Data Acquisition for Sensor Systems

Data acquisition is concerned with taking one or more analogue signals and converting them to digital form with sufficient accuracy and speed to be ready for processing by a computer. The book discusses data processing in depth and includes chapters on the fundamental principles of measurement, sensors and signal conditioning. there is also a chapter on software packages. The core of the book covers the devices used in a data acquisition system and how they are put together. At the end of the chapters there are application examples with fully worked solutions. Most of these were originally set at UMIST and many of them are based on practical experience.