{"id":12628,"date":"2024-02-22T02:07:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T02:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=12628"},"modified":"2024-02-22T02:07:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T02:07:24","slug":"beefed-up-sensoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=12628","title":{"rendered":"Beefed up Sensoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A friend bought a couple of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sensirion.com\/products\/catalog\/SEN54\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sensirion SEN54s<\/a> and I helped him get one working, and ended up buying the extra from him. It had been a few years since I researched what sensors were out there that worked well with Raspberry Pis, and were more on the industrial side than the hobbyist side. I was immediately enthused by Sensirion&#8217;s documentation, and their sensor looked top notch. My friend did all the homework on reading specs and comparing with others, it was really a no brainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this SEN54 we&#8217;ve gained:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>accurate humidity (the previous sensor was worthless)<\/li><li>VOC<\/li><li>PM1.0<\/li><li>PM2.5<\/li><li>PM4.0<\/li><li>PM10.0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;ll be interesting to see the patterns. I&#8217;m honestly a little worried about what the particles will reveal seeing as we&#8217;re running 2 wood stoves in the house for half of the year. Reassuringly, the first few readings show we&#8217;re in the green, but then Nicole opened the stove to let out a bunch of grilled cheese sandwiches and the readings skyrocketed well above WHO guidelines for particles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot_2024-02-21_at_9_04_18\u202fPM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot_2024-02-21_at_9_04_18\u202fPM-1024x558.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12631\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But those are only delicious cheese particles finding their way into your nostrils, surely that can&#8217;t have and adverse health effect. Jokes aside it&#8217;s interesting to see how much of a tail this benign event has. I&#8217;ll be really curious to discover more, I really have no idea what I&#8217;m looking at yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am very glad to see the Pis become established as industry capable devices. It&#8217;s honestly remarkable what I&#8217;ve thrown at them over the years while they kept serving their purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend bought a couple of Sensirion SEN54s and I helped him get one working, and ended up buying the extra from him. It had been a few years since I researched what sensors were out there that worked well with Raspberry Pis, and were more on the industrial side than the hobbyist side. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=12628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beefed up Sensoring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-homestead-automation","category-i-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}