5. System Overview
Reading List
• Quickstart (p. 41)
• Specifications (p. 97)
• Installation
(p. 99)
• Operation (p. 303)
A Campbell Scientific data-acquisition system is made up of the following basic
components:
• Sensors
• Datalogger, which includes:
o Clock
o Measurement and control circuitry
o Hardware and firmware to communicate with telecommunication devices
o User-entered CRBasic program
• Telecommunication link or external storage device
• Datalogger support software
(p. 512)
The figure Data-Acquisition Systems — Overview
(p. 62) illustrates a common
CR1000-based data-acquisition system.
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