TY - GEN
T1 - A technology review and field testing of a soil water quality monitoring system
AU - Afridi, Waqas A. K.
AU - Akhter, Fowzia
AU - Vitoria, Ignacio
AU - Mukhopadhyay, S. C.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Soil water quality is one of the most influential factors in ensuring the productivity of agricultural farms. Soil water quality and soil quality are hugely dependent on each other. Hence, it is essential to have a clear understanding of the essential soil quality parameters and the existing technologies to detect those parameters. This paper briefly discusses the vital soil quality parameters for their significance towards fostering sustainable agriculture. Moreover, a technology review of recent studies has been critically analyzed, and their strengths and weaknesses have been addressed. Moreover, an Internet of Things (IoT)- enabled low-cost, low-power soil monitoring system has been proposed to overcome the drawbacks of the existing technologies. The initially developed system has been deployed in a residential garden for preliminary testing and results. However, the findings of the proposed system satisfy the expected outcome as the testing soil parameters, such as soil moisture content and temperature, vary accordingly with the increase in depth underneath the surface. Also, environmental parameters such as ambient temperature, carbon dioxide and humidity vary expectedly over day and night. Data obtained from this system will be beneficial to derive realistic water-balance estimations and sustainable agriculture decision-making.
AB - Soil water quality is one of the most influential factors in ensuring the productivity of agricultural farms. Soil water quality and soil quality are hugely dependent on each other. Hence, it is essential to have a clear understanding of the essential soil quality parameters and the existing technologies to detect those parameters. This paper briefly discusses the vital soil quality parameters for their significance towards fostering sustainable agriculture. Moreover, a technology review of recent studies has been critically analyzed, and their strengths and weaknesses have been addressed. Moreover, an Internet of Things (IoT)- enabled low-cost, low-power soil monitoring system has been proposed to overcome the drawbacks of the existing technologies. The initially developed system has been deployed in a residential garden for preliminary testing and results. However, the findings of the proposed system satisfy the expected outcome as the testing soil parameters, such as soil moisture content and temperature, vary accordingly with the increase in depth underneath the surface. Also, environmental parameters such as ambient temperature, carbon dioxide and humidity vary expectedly over day and night. Data obtained from this system will be beneficial to derive realistic water-balance estimations and sustainable agriculture decision-making.
KW - Groundwater
KW - soil quality parameters
KW - IoT
KW - smart sensing systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85159490576&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-29871-4_47
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-29871-4_47
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85159490576
SN - 9783031298707
SN - 9783031298738
T3 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
SP - 460
EP - 475
BT - Sensing technology
A2 - Suryadevara, Nagender Kumar
A2 - George, Boby
A2 - Jayasundera, Krishanthi P.
A2 - Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra
PB - Springer, Springer Nature
CY - Cham
T2 - 15th International Conference on Sensing Technology, ICST 2022
Y2 - 5 December 2022 through 7 December 2022
ER -