Hybrid control and data acquisition system for geographically distributed sensors for environmental monitoring

Fabio Garufi; Fausto Acernese; Alfonso Boiano; Rosario De Rosa; Rocco Romano; Fabrizio Barone

doi:10.1117/12.737787

12 November 2007 Hybrid control and data acquisition system for geographically distributed sensors for environmental monitoring

Fabio Garufi, Fausto Acernese, Alfonso Boiano, Rosario De Rosa, Rocco Romano, Fabrizio Barone

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Proceedings Volume 6749, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology VII; 67492O (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.737787
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2007, Florence, Italy

Abstract

In this paper we describe the architecture and the performances of a hybrid modular acquisition and control system prototype for environmental monitoring and geophysics. The system, an improvement of a VME-UDP/IP based system we developed for interferometric detectors of gravitational waves, is based on a dual-channel 18-bit low noise ADC, a 16-bit DAC module at 1MHz, and a 20-bit slower ADC necessary for the acquisition of an external calibration signal. The module can be configured as stand-alone or mounted on a motherboard as mezzanine in parallel with other modules. Both the modules and the motherboard can send/receive the configuration and the acquired/correction data for control through a standard EPP parallel port to a standard PC, where the real-time computation is performed. Experimental tests have demonstrated that the distributed control systems implemented with this architecture exihibit a delay time of less than 25 μs on a single channel, that is a sustained sampling frequency of more than 40kHz. The system is now under extensive test in two different experiments: the remote control and data acquisition of a set of seismometers, velocimeters and accelerometers to simulate a geophysics networks of sensors and the remote control of the end mirrors of a suspended Michelson interferometer through electrostatic actuators for interferometric detectors of gravitational waves.

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Fabio Garufi, Fausto Acernese, Alfonso Boiano, Rosario De Rosa, Rocco Romano, and Fabrizio Barone "Hybrid control and data acquisition system for geographically distributed sensors for environmental monitoring", Proc. SPIE 6749, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology VII, 67492O (12 November 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.737787

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