Soil Moisture Sensor

Venture Category: Food and Agriculture

Community: Sensorica

Objectives

Traditionally, resistivity or capacitance are used to measure soil moisture. Open source moisture sensors that everyone uses with Arduinos are based on electrical resistance measurements. First, they are known to rust very fast. Second, soil conductivity in soils is very sensitive to ionic concentrations, or amount of salts for example. The goal of this project is to explore optical methods to measure moisture in soils.


The idea is to test a simple optical fiber-based moisture transducer.

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Planning

Status: Prototyping - dormant

Needs

  • electronics engineering

  • optical engineering

  • facilitation, coordination and outreach

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In prototyping. Project is currently dormant.

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