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Monday 5 May 2014

AT+CBC - AT Command to Get the Battery Charge of GSM / GPRS Modem

by realfinetime  |  in TTL at  11:38

If we want to get the battery charge of SIM900-TTL GSM Modem, there is an AT command for that. Here Arduino board is used to send the AT command to the Modem. Modem I used is given below. GSM Modem I used is given in this page



Circuit is done as shown in following image.

Test Command : AT+CBC=?

Upload the following program to run the command AT+CBC=? in Modem.


void setup() 
{

  Serial.begin(2400);
    
  Serial.write("AT+CBC=?\r");       //Get the battery charge
  while(1)
  {
    if(Serial.available())
    {
      Serial.write(Serial.read());  
    }   
  }
}

void loop() 
{
}



Open the Serial Monitor and change the baud to 2400. Response of the modem to this AT command will be as shown in the following figure.



Output   :    +CBC: (0-2),(1-100),(voltage) 
Output will have three parts. 

0-2 indicates the battery connection status (bcs).
     if bcs =0, Mobile Equipment (ME) is not charging.
     if bcs =1, Mobile Equipment (ME) is charging.
     if bcs =2, Charging has finished.

1-100 indicates the battery charge level (bcl).
    1...100 : battery has 1-100 percent of capacity remaining.

voltage indicates the Battery Voltage in millivolts.


Execution command  : AT+CBC

Upload the following program to run the execution command AT+CBC.


void setup() 
{

  Serial.begin(2400);
    
  Serial.write("AT+CBC\r");       //Get the battery charge
  while(1)
  {
    if(Serial.available())
    {
      Serial.write(Serial.read());  
    }   
  }
}

void loop() 
{
}



Open the Serial Monitor and change the baud to 2400. Output of the above program will be as shown in following figure.



Output : +CBC: 0,99,4190

From the above output, we can conclude that,
    Mobile Equipment is not charging because bcs = 0.
    Battery has 99 percent of capacity remaining because bcl = 98.
    Battery Voltage is 4190mV.

Important : This command is hardware dependant and only be used when the battery is charging.

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