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Chapter 14. Weather Monitoring System
14.1.1. Objective
Our objective is to design a weather monitoring system interfacing various sensors with the Cypress PSoC 1
Evaluation board. The weather system is capable of capturing the following measurements.
Humidity
Temperature
Ambient Light
Wind Speed
Rain
The values calculated by the PSoC are sent to a PC using a USB-UART connection. These values can be
updated dynamically.
14.1.2. System Design
Figure 280: Weather Monitoring System Design
14.1.3. Conceptual Background
The idea of interfacing all the above sensors with PSoC, is to explore the potential and understand the full
functionalities of a PSoC. In contrast to a design based on microprocessor, the PSoC integrates all the external
hardware that would have been needed in to a single chip, facilitating a very less time to design. The PSoC consists
of both Analog and Digital blocks that are configurable, some even during run time. The user modules offer a
variety of small systems that can be placed in the digital or analog blocks accordingly.
In the current project, we used 3 analog sensors and 2 switch based sensors (that can be modeled as digital outputs).
14.1.4. Equipment Required
PSoC 1 Evaluation board
MiniProg
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RS232 USB connector
Humidity sensor HIH-4030/31
Ambient Light sensor TEMT6000
Temperature sensor LM335A
Anemometer p/n 80422
Rain guage p/n 80422
Figure 281: Equipment Used
Humidity Sensor (HIH-4031):
It needs a 5v dc supply. The output is an analog signal that varies in linearly with humidity.
RH = (Vout - 0.958) / 0.0307
Figure 282: Humidity Sensor (HIH-4031)
Ambient Light Sensor (TEMT6000):
The supply voltage can be from 3.3v or 5v. In our case we used 5v dc supply. The output is an analog voltage that
ranges from 0v to 5v based on the brightness (luminance).
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Figure 283: Ambient Light Sensor (TEMT6000)
Figure 284: Circuit Diagram Light Sensor
Temperature Sensor (LM 335A)
It is also an analog sensor that gives an output between 0v and 5v with a linearity of 10mv per Kelvin change in
temperature.
Figure 285: Temperature Sensor (LM 335A)
Anemometer & rain gauge (p/n 80422)
They are based on a reed switch, which is activated by the magnetic field produced during the motion of a sensor. The
cup-type anemometer measures wind speed by closing the reed switch contact. A wind speed of 1.492 MPH causes the
switch to close once per second.
The rain gauge is a self-emptying tipping bucket type. Each 0.2794 mm of rain causes one momentary contact closure
that can be recorded with a digital counter or microcontroller interrupt input. The gauges switch is connected to the two
centre conductors of the RJ11-terminated cable.
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Figure 286: Anemometer & rain gauge (p/n 80422)
Figure 287: Anemometer Basic Design
14.1.5. Choose and Place User Modules
The PSoC user modules required for each of the sensors are given below.
Table 5: User Modules Weather Monitoring
Humidity Amplifier(PGA) ADC (12 bit)
Light Amplifier(PGA)
ADC (12 bit)
Temperature Amplifier(PGA)
ADC (12 bit)
Wind speed Timer 32 bit
Rain gauge Timer 8 bit
PSoC Usage:
ROM 18% full. 5861 out of 32768 bytes used (does not include absolute areas).
RAM 7% full. 120 bytes used (does not include stack usage).
In addition to the above, we need a UART user module to send data to a PC through USB. Another timer is also
used to update the data periodically to the UART.
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The PSoC program is written in C language. As soon as it is programmed to the chip, press the reset button once.
Then after 3 seconds, the data appears on the hyper terminal. The new values get updated every 3 seconds. This
duration can also be altered by configuring the timer. (Check the configuration file).
