A Low-Cost Online Data Acquisition and Processing System for Industrial Pollutants’ Monitoring

Abstract

Recently, the prevention and control of industrial pollution has attracted extensive attention. Many studies based on emission data have achieved great success, but there are relatively few studies on the emission data acquisition. To this end, we propose a data acquisition and processing system (DAPS) for online monitoring of industrial pollutants. The system receives real-time emission data through the RS485, automatically generates periodic data, and saves it in the SQL Server database. Real-time Ethernet (RTE) is used to transmit control signals between the system and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Emission data is transmitted to local industrial control systems and remote monitoring centers (RMCs) via a wireless network. We tested the acquisition function and communication function of the system through experiments and evaluated the overall performance of the system by observing the memory and CPU usage. The system is characterized by simple implementation and versatility and can be applied to continuous monitoring of various industrial pollutants.