A LOW COST REMOTE DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNET AND MICROCONTROLLER FOR WIND MEASUREMENT
Keywords:
Wind measurement, microcontroller, Internet, remote data acquisition systemAbstract
There are more and more demands for measuring variables in various engineering activities and collecting the measurement data from distant observation sites such as wind measurements from different far-away masts. In turn, a remote data acquisition system is required for such various customized tasks. It is a fact that microcontrollers featuring high-performance I/O hardware and software are quite flexibly developed in product markets while Internet technology is now available and easily accessible for a world-wide network. For a technical contribution, this paper presents the complete development of a low cost, easy to implement, remote data acquisition system embedded on a microcontroller so as to gain measurement data from remote measurement sites through the Internet network with the techniques on the Transmission Communication Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Additionally, the experimental results of real-time implementation show that the proposed techniques have not only been flexibly developed byusingan available low-cost microcontroller but also are feasible with current Internet traffic for acquiring any remote measurement data where an Internet connection is available.
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