Microcontroller-based performance enhancement of an optical fiber level transducer

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 489-493

  Betta, Giovanni ^a,b   Pietrosanto, Antonio ^c   Scaglione, Antonio ^c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liquid level measurement; Microcontroller; Optical fiber transducer; Petroleum industry; Sensor characterization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MICROCONTROLLERS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; REMOTE CONTROL;

LIQUID LEVEL MEASUREMENTS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0032035560     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.744196     Document Type: Article

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