Smart Bluetooth Stakes: Deployment of Soil Moisture Sensors with Rotating High-Gain Antenna Receiver on Center Pivot Irrigation Boom in a Commercial Wheat Field.

ABSTRACT: Realization of the goals of precision agriculture is dependent on prescribing irrigation strategies matched to spatiotemporal variations in soil moisture on commercial farms. However, the scale at which these variations occur is not well understood. A high-spatial-density network of sensors with the ability to measure and report data over the course of a growing season is needed. In this work, design of the low-profile Smart Bluetooth Stake spatiotemporal soil moisture mapping system is presented. Smart stakes use Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate 64 MHz soil moisture impedance measurements from ground level to a receiver mounted on the center-pivot irrigation boom and equipped with a rotating high-gain parabolic antenna. Smart stakes can remain in the ground throughout the entire growin

SUBMITTER: Craven S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12431093 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature