MXChip IoT DevKit and HTS221 Humidity & Temperature sensor

As stated in a previous article about the MXChip IoT DevKit it contains several sensors including a HTS221 Humidity & Temperature sensor. You can see this in the image of the board below

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Lets investigate the sensor

The HTS221 is an ultra-compact sensor for relative humidity and temperature. It includes a sensing element and a mixed signal ASIC to provide the measurement information through digital serial interfaces. The sensing element consists of a polymer dielectric planar capacitor structure capable of detecting relative humidity variations and is manufactured using a dedicated ST process.

Features

0 to 100% relative humidity range
Supply voltage: 1.7 to 3.6 V
Low power consumption: 2 μA @ 1 Hz ODR
Selectable ODR from 1 Hz to 12.5 Hz
High rH sensitivity: 0.004% rH/LSB
Humidity accuracy: ± 3.5% rH, 20 to +80% rH
Temperature accuracy: ± 0.5 °C,15 to +40 °C

Embedded 16-bit ADC
16-bit humidity and temperature output data
SPI and I²C interfaces

Parts

About $41 for the board

seeed studio MXChip AZ3166 IOT Developer Kit Compatible with Arduino

Code

This is for the Arduino IDE once you have added support for the MXChip

[codesyntax lang=”cpp”]

#include "HTS221Sensor.h"

DevI2C *i2c;
HTS221Sensor *sensor;
float humidity = 0;
float temperature = 0;
unsigned char id;

void setup() 
{
    i2c = new DevI2C(D14, D15);
    sensor = new HTS221Sensor(*i2c);
    // init the sensor
    sensor -> init(NULL);
}

void loop() 
{
    // enable
    sensor -> enable();
    // read id
    sensor -> readId(&id);
    Serial.printf("ID: %d\r\n", id);
    // get humidity
    sensor -> getHumidity(&humidity);
    Serial.print("Humidity: ");
    Serial.println(humidity);
    // get temperature
    sensor -> getTemperature(&temperature);
    Serial.print("Temperature: ");
    Serial.println(temperature);
    // disable the sensor
    sensor -> disable();
    // reset
    sensor -> reset();
    delay(1000);
}

[/codesyntax]

Open the serial monitor and you will see something like this

ID: 188
Humidity: 32.10
Temperature: 33.50
ID: 188
Humidity: 33.60
Temperature: 34.40
ID: 188
Humidity: 34.30
Temperature: 35.00

 

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