feedback: Arduino Servo Sweet Tutorial

They are not even consistent. i bought 10 of the 80 cent modules and 5 of them are very, very unstable and lock up very easily. Others only lock up occasionally. Another oddity (that others have also pointed out) is that sometimes if they lock up if you touch them with your finger they unlock, or even if you snap your fingers close to them. Apparently this finally triggers the sensor to sense a ping.

Hi David,

I can also confirm, waht was said about the cheap HC-SR04. It locks up very fast and can only be resetted by power off/on.

Mine also shows the effect described before, like when you cover the sensor with your finger, its stops immediately. Bought 10 of these and tested 2 so far, both are behaving the same. Seems to be just crap from china. Should have bought the real ones.

Have tested it with 5 different scripts, motor shield v1 and v2, but it all comes down to the sensor failing.

Cheers, Matthias

The arduino does the calculation for the distance. If you just use the echo pin, it will be outputting a high on every echo irrespective of the distance. That may not give you any distance based control but your alarm device may get continuously triggered irrespective of distance.

You probably ought to buy an Arduino Uno and an Ultrasonic sensor and then work through the examples here. You will find that you only need the PC connected for programming the Arduino or for displaying the distance measurement, (if that is what you want to do).

Once you program and test small arduino Nano model and then you dont need PC. You have to power arduino and HC-SR04 with 5v which you can do with small batteries. Arduino will need PC only when you are uploading and testing the program. 006ab0faaa