ONTARIO, Ore. — As Oregon State University researcher Udayakumar Sekaran sees it, soil-moisture sensors help farmers irrigate more efficiently but are limited by the wires to which they are attached.

It’s not infrequent that we see the combination of moisture sensors and water pumps to automate plant maintenance. Each one has a unique take on the idea, though, and solves problems in ways that ...

Ali Abedi (center) and the wireless soil moisture sensor with graduate student Kenneth Bundy (left) and local high school teacher Ed Lindsey (right). Monitoring soil moisture is an important component ...

(Nanowerk News) Increasingly limited land and water resources has inspired the development of precision agriculture: use of remote sensing technology to monitor air and soil environmental data in real ...

A frequent beginner project involves measuring soil moisture levels by measuring its resistance with a couple of electrodes. These electrodes are available ready-made as PCBs, but suffer badly from ...

Farmers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are reducing water use and improving crop productivity through the use of modern soil moisture ...

Real-time data from soil sensors helps K-P farmers end irrigation guesswork, saving water by 30%, cutting fuel costs ...

The success of precision agriculture relies heavily on the use of pumped groundwater to irrigate crops. However, recent years have seen trends of depletion in many groundwater sources where ...

Bioengineering professor Shalini Prasad (left), Vikram Narayanan Dhamu, doctor of bioengineering (center) and graduate student Mohammed Eldeeb hold parts of a device they developed to measure soil ...