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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Measure light (lux) with LDR on AVR Atmega using LDR library 01

A photoresistor or light dependent resistor (LDR) is a resistor whose resistance decreases with increasing incident light intensity; in other words, it exhibits photoconductivity.
The lux (symbol: lx) is the SI unit of illuminance and luminous emittance, measuring luminous flux per unit area.


This library implements a way to estimate lux given a LDR resistance value read from an ADC input pin of an AVR Atmega.
The estimation is based on this formula:
lux = A*((R/B)^C)
where R is the LDR resistance.
An Excel spreadsheet is provided to help the estimation of A, B and C values. You have to read lux values using a calibrated luxmeter, and the R values of your LDR, write it down on the Excel sheet, and estimate A, B and C, power regression can help you estimating values.

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6 comments:

  1. UnknownJuly 30, 2014 at 7:08 AM

    lux = A*((R/B)^C)
    What's meaning in above formula

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    1. Davide GironiJuly 30, 2014 at 1:04 PM

      Hello, that's a power regression.R is the LDR resistance, A, B and C are values dependant on the LDR model.

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  2. UnknownMarch 10, 2015 at 9:28 AM

    Hello Davide,

    I'm Song and nice to meet you. May I ask you for a few question? please.

    For your excel spreadsheet can use for any LDR or not?
    Could you suggest me how to estimate the A, B, C and formula?

    Thank you so much,
    Song.

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    1. Davide GironiMarch 10, 2015 at 8:41 PM

      Hello.
      Write down some values read from a calibrated lux meter. And the values of the resistence of your LDR exposed to the same amount of light of the lux meter sensor. Then, you could use matlab and do power regression, or simply put the value you read in the spreasdheet provided and by hand try to find the best A, B, C parameter to fit the curve for your LDR. Hope this helps.

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    2. UnknownMarch 16, 2015 at 2:03 AM

      Hello Davide,

      I got it. I'll try follow your suggestions.
      Thank you so much.

      Song,

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  3. UnknownJanuary 13, 2017 at 5:38 PM

    easier equation to fit for a log-log (power) behaviour is:
    Lux=R^a*10^b, only 2 fit parameters (a,b), hence it will faster converge even with very off-start values.

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