Ever wanted to measure soil moisture? Common “soil moisture meter ... what it takes to build a soil-embedded sensor that can actually survive contact with a plant. As the picture might hint ...

a 2022 paper by Maja Škiljo and colleagues in Sensors covers an interesting way to make use of this signal attenuation property of changing moisture levels in soil. By quantifying the exact ...

Screen-printed, biodegradable soil sensors that can be composted at the end of their lifecycle could enable farmers to improve crop yields while reducing electronic waste, researchers say.

Researchers at Purdue University are creating soil sensors that will gather that data to train AI. “Right now, a soil moisture sensor, you’d have about 1 of those per 100 acres. In the future, you ...