Wireless Soil Moisture Sensor Networks For Precision Irrigation Scheduling

We describe the deployment of a wireless sensor network wsn composed of 135 soil moisture and 27 temperature sensors in an apple tree orchard of about 5000 m 2 located in the municipality of cles a small town in the alpine region northeastern italy the orchard is divided into three parcels each one subjected to a different irrigation schedule.

Wireless soil moisture sensor networks for precision irrigation scheduling.

Wireless soil moisture sensor networks wsns are then positioned into these zones to monitor wetting and drying events for precision irrigation scheduling. Intelligently designed as a drop in replacement for dumb irrigation controllers eve consists of both a hub to. To conserve power the sensor nodes relayed data to the bs every 15 min through the greatest energy efficient route. The nodes in the on field sensor network communicate among themselves using radio frequency rf links of industrial scientific and medical ism radio bands such as 902 928 mhz and 2 4 2 5 ghz.

For irrigation scheduling the soil water content measured using soil moisture sensors current soil water content is compared to the soil water content at field capacity to calculate the total water depletion in the soil profile. A site specific wireless sensor based irrigation control system is a potential solution to optimize yields and maximize water use efficiency for fields with variation in water availability due to. The field consists of sensor nodes powered with application specific on board sensors. In this study an arduino based wireless sensor network system was developed and tested to monitor volumetric soil water content using decagon ec 5 sensors.

1 depicts a typical wireless sensor network deployed on field for agricultural applications. Plaid systems spruce irrigation 16 zone wifi sprinkler controller gen 2 compatible with alexa wireless soil moisture sensors leak detection flow meter 4 2 out of 5 stars 47 174 99 174. The system uses a start topology in which a variable number of sensor field nodes each with a unique address can send data to a central receiver. Wireless sensor nodes used in this study operate on license free radio frequency with mesh networking capability self organising and self healing.

The vwc measurements provided by the soil moisture sensor after 12 24 hours of heavy irrigation or rain is the. Eve the first creation of plaid systems may not be the genesis of the smart irrigation controller market but when paired with their adam soil moisture sensor has nicely filled a gap in the market where others have aimed their focus solely on providing connected controllers. Developed a wsn soil moisture mapping and monitoring method to provide information for irrigation scheduling.