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Temperature compensated and soil density calibrated soil

moisture profiling sensor with multi-sensing point for in-situ
agriculture application
Kamlesh S. Patle 1, Vishvesh Panchal 1, Riya Saini, Yash Agrawal, Vinay S. Palaparthy

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Highlights
• Soil moisture sensor with multi-sensing points (SMSMSP), with scalable design
which measures the soil moisture from 5 cm to 25 cm.

• Temperature compensated and calibrated for different soil dry bulk density.

• Low power interface electronics along with IoT enabled feature and data on the
cloud server.

Abstract
In this work, we have fabricated a dielectric based soil moisture sensor with multi-sensing
points (SMSMSP), which comprises of five interdigitated electrodes on both side of printed
circuit board (PCB). Thickness of the fabricated SMSMSP is about 1.6 mm and light weight
(0.1 kg), hence easy to carry for the field measurements. Further, we calibrated the sensor for
different soil dry bulk density and observed that the time taken by the soil moisture to
penetrate from soil surface till 25 cm is around 10 mins and 57 mins when density is
maintained at 1.1 gm/cc and 1.3 gm/cc, respectively. We observed that the SMSMSP output

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changes only by 2.7 % when the ambient temperature varies from 20 °C to 60 °C. Both lab and
field deployments results indicate that measured soil water content using SMSMSP at
different depths is within ± 3% when compared with the gravimetric method.

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Keywords
Capacitive soil moisture sensor; Multi-sensing points; IoT enabled moisture sensor;
Field deployments; In-situ agriculture applications

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