Automatic Power Control Unit (APCU)
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2010
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UMT Lahore
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The advent of new high-speed technologies and the growing computer capacity have provided realistic opportunities for new cost-effective technologies and the realization of new methods of innovation. This technical improvement, together with the need for high-performance techniques, has created faster, more accurate, and more intelligent products using new drives and advanced control algorithms.
Our project underlines and highlights the importance of a hospital environment in which life-saving equipment operates without any interruption. Life-saving equipment and rooms in hospitals (ICU and operation theatre) are on backup systems such as UPS and are then supported by generators, i.e., petrol, diesel, or gas. The less urgent systems are on secondary power backup and come online when the generators are switched on, and their priorities can be switched. We have demonstrated a similar environment to that of a working hospital, which undergoes the same operational needs. To make the system more advanced and remove the human element, we have used a microcontroller 80C51, which performs all the operational work. Our concept revolves around 12 volts DC, which can later be enhanced to 220 volts DC as per needs and requirements.