Monitoring and control of a reptile terrarium

Author

Santos, P. ; Alves, Joao ; Carneiro, P.

Author_Institution

Phys. Dept., Polytech. of Porto, Porto, Portugal

fYear

2014

fDate

26-28 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

438

Lastpage

439

Abstract

Temperature control is essential to establish the proper conditions of a natural behavior and development of reptiles in any zoo. The present paper presents the work developed in ISEP in partnership with Maia Zoo, regarding the monitoring and control of a reptile terrarium´s temperature. A NTC thermistor is used as the sensor element and the acquisition and control is implemented with a microcontroller Arduino. The prototype was encapsulated in a waterproof case, guaranteeing operation under harsh conditions. A web database and interface was created with MySQL, allowing the remote acquisition and management of the data.

Keywords

Internet; SQL; distributed databases; microcontrollers; monitoring; temperature control; thermistors; zoology; Maia zoo; MySQL; NTC thermistor; Web database; data management; harsh conditions; microcontroller Arduino; monitoring; remote acquisition; reptile terrarium temperature control; Databases; Monitoring; Temperature; Temperature control; Temperature dependence; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Control; MySQL Database; Temperature Monitoring; Web Interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2014 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Porto

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/REV.2014.6784268

Filename

6784268