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Ask HN: sensors that export data?
I'm trying to manage the humidity in my new house, and have a humidity meter. But it doesn't export data over time. I'd like it to have a usb port so that I can get data over time and put it on my computer. I can also imagine wanting to do this with other data (temperature, walking data, sleeping data, ...) that various sensors gather.
Are there any tools like this out there? Open source hardware projects that I can hack? Commercial tools?
- zeynel1 16y agoIs this what you are looking for: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807740 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807740 Building Wireless Sensor Networks with ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing
- gsivil 16y agoWe have just used something like that in our lab. You can check http://www.itwatchdogs.com/product-detail-minigoose_ii-8.html http://www.itwatchdogs.com/product-detail-minigoose_ii-8.htm... it is a device connected with air flow/humidity/ Dew point/ temperature sensors and connected to the internet. The basic models starts from 200 dollars I think. If you want to contact me at my username at g mail I can link you to our lab's website to check the interface
- brk 16y agoYou can buy sensors for things like that, but they'll tend to be expensive for what you get, eg: http://www.tequipment.net/AmprobeTR300.html http://www.tequipment.net/AmprobeTR300.html If you like to hack around with micro-controllers then you can build something that does all that more for about the same price, but have a lot more flexibility. Google for things like "1-wire humidity sensor". The Dallas Semi 1-wire bus is widely supported with most micro controllers, and fairly easy to implement.
- po 16y agoCheck out Bug Labs: http://www.buglabs.net/ http://www.buglabs.net/