DATA ACQUISITIONS AND SIGNAL CONDITIONING CIRCUITS IN THE INDUSTRY

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STUDENT NAME: NAOMI SUÑGA

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 Data
Acquisition
The process of sampling signals that measure
real world physical conditions and converting
the resulting samples into digital numeric
values that can be manipulated by a computer.

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Data Acquisition
It typically convert analog waveform into digital values for processing.
Its components includes; (Fig.
One, Sensors, to convert physical parameters to electrical signal.
wo, Signal Conditioning, to convert sensor signals into a form that can be converted to digital values.
Three, ADC or Analog-to-Digital Converters, to convert condition sensor signals to digital values.

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Data Acquisition
Advantages of Data Acquisition Disadvantages of Data Acquisition

• Reduced data redundancy. • Database systems are complex, difficult, and

• Reduced updating errors and increased time-consuming to design Substantial
consistency hardware and software start-up costs.
• Greater data integrity and independence • Damage to database affects virtually all
from applications programs. applications programs.
• Improved data access to users through use of • Extensive conversion costs in moving form
host and query languages. a file-based system to a database system
• Improved data security. Initial training required for all programmers
• Reduced data entry, storage, and retrieval and users.
costs.
• Facilitated development of new applications
program.

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 Application of Data Acquisition
in the Industry

TEMPERATURE
SENSOR
With the use of Data
Acquisition for measuring in
which was transformed by
sensory devices in a form that
can be sampled to measure
temperature using an
embedded design.

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 FLUID FLOW

Data Acquisition has different

features which includes the
control windows, calculation
blocks, connections and for
measuring temperature, flow
or fluid flow, levels and
converting them into on-screen
displays.

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 PRESSURE
SENSOR
Data Acquisition was used to
monitoring and measuring
pressure in uses of
piezoelectric or piezoresistive
or sensor then converts this
displacement into an electrical
output such as voltage or
current.

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 SOUND
RECORDER
Sound Recorder was used for
recording sounds in a certain
device. Data Acquisition as a
device was used to acquire
data from a microphone.

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 CUTTING FORCE

Cutting force is a force that is

generated by cutting tool as it
machines the workpiece. Data
Acquisition was used for
gathering the data of the
specific force applied from a
used material or tool.
It can also be a force sensor.

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 ULTRACENTRIFUGE
Ultracentrifuges are
commonly used in molecular
biology, biochemistry, and cell
biology. By using Data
Acquisition, it can acquire
light intensity readings in
which to determine the
concentration distributions.

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 PLANTS
Cultivating plants was in the
process of needing enough
sunlight or light intensity
which conserve its soil through
vegetation. Through data
acquisition, light intensity
coming to the plants can be
measured to determine the
suitability of soil conservation
in plants.

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 Signal Conditioning
Circuits
a process of data acquisition, and an instrument
called a signal conditioner is used to perform
this process. This instrument converts one type
of electrical or mechanical signal (input-signal)
into another (output-signal).

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 Signal Conditioning Circuits
It makes the transducers in its good quality and it is often between transducers and ADC. Its
circuitry can include amplification/attenuation, filtering, Wheatstone bridge completion,
excitation, linearization, calibration, and cold-junction-compensation (CJC). It protects the
equipment from potential hazards that may come through the signal path, amplifies the input
signal strength or amplitude, it also contains valid data and eliminates certain noises.

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 Signal Conditioning Circuits
Advantages of Data Acquisition

• Flexibility, it allows the signal conditioner to process a wider range of any signal
types in which can also lead you to more precision and calibration for the sensor.
Also, it can increase the ability to maintain, change signal conditions or replacing of
components without affecting the system.
• Isolation, it helps in filtering the unwanted noise along the signal path and eliminate
any electrostatic noise that can damage the devices connected to the sensor.
• Amplification, it can increase the resolution of the measurement, increases the input
sensor amplitude with low voltage output sensors.
• Linearization, it linearly aligned the signals to the physical measurement.
• Filtering, to eliminate unwanted frequencies for a consistent signal.
• Excitation, it has the stability and accuracy to affect the active sensors.

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Application of Data Acquisition
in the Industry

THERMOCOUPLES

Thermocouples are used to

measure temperature.
Signal Conditioning was used
for amplification of voltage
signals in which thermocouples
generate very low voltage
signals.

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THERMOCOUPLES

It is widely used for gas

turbines, diesel engines, kilns,
flame sensors, or any gas-
powered appliances.

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 STRAIN GAUGE

With Strain Gauge having a

small quantity, Signal
Conditioning circuit like
Wheatstone Bridge can measure
it.
Strain Gauge is a device used to
measure the strain of an object
which is widely used in
industrial machine and testing
equipment like fans, generators,
propellers, etc.

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 STRAIN GAUGE
This equipment is found in
power plants, ships, refineries,
automobiles and industry at
large.

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 LINEAR VARIABLE
DIFFERENTIAL
TRANSFORMER (LVDT)
LVDT is an electromechanical sensor
used to convert mechanical motion or
vibrations, specifically rectilinear
motion, into a variable electrical
current, voltage or electric signals, and
the reverse. With Signal Conditioning,
it generate a sinusoidal signal as an
excitation source for the primary coil in
which the output of the LVDT is an AC
waveform.

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 LINEAR VARIABLE
DIFFERENTIAL
TRANSFORMER (LVDT)
It is becoming the preferred technology
for critical and reliable linear
displacement measurements in
industrial, military, aerospace, subsea,
downhole drilling, nuclear power and
process control applications.

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 REFERENCES
http://www.gage-applied.com/data-
acquisition/applications/index.htm
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ph/innovations/white-papers/06/how-to-
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sensors.html
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/
2882_001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=d7y9xg-Bc18
https://www.ni.com/en-
ph/innovations/white-
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displacement-with-lvdts.html
https://medium.com/@encardio/strain-
gauge-principle-types-features-and-
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https://www.mccdaq.com/data-acquisition

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