Reliance on technology for improvement is integral for all industries to streamline operations or to meet consumer expectations. Agritech is witnessing similar trends. A trend with a heavy impact on agritech is wireless soil sensing.
Soil culture is critical for an agritech professional to improve production and drive overall revenue. Farmers require granular information on soil quality to meet climate, energy, and yield challenges. Wireless connected soil sensors guarantee quality data sets relying on which agritech professionals and farmers can procure detailed and precise data to arrive at better decisions and enhance efficiency.
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Technically, wireless sensors determine if a crop or soil’s physical property is present and determine the component’s extent of presence. This indicates that air, moisture, humidity, fertility and temperature, and other factors that affect crop yield can be known efficiently and accurately. As a result, there is no need to rely on heavy equipment, wires, or chords.
The Process
There are no standard practices regarding placing sensors on the field or the number of sensors placed in a particular spot. Yet, sensing locations with varying yield potential are critical to deriving more precise data that can be relied upon immediately. On average, two depths and at least three well-selected locations must be monitored. It is possible to analyze how soil texture and behavior vary in selected places. Any underlying issues could be monitored and understood easily.
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Although moisture profiling, water infiltration speed, and drainage performance are essential factors, numerical values regarding these can be challenging to interpret often. Therefore, monitoring soil at various depths across locations produces data worth interpreting.