Abstract:
In building automation, comfort is an important
aspect, and the real-time measurement of comfort is notoriously
complicated. In this paper, we have developed a wireless, smart
comfort sensing system. The important parameters in designing
the prevalent measurement of comfort systems, such as
portability, power consumption, reliability, and system cost, were
considered. To achieve the target design goals, the communication
module, sensor node, and sink node were developed based on the
IEEE1451 standard. Electrochemical and semiconductor sensors
were considered for the development of the sensor array, and the
results of both technologies were compared. The sensor and sink
nodes were implemented using the ATMega88 microcontroller.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 preview was used to create the
graphical user interface in C#. The sensors were calibrated after
the signal processing circuit to ensure that the standard accuracy
of the sensor was achieved. This paper presents detailed design
solutions to problems that existed in the literature.
