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In order to properly work, every distributed system need to know several parameters about local metrological devices. Some of these parameters may change because of environmental factors such as vibrations, thermal change or other accidental reasons. For this reason, a careful calibration activity is needed to achieve the best accuracy. During this phase, which can be automated to some extent, the system calculates information like network device positions and bearings, local temperature, humidity, pressure and so on. All this information is used during the measurement phase. Errors during the calibration phase adversely affect the accuracy of the measurements.
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A dividing engine is a device specifically employed to mark graduations on measuring instruments (Daumas 1989). dividing engine
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A weighing scale, in general, is a measuring instrument for determining the weight or mass of an object (Daumas 1989). weighing scale
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The term “base quantity” base quantity is defined by JCGM as the “quantity, chosen by convention, used to define other quantities” (JCGM 100:2008 2008).
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Franceschini, F., Galetto, M., Maisano, D., Mastrogiacomo, L., Pralio, B. (2011). System Calibration calibration . In: Distributed Large-Scale Dimensional Metrology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-543-9_5
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