A microcontroller-based data acquisition system for solar radiation and environmental monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1232-1238

  Mukaro, Raphael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Communication; Data acquisition; Digital; Interface; Interrupt; Microcontroller; Programmable; Serial

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MICROCONTROLLERS; PROM; RADIATION DETECTORS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONLINEAR CORRELATION; PRECISION SPECTRAL PYRANOMETER; SILICON CELL PYRANOMETER; SOLAR RADIATION SENSOR;

SCADA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033347310     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.816142     Document Type: Article

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