Soil moisture wireless sensing with analog scatter radio, low power, ultra-low cost and extended communication ranges

Spyridon Nektarios Daskalakis, Stylianos D. Assimonis, Eleftherios Kampianakis, Aggelos Bletsas

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Abstract

The measurement of the soil moisture is critical in agriculture. In this work a joint analog design of wireless transmitter with scatter radio and capacitive sensor for soil moisture is presented. The design is based on a custom microstrip capacitor, exploits bistatic analog scatter radio principles and is able to wirelessly convey soil moisture percentage by mass (% MP) with RMS error of 1.9%, power consumption and communication range on the order of 100 uWatts and 100 meters, respectively. It is tailored for ultra-low cost (5 Euro per sensor) agricultural sensor network applications for soil moisture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE SENSORS
Pages122-125
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2014
Event13th IEEE SENSORS Conference, SENSORS 2014 - Valencia, Spain
Duration: 02 Nov 201405 Nov 2014

Conference

Conference13th IEEE SENSORS Conference, SENSORS 2014
Country/TerritorySpain
CityValencia
Period02/11/201405/11/2014

Keywords

  • Wireless sensor networks
  • Wireless Sensing
  • Backscatter
  • Backscatter sensor networks
  • microwaves

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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