For two years, manufacturing designer Ehsan Soltan of American Falls collaborated with farmers to develop and test a wireless soil sensor in Southeast Idaho fields. Farmers wanted a durable device to ...

Around the Hackaday bunker, any plant other than a cactus has a real chance of expiring due to thirst. Perhaps we should build some of [MakersFunDuck]’s Moisture Duck boards. As you can see in the ...

AMES, Iowa – The satellite images are full of red warnings: Miles and miles of bright red along the Louisiana coast; boiling reds covering most of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. The images show harmful ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday its engineers have developed low-cost soil sensors that allow for real-time, continuous monitoring of soil nutrition. The ...

Bioengineering professor Shalini Prasad (left), Vikram Narayanan Dhamu, doctor of bioengineering (center) and graduate student Mohammed Eldeeb hold parts of a device they developed to measure soil ...

A row crop planter towed behind a tractor. TerraBlaster aims to put a high-precision laser sensor on the back of such equipment to determine soil nutrient composition in real time. The St. Louis-based ...

Soil moisture sensors can help farmers save water, by letting them know when their crops actually need to be watered. A new sensor could be particularly helpful, as it incorporates a special material ...

Soil moisture measurement is fundamental to understanding hydrological processes, crop water dynamics, and broader environmental monitoring. Recent advancements have driven the development of ...

For two years, manufacturing designer Ehsan Soltan of American Falls collaborated with farmers to develop and test a wireless soil sensor in Southeast Idaho fields. Farmers wanted a durable device to ...