
2.2.2 Temperature/Humidity - Campbell Scientific CS215
Function
To complete the monitoring of the conditions inside the BGC-FTIR-Container the
digital Temperature/Humidity Sensor CS215 comes into operation. Figure 2.16
shows the sensor. It features a digital SDI-12 output allowing simple connection to
the Control-Port of the Datalogger CR1000.
Figure 2.16: Campbell Scientific CS215
[Manual - CS215 Temperature & Relative Humidity Probe,
3/08]
The BGC-FTIR-Container is constructed to have two rooms, a main room where the
FTIR instrumentation is fitted and a secondary room with a built-in air conditioning,
a fuse box and additionally the control unit. Two digital CS215 observe temperature
and humidity in both rooms in order to control air conditions and further on to avoid
high humidity levels by providing data to control the air condition.
Measuring Principle
The core of this sensor is a specially developed, patented semiconductor chip, also
known as "computer chip". Special sensing structures are implemented on the chip
by means of micro systems engineering. They detect precisely and reliably the de-
sired physical parameters, in that case relative humidity and temperature. The
fusion of sensor and evaluation circuitry on one chip named CMOS guarantees that
the sensitive, analog sensor signals can be amplified and digitized without noise and
with high precision. The scheme of this chip can be found in Fig. 2.17.
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