Aparna Pawar

Recently, the great revolution is taking place in the field of electronic instrumentation for precise measurement of the physical as well as chemical parameters. It is found that, the embedded technology is an innovative and ubiquitous field of electronics instrumentation particularly the development of an embedded instrumentation for plethora of applications. Now days, a novel field of Smart Sensor Module is emerging. Smart Sensor Module is electronic system, wherein the intellectual devices are incorporated along with analog signal condition. It is standardized by IEEE 1451 standard. Therefore, emphasizing the fact that, the confluence of two novel technologies, an ubiquitous embedded technology for development of Smart Sensor Module (SSM) and synthesis of electronic materials for development of sensors required for SSM. The sensors are developed for relative humidity, temperature, CO2 gas, H2S gas and NH3 gas. Moreover, according to IEEE 1451 standards, the Smart sensor module is developed wherein the novel embedded philosophy is employed. The results regarding the synthesis sensor material, hardware design and software designing and obtained results presented in this book.

In recent days the state of art technology is the development of an instrumentation, for industrials, agricultural and R & D etc sectors. Recently, it is found that, the characterization of materials plays vital role in the field of material science. For materials research the different properties of the materials are explored, to investigate the structural details of materials under investigation. The properties to be determined depend upon the material and their application potential. Investigations of various properties, particularly of magnetic materials are of great interest. It is found that, the magnetic material reflects their characteristics through magnetic parameters such as Saturation Magnetization (Ms), Magnetic Moment (ηβ), Initial Permeability (μ), AC susceptibility (χ), Corecivity (Hc), and Retaintivity (Mr) etc. Therefore, in order to investigate the magnetic properties one should use sophisticated instrumentation. Microcontroller based embedded system is found to be most reliable. Therefore, Smart embedded system design issues for measurement of AC Susceptibility of Magnetic Material using high performance Microcontroller presented in this book.