DHT22 Sensor Overview and Features
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The temperature and humidity sensor DHT22 or AM2302 joins the DHT sensor family.
of whom until now we only knew his little brother thetemperature sensor and
humidity DHT11The DHT22 sensor represents a considerable improvement in the features.
techniques regarding the DHT11 for a small increase in price.
Introduction
When what we seek is certain precision in our measurements, the safest thing is that the
The DHT11 sensor has left us a bit cold, mainly due to the wide error in measurement and the
narrow temperature range. The DHT22 sensor is born as a natural evolution of the DHT11,
with higher temperature and humidity ranges, and more accuracy.
Encapsulated
Searching on the Internet, you can find two variants of the sensor in certain stores, namely:
The loose sensor, with a white plastic "cover" and four connection pins.
The sensor with the same white casing as the previous one, but this time soldered on a board with
three connection pins, in addition to onepull-up resistor (between 3-6 kΩ) and a capacitorof
filtering (usually 100 nF).
Different
DHT22 encapsulated
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Its main general characteristics are:
Power supply: 3.3v – 5.5v, with 5v as the recommended value.
Decimal resolution, that is, the values for both humidity and temperature will be
numbers with one decimal place.
Sampling time: 2 seconds, which means it can only provide us with data every 2 seconds.
Regarding its temperature reading features:
Temperature range from -40ºC to 80ºC.
Precision: ±0.5ºC, ±1ºC at most in adverse conditions.
Response time: <10 seconds, that is, on average, it takes less than 10 seconds to
reflect a real change in temperature in the environment.
If we talk about their performance reading relative humidity:
Range of values from 0% to 99.9% Relative Humidity.
Accuracy: ±2%RH, at a temperature of 25ºC.
Response time: <5 seconds, meaning that on average, it takes less than 5 seconds to reflect
a real change in relative humidity in the environment. Additionally, to make this statement, the tests
they indicated that the air speed should be 1 m/s.
Again we are facing a modest sensor, but it is already useful for a bunch of
homemade and semi-professional projects. As long as no measurements are required
As a millimeter constant, the DHT22 sensor is a strong candidate.