Environmental Health Monitor: Advanced Development of Temperature Sensor Suite. Phase 2
Abstract
This midterm report describes work performed during the first year of a two-year SBIR Phase II effort to conduct advanced development of a self-contained suite of sensors capable of measuring, storing, and downloading upon command selected environmental temperature parameters. The sensor suite is being developed to provide the measurement of four environmental parameters (i.e., ambient temperature, relative humidity, windspeed, and radiant energy) in a form suitable for use as input to heat-strain predictive models (an immediate application of the sensor suite is as a miniature sensor for WBGT parameters or for advanced models currently under development by the Army and others). Emphasis during the first years effort has been placed on maintaining the required levels of precision, accuracy, and reliability in the measurements taken-while achieving desired reductions in unit cost, weight, size, and power consumption through the development of innovative design and packaging concepts, the application of system modularity, the identification and integration of cost-effective off-the-shelf components, and the incorporation of recent advances in electronics. Effort during the second year of this program will be devoted to continued refinement of power and cost/size reduction strategies (particularly as related to windspeed and mean radiant temperature); brassboard, breadboard and prototype fabrication; and validation testing.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 30, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADB196427
Entities
People
- Robert L. Talley