A low power measurement system for the atmospheric electric field

Author

Fort, Ada ; Mugnaini, Marco ; Vignoli, Valerio ; Rocchi, Santina ; Perini, Federico ; Monari, Jader ; Schiaffino, Marco ; Fiocchi, Franco

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Siena, Siena, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

3-6 May 2010

Firstpage

1290

Lastpage

1294

Abstract

In this work an optimized version of the field-mill sensor structure for atmospheric electric field measurements is presented. Both the hardware components, i.e. the mechanical structure, the electronic front-end, the acquisition and control systems, and the data processing software, are optimized in order to reduce the power consumption and to enhance the instrument metrological performance in term of accuracy, sensitivity and frequency band.

Keywords

electric field measurement; power consumption; acquisition system; atmospheric electric field measurement; data processing software; electronic front-end; field-mill sensor structure; low power measurement system; mechanical structure; power consumption; Atmospheric measurements; Control systems; Data processing; Electric variables measurement; Energy consumption; Hardware; Instruments; Mechanical sensors; Power measurement; Software performance; atmospheric electric field measurement; electric field monitoring; field mill;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2832-8

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2010.5488152

Filename

5488152