A Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System: How to Prevent Systematic Errors in the Design Phase through the Combined Use of Additive Manufacturing and Thermographic Techniques
ITC-CNR, Construction Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Italy, Via Lombardia, 49, 20098 San Giuliano Milanese (MI), Italy
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Sensors 2017, 17(4), 828; https://doi.org/10.3390/s17040828
Received: 8 March 2017 / Revised: 23 March 2017 / Accepted: 6 April 2017 / Published: 11 April 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications)
Abstract
nEMoS (nano Environmental Monitoring System) is a 3D-printed device built following the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach. It can be connected to the web and it can be used to assess indoor environmental quality (IEQ). It is built using some low-cost sensors connected to an Arduino microcontroller board. The device is assembled in a small-sized case and both thermohygrometric sensors used to measure the air temperature and relative humidity, and the globe thermometer used to measure the radiant temperature, can be subject to thermal effects due to overheating of some nearby components. A thermographic analysis was made to rule out this possibility. The paper shows how the pervasive technique of additive manufacturing can be combined with the more traditional thermographic techniques to redesign the case and to verify the accuracy of the optimized system in order to prevent instrumental systematic errors in terms of the difference between experimental and actual values of the above-mentioned environmental parameters. View Full-TextKeywords:
indoor environmental quality; indoor air quality; indoor thermal comfort quality; internet of things; DIY; IoT; nearable; environmental monitoring system; thermography; additive manufacturing
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Salamone, F.; Danza, L.; Meroni, I.; Pollastro, M.C. A Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System: How to Prevent Systematic Errors in the Design Phase through the Combined Use of Additive Manufacturing and Thermographic Techniques. Sensors 2017, 17, 828.
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