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Disal:Anemometer

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Anemometer

The Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Laboratory, DISAL at EPFL is developing an anemometer for SwissEx.

Nozzles of anemometer intake
  • 6 temperature sensitive resistors (NTCs)
  • microcontroller reads resistance of all 6 NTCs
  • on board log-likelihood model maps measured temperatures to incident angle of the wind

Characteristics:

  • high resolution at low wind speeds (<5m/s)
  • no moving parts
  • low power consumption
  • I2C connection

Contact: Alexander Bahr