EVALUATION OF A CONSUMER ELECTRONICS-BASED DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR EQUIPMENT MONITORING

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has performed a 2-year evaluation of the performance of an in-house developed consumer electronics-based data acquisition system (DAS). The main advantage of this approach compared to conventional instrumentation grade systems is cost; instrument grade data acquisition systems average costs range from $800 to $2000 per channel compared to a range of $200 – 400 per channel for a consumer electronics-based system.