Soil Sensors Offer Growers Clearer Picture of Crop Performance
Ehsan Soltan had a career in telecommunications before his family connections drew him to Idaho where he began searching for solutions to the problems local farmers faced.
Four years ago, Ehsan created the company Soiltech Wireless who have developed a sensing device that transmits data on soil moisture, humidity, location, and the impacts that can cause bruising, throughout the lifecycle of the crop.
The device uses network technology which feeds the data back to an app on the farmer’s phone.
Ehsan said: “What stood out to me is that farmers would go and feel the dirt with their hands to judge the moisture and decide whether to irrigate the crop.
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“Whilst you cannot replace those hands, I thought we could help those hands to be in more places at once, so I set about creating a wireless soil moisture sensor so that producers could manage multiple fields remotely”.
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https://www.farminguk.com/news/soil-sensors-offer-growers-clearer-picture-of-crop-performance_57516.html
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