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December 04, 2007

1-Wire Environmental Monitoring

I have a sensor network I use for monitoring environmental conditions around my apartment. Here's how I did it.

To start with, I use a 1-wire network to connect several sensors for monitoring. I use Maxim/Dallas DS1920 Temperature iButtons and AAG Electronica TAI8540B Humidity Sensors for the indoor sensing. Outdoors I use a Hobby Boards Humidity/Temp/Solar Sensor in a Davis 7714 Solar Radiation Shield. The sensors are simply connected with telephone cabling. The internal iButtons are mounted to Maxim/Dallas DS1402D-DR8 Blue Dot Receptacles and the Humidity sensors are pre-cabled. A Maxim/Dallas DS9097U-009 adapter provides a serial interface to the 1-wire network and is connected to my server machine. Incidently, all these sensors are parasitically powered from the 1-wire network solely by attempting to read from them. On my server machine I periodically run the DigiTemp software to poll each sensor and store the results in an RRD (Round Robin Database) using RRDtool. I then use RRDtool again to periodically plot the data and produce the graphs displayed. System temperatures are garnered from the onboard motherboard sensors using xmbmon.

Comments

Thanks for posting this info. I also am a hobbyist and need to get some low cost temperature solutions going soon. Glad you included your links to different product solutions. I really wanted an IP thermostat, but $350 is hard to swallow for simple control. Thanks.

Posted by: Robert S at December 29, 2007 06:49 PM

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