A Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System: How to Prevent Systematic Errors in the Design Phase through the Combined Use of Additive Manufacturing and Thermographic Techniques
nEMoS (nano Environmental Monitoring System) is a 3D-printed device built following the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach. It can be connected to the web and it can be used to assess indoor environmental quality (IEQ). It is built using some low-cost sensors connected to an Arduino microcontroller board...
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| author | Francesco Salamone Ludovico Danza Italo Meroni Maria Cristina Pollastro |
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| description | nEMoS (nano Environmental Monitoring System) is a 3D-printed device built following the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach. It can be connected to the web and it can be used to assess indoor environmental quality (IEQ). It is built using some low-cost sensors connected to an Arduino microcontroller board. The device is assembled in a small-sized case and both thermohygrometric sensors used to measure the air temperature and relative humidity, and the globe thermometer used to measure the radiant temperature, can be subject to thermal effects due to overheating of some nearby components. A thermographic analysis was made to rule out this possibility. The paper shows how the pervasive technique of additive manufacturing can be combined with the more traditional thermographic techniques to redesign the case and to verify the accuracy of the optimized system in order to prevent instrumental systematic errors in terms of the difference between experimental and actual values of the above-mentioned environmental parameters. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-855c442d991849988a6855da83b344572022-12-22T04:24:41ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202017-04-0117482810.3390/s17040828s17040828A Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System: How to Prevent Systematic Errors in the Design Phase through the Combined Use of Additive Manufacturing and Thermographic TechniquesFrancesco Salamone0Ludovico Danza1Italo Meroni2Maria Cristina Pollastro3ITC-CNR, Construction Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Italy, Via Lombardia, 49, 20098 San Giuliano Milanese (MI), ItalyITC-CNR, Construction Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Italy, Via Lombardia, 49, 20098 San Giuliano Milanese (MI), ItalyITC-CNR, Construction Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Italy, Via Lombardia, 49, 20098 San Giuliano Milanese (MI), ItalyITC-CNR, Construction Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Italy, Via Lombardia, 49, 20098 San Giuliano Milanese (MI), ItalynEMoS (nano Environmental Monitoring System) is a 3D-printed device built following the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach. It can be connected to the web and it can be used to assess indoor environmental quality (IEQ). It is built using some low-cost sensors connected to an Arduino microcontroller board. The device is assembled in a small-sized case and both thermohygrometric sensors used to measure the air temperature and relative humidity, and the globe thermometer used to measure the radiant temperature, can be subject to thermal effects due to overheating of some nearby components. A thermographic analysis was made to rule out this possibility. The paper shows how the pervasive technique of additive manufacturing can be combined with the more traditional thermographic techniques to redesign the case and to verify the accuracy of the optimized system in order to prevent instrumental systematic errors in terms of the difference between experimental and actual values of the above-mentioned environmental parameters.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/4/828indoor environmental qualityindoor air qualityindoor thermal comfort qualityinternet of thingsDIYIoTnearableenvironmental monitoring systemthermographyadditive manufacturing |
| spellingShingle | Francesco Salamone Ludovico Danza Italo Meroni Maria Cristina Pollastro A Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System: How to Prevent Systematic Errors in the Design Phase through the Combined Use of Additive Manufacturing and Thermographic Techniques Sensors indoor environmental quality indoor air quality indoor thermal comfort quality internet of things DIY IoT nearable environmental monitoring system thermography additive manufacturing |
| title | A Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System: How to Prevent Systematic Errors in the Design Phase through the Combined Use of Additive Manufacturing and Thermographic Techniques |
| title_full | A Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System: How to Prevent Systematic Errors in the Design Phase through the Combined Use of Additive Manufacturing and Thermographic Techniques |
| title_fullStr | A Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System: How to Prevent Systematic Errors in the Design Phase through the Combined Use of Additive Manufacturing and Thermographic Techniques |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System: How to Prevent Systematic Errors in the Design Phase through the Combined Use of Additive Manufacturing and Thermographic Techniques |
| title_short | A Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System: How to Prevent Systematic Errors in the Design Phase through the Combined Use of Additive Manufacturing and Thermographic Techniques |
| title_sort | low cost environmental monitoring system how to prevent systematic errors in the design phase through the combined use of additive manufacturing and thermographic techniques |
| topic | indoor environmental quality indoor air quality indoor thermal comfort quality internet of things DIY IoT nearable environmental monitoring system thermography additive manufacturing |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/4/828 |
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