In: Electrical Engineering
You are required to log data of humidity for a warehouse site
survey of one year. Make a block diagram of system that would be
used to collect data for analysis and explain the components
briefly? attach picture with next section
Your answer
Differentiate between a sensor and a transducer. Support your
answer with at least two examples?
Your answer
The block diagram for logging the data of humidity for a warehouse is shown below
It mainly contains four major systems:
1. Humidity sensor
This sensor is mainly used for sensing the humidity of the
warehouse. It basically senses the relative humidity. The measuring
principle is based on the well-known capacitive mechanism. Hence,
the output of this sensor is analog.
2. Microcontroller board (ADC converter)
To convert the analog signals as sense by the humidity sensor into
its equivalent digital signals, a microcontroller should be used
that consists of an analog-to-digital converter. The ADC converter
is used to convert the signal; however, the microcontroller is
forming a gateway to storage the captured data.
3. Serial port
To send the data from the microcontroller to the storage device, we
need a serial port that passes on the digitized data into a storage
device such as PC.
4. Storage device
This component is used to store the captured data. Typically, a
computer has been used in this aspect.
Differentiate between transducer and sensor
The sensor is used convert the physical signal into its
corresponding electrical signals; on the other hand, the actuator
is used to convert the electrical signals into its equivalent
mechanical work.
For example: a robotic manipulator; where mostly vision sensor is
used to locate a device, the distance of that device from the
manipulator etc. Using that information, the robotic manipulator
i.e. the actuation system is tried to hold that object.
In a temperature control system, the temperature sensor is used to
sense the ambient temperature. Based on that sensing information,
the actuators such as air cooler or heater are triggered.