{"id":222,"date":"2023-09-13T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/?p=222"},"modified":"2023-09-13T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:48:06","slug":"soil-moisture-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/2023\/09\/13\/soil-moisture-sensor\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Moisture Sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/openiot.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_20230913_164454-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243\" style=\"width:1450px;height:820px\" width=\"1450\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openiot.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_20230913_164454-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/openiot.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_20230913_164454-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openiot.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_20230913_164454-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/openiot.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_20230913_164454-1536x868.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/openiot.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_20230913_164454-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/openiot.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_20230913_164454.jpg 1659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1450px) 100vw, 1450px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Soil moisture sensor deployed inside the CDOH lab<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This soil moisture sensor measures and transmits moisture content of the soil wirelessly over the existing <strong><em>LoRaWAN<\/em><\/strong> network. The sensor is programmed to measure the moisture level of the soil every 15 minutes and transmit to  Chirpstack server. Housed inside a <strong><em>3D printed PLA<\/em><\/strong> enclosure that resembles a mushroom,  this sensor has a capacitive dielectric sensor for measuring the water content in the soil. Applications of the sensor in agriculture includes irrigation automation, soil infiltration studies prior to farming, analysis of subsurface flow for terrain transformation planning &amp; crop water requirement research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Technologies Use<\/strong>d<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hardware<\/strong> : ULP LoRa Microcontroller Board, Groove capacitive moisture sensor<br><strong>Software<\/strong> : Arduino IDE 1.8.15<br><strong>Communication<\/strong> : LoRaWAN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This soil moisture sensor measures and transmits moisture content of the soil wirelessly over the existing LoRaWAN network. The sensor is programmed to measure the moisture level of the soil every 15 minutes and transmit to Chirpstack server. Housed inside a 3D printed PLA enclosure that resembles a mushroom, this sensor has a capacitive dielectric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openiot.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}