Soil moisture monitoring stations make irrigation more sophisticated

The Soil Moisture Monitoring Station is an automated device to measure soil moisture and temperature. It consists of a sensor, a data collector, a communication module and a power supply system that automatically collects data and sends it to a remote monitoring centre. This equipment is useful in areas such as agriculture, forestry and environmental protection.

Soil moisture sensors commonly use frequency domain reflectometry (FDR) or time domain reflectometry (TDR) to determine the soil's dielectric constant, a value that is subsequently used to calculate the proportion of water in the soil. As for soil temperature measurements, thermistors or semiconductor sensors are mostly used to sense the heat of the soil.

The data collected by these monitoring stations are initially processed by a data collector and then transmitted to a remote server using a wireless communication module. Users, no matter where they are, can access this soil data in real time as long as they have Internet access, providing instant information for agricultural irrigation, environmental monitoring, and so on.

Soil moisture monitoring stations are widely used in agricultural fields, such as farmland, orchards and forests, to provide real-time soil moisture information to farmers, assisting them in making more accurate irrigation and fertiliser decisions.

These monitoring devices are also a valuable resource for research institutes and educational institutions, where they play an important role in academic research projects and agricultural teaching programmes, helping students and researchers to better understand the effects of soil moisture on crop growth.