

Ask HN: sensors that export data? - petervandijck

I'm trying to manage the humidity in my new house, and have a humidity meter. But it doesn't export data over time. I'd like it to have a usb port so that I can get data over time and put it on my computer. I can also imagine wanting to do this with other data (temperature, walking data, sleeping data, ...) that various sensors gather.<p>Are there any tools like this out there? Open source hardware projects that I can hack? Commercial tools?
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gsivil
We have just used something like that in our lab. You can check

[http://www.itwatchdogs.com/product-detail-
minigoose_ii-8.htm...](http://www.itwatchdogs.com/product-detail-
minigoose_ii-8.html)

it is a device connected with air flow/humidity/ Dew point/ temperature
sensors and connected to the internet. The basic models starts from 200
dollars I think. If you want to contact me at my username at g mail I can link
you to our lab's website to check the interface

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brk
You can buy sensors for things like that, but they'll tend to be expensive for
what you get, eg:

<http://www.tequipment.net/AmprobeTR300.html>

If you like to hack around with micro-controllers then you can build something
that does all that more for about the same price, but have a lot more
flexibility.

Google for things like "1-wire humidity sensor". The Dallas Semi 1-wire bus is
widely supported with most micro controllers, and fairly easy to implement.

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po
Check out Bug Labs: <http://www.buglabs.net/>

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zeynel1
Is this what you are looking for:

<http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807740>

Building Wireless Sensor Networks with ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing

