Connecting multiple DHT 11 sensors

Question

I want to collect data (both Humidity & Temperature) from 80 sensors. let's say I have 80 "DHT 11 Humidity & Temperature" sensors (for ex. in a warehouse) and one Arduino Uno R3 pack. It's clear that arduino has no so many pins to connect. I'm sorry that I don't know if it's possible. If so, what can I use to achieve this? Thank you all for your suggestions.

• Eldar Zeynalov: Probably it may be possible with multiplexing but I don't know which multiplexer to use and how to connect multiplexer :(
• Gerben: 80 sensors would means some sensors will have a few tens of meters of wire. You'll run into data integrity issues with that long a cable. Also might I suggest the DS18B20. No humidity, but better precision. Every sensor has its own 64-bit unique address, so you can have multiple sensors on one data line. It doesn't even need a separate power line.

Answer 1

Analog multiplexers are one way, but they tend to have a significant resistance when on, and this could cause the protocol not to work.
For 80 channels you need 7 bits addressing. Say you have an 8-input multiplexer, then a 3-bit address indicates which of the 8 inputs is selected. Use 10 of these, all with the three address lines connected, and you have 10 outputs from 80 inputs. Next, use a 16-input multiplexer to select which of the 10 inputs you want to use. For this multiplexer you need 4 address lines. Together with the other 3 address lines you have 7 address lines, enough to select 1 of up to 128 sensors. But I repeat, this approach may not work if the multiplexer's resistance is too high.

A more robust (albeit more expensive) is to use analog switches to connect/disconnect each sensor. Analog switches (Analog Devices has a lot of them) have on-resistances down to < 1 ohm, so the sure should be OK for the application.
To control the long series of switches you could use a daisy chain of 74HC595 shift registers, which only requires a couple of I/Os on your controller, but gives you virtually unlimited outputs.

• Eldar Zeynalov: I think 74HC595 shift registers will be good choise :) thank you very much for your answer