In this paper we propose a feedback architecture with a thermoresistive sensor, based on the thermal sigma-delta principle to realize digital measurement ofphysical quantities that interacts with the sensor: temperature, thermal radiation, fluid speed. This architecture uses a 1-bit sigma-delta modulator for which a considerable part of the conversion functions is performed by a thermoresistive sensor. The sensor is modelled using the electrical equivalence principle and the constant temperature measurement method is applied We present an analysis of the system performance, in terms of frequency response and system measurement resolution, of a 1-bit first-order Z7-J thermal modulator. It is shown that the system performance depends on the system oversampling ratio (OSR) and on the system transfer function pole and zero, which in turn, depends on the thermal and physical sensor characteristics and on the system operating conditions. This system is proposed as anemometer.