New Measuring Method for Colorless Liquid Level Based on CLC100 Level Sensor and Powercast Wireless Sensor Kit

Guanlin Yan^1,2, Gerhard Lindner², Yuming Shen¹

¹Department of Control Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.
²Institute of Sensor and Actuator Technology, Coburg, Germany.

DOI: 10.4236/eng.2015.74014                

Abstract

In this paper, a new wireless measuring method for colorless liquid level measurement was presented, based on latest CLC100 liquid level sensor and Powercast wireless sensor development kit. The wireless system is divided into two parts, level measurement and data transmission part as well as data receiving and display part. First part included the capacitive liquid level sensor CLC100 and the wireless senor board. CLC100 sensor was used for liquid level measurement. Wireless sensor kit from Powercast Corporation included one wireless sensor board, which was used for signal transmission. A built-in PIC microcontroller was embedded in the transmission module, for the purpose of processing and data transmitting. Due to CLC100 sensor’s output voltage exceeding the sensor board’s input limitation, a voltage convertor was designed to connect the sensor and the wireless sensor board. The final results were voltages corresponding to the liquid level, and were processed by an independent PIC development board, and then sent to PC’s hyper terminal via serial-port by this PIC microcontroller. Experiments showed that this wireless sensor node prototype worked well.

Keywords

CLC100 Liquid Level Sensor, Powercast Wireless Sensor Kit, Colorless Liquid Level Measurement, Wireless Sensor

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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