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Capacitive Humidity Sensors Overview

The document discusses different circuit designs for capacitive humidity sensors. Simple oscillator circuits can provide analog or digital humidity readings but lack temperature compensation and accuracy of around 5-10%. Even cheaper wireless designs have high temperature drift and lower accuracy of 10-20%. More advanced digital evaluation circuits using microcontrollers can provide thermally compensated readings, accuracy as high as 0.5-1%, and integrate display logic, but require programming effort and multipoint calibration.

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Capacitive Humidity Sensors Overview

The document discusses different circuit designs for capacitive humidity sensors. Simple oscillator circuits can provide analog or digital humidity readings but lack temperature compensation and accuracy of around 5-10%. Even cheaper wireless designs have high temperature drift and lower accuracy of 10-20%. More advanced digital evaluation circuits using microcontrollers can provide thermally compensated readings, accuracy as high as 0.5-1%, and integrate display logic, but require programming effort and multipoint calibration.

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Capacitive Humidity Sensors

INNOVATIVE SENSOR TECHNOLOGY

DIF/15 JUL 2005/File: Presentation_Application_Diagrams.ppt

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Capacitive Humidity Sensors

Typical Application Circuits


Advantages: Simple Inexpensive Digital and analog Disadvantages: No temperature compensation Frequency spectrum may exceed sensor specification Oscillator circuit may drift in frequency Accuracy around 5...10% Disadvantages can be significantly reduced by additional microcontroller and 2 point calibration.

Oscillator Section

Monoflop with variable delay time PWM output

DIF/15 JUL 2005/File: Presentation_Application_Diagrams.ppt

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Capacitive Humidity Sensors

It works even cheaper


Advantages: Simple Inexpensive Wireless Disadvantages: High temperature drift Accuracy around 10...20% Oscillator Section Monoflop with variable delay time PWM output Short range wireless transmitter There is no way to thermally compensate. The sensor will see a high frequency spectrum and act very nonlinear

DIF/15 JUL 2005/File: Presentation_Application_Diagrams.ppt

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Capacitive Humidity Sensors

Digital evaluation circuit

Advantages: Simple Inexpensive Digital and analog Display logic integrated Thermally compensated Sensor operated within spec Accuracy 0.5 ... 1% possible

Disadvantages: Micro controller needs to be programmed (NRE effort) Multipoint calibration over humidity and temperature needed

DIF/15 JUL 2005/File: Presentation_Application_Diagrams.ppt

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Capacitive Humidity Sensors

DIF/15 JUL 2005/File: Presentation_Application_Diagrams.ppt

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