Humidity & Temperature Sensor

• The DHT-11 is a digital-output relative

humidity and temperature sensor. It uses a
capacitive humidity sensor and a thermistor to
measure the surrounding air. Compared to the
DHT22, this sensor is less precise, less
accurate and works in a smaller range of
temperature and humidity, but its smaller and
less expensive.
 Introducing the DHT11 and DHT22
Sensors
• The DHT11 and DHT22 sensors are used to
measure temperature and relative humidity.
These are very popular among makers and
electronics hobbyists.
• These sensors contain a chip that does analog
to digital conversion and spit out a digital
signal with the temperature and humidity.
This makes them very easy to use with any
microcontroller.
 DHT11 vs DHT22

DHT11
DHT22

Temperature range 0 to 50 ºC +/-2 ºC -40 to 80 ºC +/-0.5ºC

Humidity range 20 to 90% +/-5% 0 to 100% +/-2%
Humidity: 1% Humidity: 0.1%
Resolution
Temperature: 1ºC Temperature: 0.1ºC
Operating voltage 3 – 5.5 V DC 3 – 6 V DC
Current supply 0.5 – 2.5 mA 1 – 1.5 mA
Sampling period 1 second 2 seconds
Price $1 to $5 $4 to $10
 What is humidity?

• Humidity is the water vapor around you mixed

with air. It is measured in per cents. So, if the
humidity is 60 per cent(which is the average
humidity), then 60 per cent of the air around you
is water vapor. If it is 100%, then it means either
the sensor is not correct, the sensor is
broken/damaged, the Arduino crashed, the
Arduino can't receive any signal, there's an error
in the code or you're underwater. If it's 0%, it
means all the reasons above except the last one,
you're in space or you're in the middle of a
dessert.
 Type of Sesor
• There are two different
versions of the DHT11 you
might come across. One type
has four pins, and the other
type has three pins and is
mounted to a small PCB. The
PCB mounted version is nice
because it includes a surface
mounted 10K Ohm pull up
resistor for the signal line.
Here are the pin outs for
both versions:
 DHT Pinout

DHT pin Connect to

1 5V
Any digital GPIO; also connect a
2
10k Ohm pull-up resistor
3 Don’t connect
4 GND
 Installing Libraries

• To read from the DHT sensor, we’ll use the DHT

library from Adafruit. To use this library you also
need to install the Adafruit Unified Sensor library.
Follow the next steps to install those libraries.
• Open your Arduino IDE and go
to Sketch > Include Library > Manage Libraries.
The Library Manager should open.
• Search for “DHT” on the Search box and install
the DHT library from Adafruit.
• After installing the DHT library from Adafruit,
type “Adafruit Unified Sensor” in the search
box. Scroll all the way down to find the library
and install it.