using optical gates to count how many peapole are in a room with(b83609)

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1

Heres my code so far.

int encoder1_pin = 2;
int encoder2_pin = 4;
unsigned int bentiek;
#define RELAY1  7
#define RELAY2  6
void setup() {
 // put your setup code here, to run once:
 pinMode(encoder1_pin, INPUT);
 pinMode(encoder2_pin, INPUT);
 bentiek=0;
 Serial.begin(9600);
 pinMode(RELAY1, OUTPUT);   
 
}
void loop() {
 if(encoder1_pin == LOW){
   if(encoder2_pin == LOW){
     bentiek + 1;
   }else{digitalWrite(RELAY2,0);
          delay(10000);
          digitalWrite(RELAY2,1);};
 }
 if(encoder2_pin == LOW){
   if(encoder1_pin == LOW){
     bentiek - 1; 
   } else{digitalWrite(RELAY2,0);
          delay(10000);
          digitalWrite(RELAY2,1);};
 };
if(bentiek == 0 ){digitalWrite(RELAY1,0);} else  {delay(60000);
 digitalWrite(RELAY1,1);}
Serial.print (bentiek
                 );
}

(bentiek stands for peapole inside the room )
Heres the data sheet: www.ekt2.com/pdf/412_CH_SMART_SHAFT_ENCODER_KIT.pdf
And the code also sets of a second relay that turns on a siren if someone has onli gone half way through or if another peolple started entering the room before the other one had gone through the second gate.
Sory but i for some reson cant upload a pictere of the wiraing.

2

May be describe how this code is supposed to work and what you are doing with the relays. Supply a picture of how it is wired up and explain your choice of B83609 sensors for counting people in a room.

3

Please post a link to the datasheet for the B83609.

Also tell us what your program actually does when you run it and what you want it to do that is different.

...R

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4

The delays prevent your code from working properly.

Answer to yourself:

  • How many sensors can be covered by one person?
  • How do the signals change if one person goes through, goes back, a second person enters...

What you need is a state machine, with states like
empty, one_in, one_through, one_back, two_in

Then determine whether changes in the sensor values allow to determine the new state of that machine, and to count the persons properly.

5

Tanks DrDiettrich!
For the sugeston but is there a way to make the code so if someone there was a person in the room but left that the relay only turns of whena cearin time has pased

6

That's possible, of course. But before that you should implement the state machine, which is the base for all further actions.