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Module 6
Module 6
Digital
Signal is either ON or OFF
Example: light switch.
A/D Converter:
Sampling Rate
16 Samples/cycle
Analog 4 Samples/cycle
Input
8 Samples/cycle
A/D Converter:
Sampling Rate
• Aliasing.
Acquired signal gets distorted if sampling
rate is too small.
A/D Converter:
Range
• Minimum and maximum voltage levels that the
A/D converter can quantize
• Environmental monitoring
• Road traffic counting.
• Unattended soil moisture level recording.
• Motor Racing
• Temperature, Humidity and Power use for Heating and Air
conditioning efficiency studies.
• Unattended weather station recording
• Measure temperatures (humidity, etc) of perishables
during shipments
• Tank level monitoring.
Data Recovery and Transfer
• Data can be recovered from data acquisition systems in
various ways :
AC Voltage/Current
Light On/Off
Shock/Acceleration
Bridge/Strain/Load/Pressure
Motor On/Off
Sound
Dew point
PH Pressure
Temperature
Pictures of data loggers:
Types of data loggers:
• Miniature Single Input Data Loggers
Miniature single input data loggers are generally low cost loggers
dedicated to a specific input type. These types of data loggers are
often used in the transportation industry. A typical application would
be to include a temperature data logger in a shipment of food
products to insure that the food temperature does not exceed
acceptable limits. In addition to temperature miniature data loggers
are available for a large variety of input types.
Types of data loggers:
• Fixed Mount Multi-Channel Data Loggers
Fixed input loggers have a fixed number of input channels
which are generally dedicated for a specific type of input.
OMEGA offers fixed input data loggers ranging from one to 8
channels.