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| Environmental monitoring ranges from examining the integrity of soil, water, and air to regulating the temperature and humidity associated with the indoor storage of critical assets such as servers or perishables. Wireless technology expands these applications by allowing you to make measurements that were previously difficult or even impossible. With NI LabVIEW and WSN, you can improve your yield and your environmental footprint. |
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Wireless Environmental Monitoring Technology
The flexibility of LabVIEW graphical programming and the low-power, reliable NI WSN platform make it easy to implement wireless measurements in new and existing environmental monitoring systems. NI WSN devices, with up to 3-year battery life and an outdoor range up to 300m, extend the world-trusted measurement hardware from National Instruments to places where wiring is historically difficult or cost prohibitive. With a variety of measurement capabilities – from temperature and humidity to current and voltage – and a reliable mesh networking architecture, NI WSN enables measurement and analysis capabilities previously only possible by physically connected measurement systems.
Learn more about wireless sensor networks »
View specs and pricing for WSN measurement nodes »
Case Studies
From the factory floor to the forest canopy, industrial-grade data acquisition and programmable automation controllers (PACs) are being deployed to harsh environments for data logging, analysis, and measurement trending. See how customers are using NI products to solve real-world environmental monitoring challenges. Also view tutorials and videos explaining the technology that enables these applications.
Environmental Monitoring Resource Kit »
Researchers at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica are trying to better understand the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the environment. They are using NI technology to measure the exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2), also known as the carbon flux, and other materials between the atmosphere and the forest floor. Using wireless measurement technology, engineers from the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA developed a networked infomechanical system (NIMS) that measures and analyzes a variety of environmental indicators and offers remote configuration capabilities.
Environmental Monitoring in the Costa Rican Rain Forest »
To comply with the federal Clean Air Mercury Rule and other U.S. Environmental Protection Association (EPA) regulations, coal-fired power plants must continuously monitor the amount of mercury emissions they release. National Instruments Alliance Partner, Data Science Automation, in collaboration with its client, Clean Air Engineering, developed a mercury emissions stack monitoring system that uses LabVIEW and an NI Compact FieldPoint PAC for measurement, processing, and control. The system publishes the data over a wireless network to a PDA, which provides all status displays and operator interactions.
Mercury Emissions Stack Monitor »
Additional Resources
- Learn How To Simplify Remote Monitoring with LabVIEW
- Read Green Engineering Resources
- Purchase an NI WSN Starter Kit
- Learn more about NI WSN
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