Soil Water Status Monitoring System with Proximal Low-Cost Sensors and LoRa Technology for Smart Water Irrigation in Woody Crops
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.A new low-cost, open-source agricultural monitoring system was developed for vineyard irrigation management. This system effectively measures environmental and soil parameters, providing replicable results for efficient farm operations.
Area Of Science
- Agricultural Engineering
- Environmental Monitoring
- Sensor Technology
Background
- Farm operations like irrigation scheduling are heavily influenced by weather and soil water availability.
- Commercially available agricultural monitoring stations can be prohibitively expensive or fail to meet specific needs.
- Low-cost, open-source agricultural monitoring stations offer a viable alternative using DIY platforms.
Purpose Of The Study
- To design and implement a cost-effective environmental and soil parameter monitoring system for irrigation management in an experimental vineyard.
- To address the limitations of commercial solutions in terms of cost and specific functional requirements.
Main Methods
- Development of a sensor system based on the ESP32 chip and LoRa technology for node-to-gateway communication.
- Utilizing an ESP32-based gateway to upload data to an FTP server via Wi-Fi/4G and store it locally on a memory card.
- Programming the system using the Arduino IDE for both nodes and the gateway.
Main Results
- The developed low-cost sensor system proved effective for managing vineyard irrigation based on real-time sensor data.
- The system demonstrated replicable results, indicating its reliability for practical application.
- Calibration of capacitive soil water content sensors is crucial for enhancing accuracy across different soil types.
Conclusions
- The designed open-source monitoring system is an effective and replicable solution for vineyard irrigation management.
- Accurate soil water content measurement requires careful calibration of sensors to specific soil types.
- Optimizing irrigation requires adjusting system parameters to local conditions and specific vineyard objectives.
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