TCP/IP Based Remote Industrial Thermal Process: Monitoring & Graphical Plotting Over Ethernet

With the advancement of technology, the processes are becoming more complex. Due to this increase in complexity, for efficient analysis of process the number of parameters required for data acquisition also increases. Data Acquisition is simply the gathering of information about a system or process. It is the process of collecting data in an automated fashion from analog and digital measurement sources such as sensors & devices under test. Before the computer age, most data was recorded manually or on strip chart recorders. Many new generation data acquisition products have been developed due to emergence of microcontroller that enables real-time analysis, logging and viewing of data. To meet these requirements the demand of an improved, efficient and up to- date data logger is increasing. In this book, a data logger for specific application has been designed. The system works around the PIC microcontroller family. The system is designed & developed to measure the temperature with the help of temperature sensors and the result is displayed on PC in graphical form & in numeric value.The focus of design is on portability & low power consumption for battery operated applications.