Design & implementation of an efficient windmill anemometer for wind speed measurement using microcontroller

Abstract

Direction & speed, these are the important parameters to characterize the wind condition of the environment. In our paper, we tried to build a microcontroller based efficient anemometer. Though, in the market, there are several models is existed for anemometer, in our design we have used microcontroller PIC 18F2550 to control the circuit that's making the design more efficient & cost efficient along with the model is a windmill type. A wind sensor is used to sense the wind speed and it is fixed to the shaft with a segmented wheel. When the wind blows, the wind sensor sense the wind and the shaft start to rotate continuously relative with wind speed. In the practical environment, our design shows the improved & efficient result.