INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE

DATA LOGGING
EXPERIMENT : SOUND SENSOR

NAMA

1.SITI NOR LIYANA BINTI MOHD

TASRIB
2. NUR FATIN INSYIRAH BINTI

NO MATRIK

MOHAMED PUAID
1.D20161073940

KUMPULAN
NAMA PENSYARAH

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EN AZMI BIN IBRAHIM

EMPOWER
Planning and doing your experiment.
1. Setup: Build a 'room' to house a sound source. Place a sound sensor a fixed distance
away from the sound source.
2. Procedure:
i)
Place the datalogger approximately 1 meter away from a sound source as
shown in figure 1. Your sound source could be a speaker from a computer, a bell
or any other device that creates a constant sound volume. It is important that this
sound produces a similar sound each and every time, to ensure consistency of our
experiment.

ii)
iii)

FIGURE 1
Start generating sounds and observe the graph of the sound level generated.
This is what is commonly called the base line, or control experiment, as it
indicates what range of values we expect to see with no additional constraints.

iv)

The following graph in figure 2 show a sample of data collected as a control

experiment with the hospital beeper as the sound source.

FIGURE 2
v)

Now place your room around the sound source as in figure 3 and run the
experiment again.
Be careful not to change the distance between the NXT and the sound

vi)

source. Feel free to experiment with the design.

Compare your new set of data with your original results.

FIGURE 3

Result:

FIGURE 2
By overlaying the second set of data with our original control graph, we can see that the
acoustic room we constructed reduces the volume measured by the Sound Sensor.
DISCUSSION
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Does the thickness of the material make a difference?

What can you observed from the graph?
What happen if the distance between the NXT and the sound source is changed?
Give example of sensor in engineering system that are similar to data logger sound
sensor?

ENHANCE

Discuss the importance of sound sensor in our daily life.

1) Used in measurement and as detectors in such applications as industrial, medical,
robotics, and identification and tracking.
2) Industrial sensor- Ultrasonic sensors are used to detect the existence of objects (digital)
and distance (analog) in factory automation and processing.
3) Medical sensor- Our most familiar experience of medical ultrasound sensors is during
pregnancy.
4) Identification and tracking- Ultrasound ID (USID) is a real-time locating system
technology used to automatically track and identify the location of objects in real-time
using simple, inexpensive nodes attached to or embedded into objects and devices
that transmit an ultrasound signal to communicate location to microphone sensors.
5) Robotic sensor- Ultrasound is reliable in any lighting condition. It can be used indoors
or out. It is fast enough to take care of collision avoidance for a robot, but not fast enough
to track a flying object like a ball. It can handle being moved or shaken, as long as the
motion is not very fast. It is so flexible that it can be reliably positioned on a rolling or
walking robot, or placed on a moving articulated sensor pod.
EXTENSION
Run the experiment again, but this time, try some of the following materials

Packing foam

Sponge foam

Cloth

Wood

Paper

UNIQUE FEATURES

Repetition of activity can also be carried out due to the quick completion for each

type of the surface used in this experiment

We can observed that an obstacles makes the sound vibration we heard decreased
REFFERENCES