An Automatic Light Monitoring System with Light-to-Frequency Converter for Flower Planting

Author

Kuo, Wei-Cheng ; Chiang, Cheng-Ta ; Huang, Yu-Chung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 May 2008

Firstpage

1146

Lastpage

1149

Abstract

In this paper, an automatic light monitoring system with light-to-frequency converter for flower planting is newly proposed. Based on the requirements for flower planting, the proposed light monitoring system is thus analyzed and designed. Besides, the designed light transducer, which is implemented as a light-to-frequency converter, is attractive due to that a digitized signal is produced without realizing the analog to digital converter. Hence, the hardware cost could be reduced. All the functions and performance of the proposed light monitoring system are successfully proven through measurement results. The proposed light monitoring system is rather suitable for the needs in a large flower planting area.

Keywords

agriculture; condition monitoring; frequency convertors; optical sensors; transducers; analog-to-digital converter; automatic light monitoring system; flower planting; light transducer; light-to-frequency converter; Agriculture; Analog-digital conversion; Circuits; Computerized monitoring; Costs; Lighting control; Optical receivers; Programmable control; Signal design; Transducers; Light monitoring system; flower planting; light-to-frequency converter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings, 2008. IMTC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1540-3

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547211

Filename

4547211