Bme680 housing and designing in our box for external use.

[vishveshs843]

We are developing an environmental product,

In which we are using one of your chips BME680 for measurement of Temp, pressure, humidity and IAQ.

We have some following questions:

1) Our product will be placed in an open environment, do you suggest that we use BME680 for outdoor parameters sensing?

2) If yes, can you help us, how it should be placed in casing, any specific suggestions by your side.

3) if no, can you suggest some alternative for outdoor environmental sensing.

4) IAQ mentioned in bme680 does it stands for index of air quality?/ how accurate it will be if placed outside.

And also I am sharing a picture of the side of box we are planning to put the bme680 onbme680 placed inside box.

Please provide with your suggestions on the above topic.

Thanks in advance.

[BSTRobin]

Hello vishveshs843,

For open environment, you can add waterproof membrane on the outside of bme680 to ensure that the structure of your product is waterproof.
In the upper layer of bme680 driver software, BSEC library provides higher-level signal processing and fusion for the BME680. BSEC precisely performs several calculations outside the device such as ambient air temperature, ambient relative humidity, pressure and air quality (IAQ) level.