Soil moisture is an important property for agriculture, but currently commercialized soil
moisture sensors are too expensive for many farmers. The objective of this study is to …

Energy harvesting (EH) technologies are useful for the semi-permanent operation of
wireless sensor networks, especially, for agricultural monitoring as the networks need to be …

Digitization of industrial processes using new technologies (IoT—Internet of Things, IoE—
Internet of Everything), including the agriculture industry, are globally gaining growing …

About 10% of the world's workforce is directly dependent on agriculture for income and
about 99% of food consumed by humans comes from farming. Agriculture is highly climate …

Successful precision agriculture decision making requires characterizing soil heterogeneity
at high spatiotemporal resolution in real-time in order to optimize input (such as water and …

As the demographic structure of the global population continues to shift toward an aging
population, caregivers encounter formidable obstacles in detecting wetness events and …

Precision agriculture is a potential candidate for enhancing productivity and conserving
water resources. In particular, irrigation activities can be optimized by collecting soil …

In this paper, we present a novel approach to the realization of a battery-free soil profile
probe that uses the temperature difference between the near-surface air and the …

In this work, we study the suitability of a coplanar capacitor (CPC) for a low-cost soil
volumetric water content (VWC) sensor in the context of vegetable growing automation. As …

In this paper, we present a novel approach to realizing a battery-free soil pro le probe that
uses the temperature difference between the near-surface air and the underground soil as …