Open source data logger for low-cost environmental monitoring

Open source data logger for low-cost environmental monitoring

The increasing transformation of biodiversity into a data-intensive science has seen numerous independent systems linked and aggregated into the current landscape of biodiversity informatics. This paper outlines how we can move forward with this programme, incorporating real time environmental monitoring into our methodology using low-power and low-cost computing platforms.

Data Logger Fundamentals for Environmental Monitoring Applications

A data logger is an electronic instrument that records environmental parameters such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, light intensity, water level and water quality over time. Typically, data loggers are compact, battery-powered devices that are equipped with microprocessor input channels and data storage. Most data loggers utilize turnkey software on a personal comp...

Monitoring soil moisture and water table height with a low-cost data logger

Comprehensive temporal data sets are often needed in geosciences to understand and model environmental phenomena. Time series data sets in the geosciences have traditionally been captured by costly commercial sensors and data loggers ($100–1000s). Dedrick et al. (2000) presented a less costly ($10 s) and publicly available device known as the Hobart and William Smith Data Logger (HWSDL) (Halfma...

Portable Mp3 Player as Low-cost Data Logger

Abstract − Non-audio signals have been recorded in the flash ROM memory of a portable MP3 player, in WAV format file, to examine the possibility of using these cheap and small instruments as general-purpose portable data loggers. A 1200-Hz FM carrier modulated by the non-audio signal has replaced the microphone signal, while using the REC operating mode of the MP3 player, which triggers the voi...

Onsite Data Acquisition Using Low Cost Open Source Microcontroller