Getting LED Lights ON/OFF In Arduino When Light Intensity Changes

Introduction

 

This article is for developers interested in the Internet of Things. I'll describe an Arduino project with automated lights that turn ON/OFF with a weather change as per the light intensity in LDR.

 

Requirements

1. Arduino Uno
2. Arduino Software
3. One LED light “5MM”
4. 300 Ohm resister (2)
5. Jumper wire only five (Male to Male)
6. Bread broad
7. LDR (Light Dependent Resistor)

Steps to follow,

 

Step 1

 

First, connect the Arduino with the laptop or computer. Light blinks in the Arduino board.

 

 

Step 2

 

If you don’t have Arduino software take a look at this website

 

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

 

 

Then after the installation process is complete, this page will appear on your screen

 

 

Step 3

 

Then Click TOOL- Select BOARD - Then press ARDUINO/GENUINO UNO R3

 

Again Select TOOL - Select a PORT- COM3 ARDUINO UNO

 

 

Step 4

 

I have given a source code you can use this or you can use your own source code.

 

 

Source Code 

constintledPin = 13;
constintldrPin = A0;
void setup() {
    Serial.begin(9600);
    pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); //initialize the LED pin as an output
    pinMode(ldrPin, INPUT);
}
void loop() {
    intldrStatus = analogRead(ldrPin); //read the status of the LDR value
    if (ldrStatus <= 200) -- - {
        digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);
        Serial.println("LDR is DARK, LED and BUZZER is ON");
    }
    else {
        digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); //turn LED off
        Serial.println("---------------");
    }
}

Step 5

 

Then click the verify button, to verify the program coding.

 

 

Automatic lights on and off Circuit diagram using LDR with the weather change.

 

 

Then click this button to upload.

 

 

When lights in my room are on the light in the bread broad is also off

 

 

These are the comments found in the dashboard of Arduino Software when Light in the breadboard is Off

 

 

When Room Lights are OFF, LDR sensor resistance becomes very high and with the help of our program Lights in the Breadboard turns ON.

 

 

These are the comments found in the dashboard of the Arduino Software when the light in the breadboard is On.

 

 

Weather change LDR resistance changes. The LED glows when light intensity is less and turns OFF when light intensity is high. This program is very simple to handle.

 

Summary

 

An Arduino project with Automated lights ON/OFF with Weather change is hence created and executed.

 

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