MICROCONTROLLER BASED TEMPERATURE DATA LOGGER WITH SD CARD STORAGE: SD CARD TEMPERATURE DATA LOGGER

by Dogan Ibrahim

Temperature is basically the measurement of how hot or cold something is, and it is one of the fundamental entities in any kind of process control. Temperature is also a measure of the average kinetic energy of particles in a system. Adding heat to a system increases the kinetic energy of its particles and hence an increase in the temperature of the system. Temperature is easily measured using a thermometer. Nowadays, thermometers come in all shapes and sizes. In computer based automated process control applications where it may be required to control the temperature of a plant, it is necessary to interface the thermometer to the computer. This is usually done either by using analog temperature sensor devices such as thermistors, thermocouples, RTD devices etc. and then converting the outputs into digital format using A/D converters, or digital sensors, such as semiconductor sensor chips are used with direct interface to the computer. This book is about the design of a microcontroller based multichannel temperature logging device with SD card storage.

92 pages, Paperback

Published January 10, 2009

About the author

Prof. Dr. Dogan Ibrahim is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He is the author of over 60 technical books, published by international famous publishers, such as Wiley, Butterworth, and Newnes. In addition, he is the author of over 250 technical papers, published in journals, and presented in seminars.