Windows XP Issues for Real-Time Temperature Monitoring

Author

Marcu, Marius ; Moldovan, Horatiu ; Zilahi, Mihai ; Tomescu, Victor ; Ionas, Mihai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Software Eng., "Politehnica" Univ. of Timisoara

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

16-19 May 2005

Firstpage

2091

Lastpage

2096

Abstract

Windows operating systems (NT, 2000, XP, 2003) were not designed for real-time and time-critical applications. But, due to the market requirements, many of the monitoring and control applications are to use Windows NT based operating systems. One of the most important parameter in almost all applications is temperature. Therefore, this article addresses the problem of temperature monitoring using a non real-time operating system, like Windows. A number of three solutions for thermal sensors connecting to PC´s interfaces are presented

Keywords

computer interfaces; computerised instrumentation; device drivers; operating systems (computers); real-time systems; temperature sensors; PC interfaces; Windows NT; Windows XP; Windows operating systems; non real-time operating system; real-time temperature monitoring; thermal sensors; Automatic control; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Master-slave; Operating systems; Real time systems; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Thermal sensors; Time factors; 1-Wire bus; device driver; high-resolution timing; real-time; temperature monitor; thermal sensor; time-critical;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2005. IMTC 2005. Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8879-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604542

Filename

1604542