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

doi:10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984948

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

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE SENSORS
Pages	122-125
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6984948
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2014
Event	13th IEEE SENSORS Conference, SENSORS 2014 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 02 Nov 2014 → 05 Nov 2014

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Conference	13th IEEE SENSORS Conference, SENSORS 2014
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Valencia
Period	02/11/2014 → 05/11/2014

Keywords

Wireless sensor networks
Wireless Sensing
Backscatter
Backscatter sensor networks
microwaves

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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

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