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A wireless RF CMOS interface for a soil moisture sensor
| Resumo: | This paper describes a wireless RF CMOS interface for a soil moisture sensor. The mixedsignal interface is based on a 2ndorder switched capacitor, fully differential sigma-delta modulator with an effective resolution of 17-bit. The modulator bit stream output is applied to a counter as a first order decimation filter and encoded as a pulse width modulated signal. This signal is then transmitted by means of an amplitude shift keying modulation, through a power amplifier operating at 433:92 MHz in class-E mode. The soil moisture sensor is based on Dual-Probe Heat-Pulse method and is implemented using an integrated temperature sensor and heater. After applying a heat-pulse, the temperature rise that is a function of soil moisture, generates a differential voltage that is amplified and applied to the mixed-signal interface input. The described interface can also be used with other kinds of environmental sensors in a wireless network for agricultural environments such as greenhouses. The CMOS mixedsignal interface has been implemented in a single-chip using a standard CMOS process (AMI 0.7 um, n-well, 2 metals and 1 poly). |
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| Autores principais: | Morais, Raul |
| Outros Autores: | Valente, A.; Couto, Carlos; Correia, J. H. |
| Assunto: | Wireless Sigma-Delta Soil-Moisture sensors RF CMOS interface Agriculture sensors |
| Ano: | 2003 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | This paper describes a wireless RF CMOS interface for a soil moisture sensor. The mixedsignal interface is based on a 2ndorder switched capacitor, fully differential sigma-delta modulator with an effective resolution of 17-bit. The modulator bit stream output is applied to a counter as a first order decimation filter and encoded as a pulse width modulated signal. This signal is then transmitted by means of an amplitude shift keying modulation, through a power amplifier operating at 433:92 MHz in class-E mode. The soil moisture sensor is based on Dual-Probe Heat-Pulse method and is implemented using an integrated temperature sensor and heater. After applying a heat-pulse, the temperature rise that is a function of soil moisture, generates a differential voltage that is amplified and applied to the mixed-signal interface input. The described interface can also be used with other kinds of environmental sensors in a wireless network for agricultural environments such as greenhouses. The CMOS mixedsignal interface has been implemented in a single-chip using a standard CMOS process (AMI 0.7 um, n-well, 2 metals and 1 poly). |
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