1. Adding Plant Water Uptake Monitoring to a Low-Cost Wireless Multi-Sensor Data Aggregation Platform for Precision Agriculture

Most low-cost precision agriculture monitoring systems only measure soil conditions such as moisture and pH, leaving plant response to water availability unmonitored. Soil moisture alone does not indicate whether a crop is taking up water or experiencing stress. Commercial plant-sensing systems that could fill this gap are expensive and operate as standalone instruments that are difficult to incorporate into existing multi-sensor field networks.  A... K. Wing, D. Onyeoguzoro, M. Everett, J.C. Shovic