University of Northern Iowa, Physics, Cedar Falls, IA 50614
PRESENTATION ABSTRACT Computer Interfacing CREATING A WIRELESS SENSING AND CONTROL NETWORK USING LABVIEW, C.G. Reilly, T.E. Kidd*, University of Northern Iowa, Department of Physics, Cedar Falls, IA 50614, tim.kidd@uni.edu
Having a wireless network set up to where one could collect environmental data and/or control devices environment could have numerous applications. These applications could range from measuring the environment for sample fabrication in a laboratory to controlling devices or machines from large distances. Using the open source electronics prototyping platform Arduino, some environmental sensors, namely temperature and humidity, and LabVIEW software, we are working on creating a wireless sensing and control network. The wireless part of the project comes from the Zigbee wireless radio hardware which works well with the Arduino prototyping platform. So far we have been able to send data from the Arduino board to the computer wirelessly and currently are working on incorporating a temperature and humidity sensor into the project. In the future we hope to attach the sensor and components onto a remote control car, of which we will be able to control on LabVIEW as well while we are collecting data from the sensor.
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