Precision barometric transmitter

The barometric transmitter uses a piezoresistive high accuracy and temperature-compensated sensor. It allows to measure the athmospheric pressure in the range 0..1350 hPa (digital outputs; 100...1350 for SDI-12 version) or 500...1200 hPa (analog outputs), providing extreme accuracy and time stability, with excellent repeatability, low histeresis, and excellent temperature behaviour.

 The superior performances are obtained thanks to the employment of a piezoresistive Silicon sensor that integrates both a pressure sensitive as well as a temperature sensitive element. The measurement of pressure and temperature are processed by a microprocessor to obtain an output signal that is compensated over the transmitter’s whole, wide temperature operating range: -40…+85 °C. The sensor is factory calibrated at several points at different temperatures in the range of use.

The transmitter is available in three versions which differ in the output type so to guarantee a maximum flexibility in the choice. Moreover, the digital output enables the transmission of the measurements over long distances and connects the transmitter to sensor networks. The pressure measured and transmitted with MODBUS RTU and SDI-12 protocols can be expressed in different user-selectable measuring units.

The instrument is particularly suitable for meteorological applications (AWOS - Automated Weather Observing Systems), environmental monitoring systems, meteorological and environmental data logging, measurement laboratories, atmospheric pressure compensation in the performance of internal combustion engines, barometric pressure compensation in clean rooms, vehicle emission test.

Its low power consumption makes it ideal for remote acquisition systems such as automatic weather stations powered by solar cells.

Precision barometric transmitter