Energy efficient control and monitoring system for sewing machine in garment section

Textile mills are facing energy wastage problem in their garment section. Most of the sewing machines of garment section are arranged in columns and all station lights are kept ON continuously even when just one worker is working. Moreover, garment sectors are unable to monitor the efficiency of their machines and workers. Garment sections need an energy efficient control and monitoring system for their workers. Cost is an actual factor for them. To achieve this goal, different sensing mechanism has been tried but all of them have their intermittencies. Then current sensing mechanism is designed, this method is based on flux control method. Flux of the Sewing machines sensed for the operating and controlling of the station light and optional fan. Whenever the worker starts machine, light and optional fan will turn ON and it will ON until the worker not work in the desirable specified time. This time delay and machine controlling is done through 8051 microcontroller. The complete system module makes master slave mechanism. Data transfer to computer is accomplished through microcontroller, serial communication and R.F transmitter. The receiver will receive data which are transmitted to computer using serial communication (MAX232). The data receiving protocol will be running there. This data is saved in an excel document which contains the complete record of the working time of the machines.