Campbell Datalogger

ELEMENT:

Campbell CR10X dataloggers

AIM:

Two Campbell dataloggers are used in the Healthy Home to record information about water and power use within the house and climatic conditions in the house and surrounding environment.

One datalogger records information from the rain gauge, a rainwater tank pressure sensor,15 watermeters and 5 electrical power meters located throughout the home. The water and power meters are situated in a variety of locations within the home, so that the researchers can assess the partitioning of use (e.g. toilet versus laundry; lighting versus pumps etc.) of water and electricity.

The other datalogger records information from 9 temperature sensors and 7 power sensors throughout the house, relative humidity inside and outside the house, the amount of sunlight and wind speed and direction from the weather station on the roof.

The information is recorded every 10 minutes and added up every half hour and at midnight each night.

The data sent by the sensors and collected in the datalogger is used to find out where improvements in house design can be made. Some of the data collected is available on the Live Data section of the web site.

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