GPS based clock using pic microcontroller : This project is about how to design a GPS based clock using pic microcontroller and how to make a universal clock using pic18f452 microcontroller. First of all we will see what is GPS based universal digital clock and what are it applications. GPS based clock can be used to make universal digital clock with provides current time according to your location unlike traditional watches where you have to adjust time manually when you go from one region to another. This clock can adjust it time automatically according to your position with the help of GPS module.
How GPS based clock works?
There are many satellites available in our space which can be used to get your ordinates like latitude, amplitude, date and time. I have already posted a article on how interface GPS module with pic microcontroller. In which I have explained how to get co ordinates of your current location from any available satellite. But satellite provides us complete information which includes latitude, amplitude, date and time. So we can get date and time from this information also.
How to design GPS based clock?
GPS has many application in vehicle tracking system, vehicle theft intimation system and GPS based data loggers. But GPS based clock can be used for many applications like military missions, railway station and bus stations and many other fields. GPS module can provide you data from more than 10 satellites but you can choose any satellite. In this project, I have used $GPGGA satellite to design digital clock. But you can use any other satellite if you want. But to do so you have to make changes in code. We will receive data from $GPGGA satellite in the form of string as shown below:
$GPGGA,001038.00,3334.2313457,N,11211.0576940,W,2,04,5.4,354.682,M,-26.574,M,7.0,0138*79
I will explain this string in later part of this article. I have used pic18F452 microcontroller to receive data from GPS receiver. Holux M-89 GPS module is used as a GPS receiver. whenever we turn on this module by supplying power to it, it will start getting data from all available satellites. Data received by GPS receiver will be available at transmit pin of GPS module. You can receive this data with pic microcontroller using serial communication. Date received is shown below:
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