Does it make sense to register more than one sensor at my location?

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Hi,

I just started to build a ‘sensor-station’.

My starting point is the basic sensor design as published on the sensor community site.

I bought a couple of different Particulate sensors and temp/humidity/pressure sensors.

As I am interested in the measured values of the different sensors, and the impact of the placement of the sensors, I want to read out all the sensors at the same time to see the differences.

Just a couple of questions:

  • · Is advisable (possible) to connect more the one sensor on the NodeMCU ESP8266?
  • · Does it make sense, is it possible, to register more than one sensor on the sensor community network?
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I think it does. I have three registered. A sound meter combined with bme280 and sds011, a second sound meter and my geiger. And thinking about a second geiger as well.

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And what about 2-3 different dust sensors (same location) ?

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Why not! Quite a lot of PM sensors are supported.

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That sounds great. So you can compare the results. I run two sensors at the same location in order to compare the results.

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The present sensor is using the PMS5003, BME280 and the not on the site supported sensors for sound, LTR-559 light and MICS6814 gas.

I have on my desk some sensors waiting to be used:
the PM sensors SPS30, SENS55 and SDS011 and and a BME680.

I am planning to load all collected data in a Influx DB on my site as well as sending all data (as faras supported by sensor.community ).

A lot of work I guess…

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