Introduction: Integrate BH1750 Ambient Light Sensor With Arduino

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Many display devices nowadays have Ambient Light sensors to adjust the brightness automatically. Let's see how we integrate it with Arduino.

Supplies

Hardware Components

BH1750 Ambient Light Sensor

Arduino Uno

LCD 16X2

Connecting wires

Software Components

Arduino IDE

Step 1: About Project

Basically BH1750 is a Digital Ambient Light Sensor or we can call it as Light Intensity Sensor, which can be utilized to auto adjust the brightness of the display in mobiles, LCD displays, or turn on/off the headlights in cars depends on the external lighting conditions.

The sensor utilizes I2C serial communication protocol which does it simpler to use with microcontrollers. For I2C communication it has SDI as well as SDA pins.

The output of this sensor is in LUX, so it will not need any calculations.
As we know Lux is the unit to estimate Light intensity. It calculates the intensity as per the amount of light hitting on a specific area. This sensor can also operate individually without any external component.

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Step 2:

#include #include int BH1750address = 0x23; byte buff[2]; LiquidCrystal lcd (7,6,5,4,3,2); //RS, E, D4, D5, D6, D7 void setup() { Wire.begin(); //Serial.begin(9600); lcd.begin(16,2); lcd.print(" BH1750 Light "); lcd.setCursor(0,1); lcd.print("Intensity Sensor"); delay(2000); } void loop() { int i; uint16_t value=0; BH1750_Init(BH1750address); delay(200); if(2==BH1750_Read(BH1750address)) { value=((buff[0]<<8)|buff[1])/1.2; lcd.clear(); lcd.print("Intensity in LUX"); lcd.setCursor(6,1); lcd.print(value); //Serial.print(val); //Serial.println("[lux]"); } delay(150); } int BH1750_Read(int address) { int i=0; Wire.beginTransmission(address); Wire.requestFrom(address, 2); while(Wire.available()) { buff[i] = Wire.read(); i++; } Wire.endTransmission(); return i; } void BH1750_Init(int address) { Wire.beginTransmission(address); Wire.write(0x10); Wire.endTransmission(); }