Figure 288: Schematic
Figure 289: Pin out View
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Figure 290: Top Design View
14.1.6. Coding
#include <m8c.h> // part specific constants and macros
#include "PSoCAPI.h" // PSoC API definitions for all User Modules
#include "stdlib.h" // Header file used to support standard library
function link ftoa
#include "string.h"
void initialize(void);
void humidity(void);
void brightness(void);
void temperature(void);
void windspeed(void);
void rain(void);
void welcomeScreen(void);
#pragma interrupt_handler Timer24CaptureISR
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#pragma interrupt_handler Timer8CaptureISR
#pragma interrupt_handler Timer81CaptureISR
#define DATA_AVAILABLE 0x01
#define FALLING_EDGE 0x02
int generate=0;
int gcount=0;
int speed_count=0;
int rg_count=0;
BYTE Flags;
BYTE Flags8;
char hm[10]="000000000";
char br[10]="000000000";
char tp[10]="000000000";
char ws[10]="000000000";
char rg[10]="000000000";
void main(void)
{
initialize();
while(1)
{
//if (UART_bCmdCheck() || rg_available || ws_available)
if(generate)
{
UART_PutChar(12);
humidity();
brightness();
temperature();
windspeed();
rain();
UART_CPutString("\n\rRelative Humidity %: ");
UART_PutString(hm);
//UART_CPutString("\n\r");
UART_CPutString("\n\rBrightness : ");
UART_PutString(br);
//UART_CPutString("\n\r");
UART_CPutString("\n\rTemperature : ");
UART_PutString(tp);
//UART_CPutString("\n\r");
UART_CPutString("\n\rWindSpeed: ");
UART_PutString(ws);
//UART_CPutString("\n\r");
UART_CPutString("\n\rRain : ");
UART_PutString(rg);
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UART_CPutString("\n\r");
generate=0;
speed_count=0;
UART_CmdReset();
}
}
}
void initialize(void)
{
M8C_EnableGInt;
PGA_1_Start(PGA_1_HIGHPOWER);
ADCINC12_1_Start(ADCINC12_1_HIGHPOWER);
ADCINC12_1_GetSamples(0);
PGA_2_Start(PGA_2_HIGHPOWER);
ADCINC12_2_Start(ADCINC12_2_HIGHPOWER);
ADCINC12_2_GetSamples(0);
PGA_3_Start(PGA_3_HIGHPOWER);
ADCINC12_3_Start(ADCINC12_3_HIGHPOWER);
ADCINC12_3_GetSamples(0);
UART_IntCntl(UART_ENABLE_RX_INT);
UART_Start(UART_PARITY_NONE);
Flags = 0;
// Start timer and enable interrupt
Timer24_Start();
Timer24_EnableInt();
Timer24_FUNC_LSB_REG &= ~0x80;
Timer8_Start();
Timer8_EnableInt();
Timer8_FUNC_REG &= ~0x80;
Timer81_Start();
Timer81_EnableInt();
Timer81_FUNC_REG &= ~0x80;
UART_CmdReset();
//Clear the screen in Hyper terminal window
UART_PutChar(12);
// Print welcome screen
welcomeScreen();
}
void humidity(void)
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{
float f;
int idata;
while(!ADCINC12_1_fIsDataAvailable());
idata = ADCINC12_1_iGetData() + 0x0800;
f = (float)idata * 0.00122;
f = (f - 0.958)/0.0307;
itoa(hm, f, 10);
}
void brightness(void)
{
float f;
int idata;
while(!ADCINC12_2_fIsDataAvailable());
idata = ADCINC12_2_iGetData() + 0x0800;
f = (float)idata * 0.00122;
f = (f*1000);
itoa(br, f, 10);
}
void temperature(void)
{
float f;
int idata;
while(!ADCINC12_3_fIsDataAvailable());
idata = ADCINC12_3_iGetData() + 0x0800;
f = (float)idata * 0.00122;
f = (f*300/4.1);
itoa(tp, f, 10);
}
void windspeed(void)
{
float f;
f = (speed_count/3) * (1.493);
itoa(ws, f, 10);
}
void rain(void)
{
//float f;
//f = rg_count * 2.794;
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itoa(rg, rg_count, 10);
}
void Timer24CaptureISR(void)
{
speed_count++;
}
void Timer8CaptureISR(void)
{
rg_count++;
}
void welcomeScreen(void)
{
UART_CPutString("\n\r........Welcome to TAMU Weather Station.........");
UART_CPutString("\n\r............Updates every 3 seconds.............");
UART_CPutString("\n\r");
}
void Timer81CaptureISR(void)
{
generate=1;
gcount++;
}
14.1.7. Total Assembly
The sensors are mounted on the breadboard that is provided along with the PSoC. The RS232 port is connected to
the USB of a PC and the baud rate is set to be 19200. The 5v dc supply is available on the evaluation board. 2
(100K) resistors are used to pull down the interrupts used by the wind speed and rain gauge sensor.
Figure 291: Working Configuration
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Figure 292: Anemometer connection
14.1.8. Expected Result
Humidity 0% RH 0.958 v
75% RH 3.268v
Light Ev = 20 lx, standard light A
Temperature 0v 0 K
10mv/K
Wind speed 1.492 MPH / per pulse
Rain gauge 0.2794 mm / per pulse
14.1.9. Suggested Modifications
The output data is currently being sent to a hyper terminal. It can be used to update an online webpage dynamically.
The entire assembly can be mounted on a building top and the PSoC is to be securely placed. The sampling
frequency of the ADCs can be reduced so that they consume less switching power. The digital switches can be
captured as I/O interrupts rather than timer interrupts so that only one timer can serve all the purposes.
14.1.10. References
Cypress 210 chip level design tutorial.
HIH-4030/31 Series datasheet.
TEMT6000 datasheet.
LM 335A Precision temperature sensor datasheet.
Wind p/n 80422 datasheet.
Cypress example project UART datasheet.
