Design & construction of microcontroller based wind speed & direction monitoring system

Author

Babu, Shuvra Dey ; Acharjya, Agom Sree ; Alam, Shahinur

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Premier Univ., Chittagong, Bangladesh

fYear

2014

fDate

21-23 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

284

Lastpage

288

Abstract

In this paper, a microcontroller based portable wind speed detection and wind direction monitoring system has been designed as well as developed. An infra-red light-emitting diode (LED) and a photo diode has been used as a transmitter and receiver respectively. The resolution of optical sensor for measuring speed is six pulses per rotation. The designed system is used to find out the all possible common wind direction such as south, east, north, west, north-west, north east, south-west, southeast etc. Moreover, the system is able to show the angle of wind. A lucrative LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) has been used to display the speed and the wind direction angle. The details of the design methodology and the expected result have been shown in following section.

Keywords

anemometers; light emitting diodes; liquid crystal displays; microcontrollers; photodiodes; LCD; infrared LED; infrared light-emitting diode; liquid crystal display; microcontroller based portable wind speed detection; photodiode; wind direction angle; wind direction monitoring system; wind speed monitoring system; Blades; Fluid flow measurement; Light emitting diodes; Microcontrollers; Wind speed; Anemometer; LED; Optical sensor; PIC16F887; Wind Vane;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Strategic Technology (IFOST), 2014 9th International Forum on

Conference_Location

Cox´s Bazar

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6060-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IFOST.2014.6991123

Filename

6991123