Effective land and water management is crucial for achieving sustainable natural resource use and leveraging ecosystems services for maintaining healthy landscapes. Accurate soil moisture data is essential for making informed decisions that maximize water use efficiency, improve crop yields, and plant health, and support sustainable practices. Sensoterra’s philosophy revolves around providing actionable insights through our advanced soil moisture sensors and data-driven solutions.
We often see Sensoterra users take a stepwise approach to understand and manage their soil moisture data effectively. Our process consists of three key steps: monitoring, integrating, and automating. Each step is designed to help users to make smarter decisions regarding their land and water resources.
Step 1: Monitor the Data—Uncovering the Hidden World of Soil Moisture
The first step is to monitor the data. With Sensoterra’s simple, maintenance free sensors and the basic Sensoterra Monitor app, users can validate their experience with real-time, interpreted soil moisture data. Out of the box, our sensors provide ‘uncalibrated’ volumetric water content percentages. This isn’t just raw data; our software provides calibrated readings specific to the soil type, offering a clear picture of plant available water, based on the contextual parameters of soil composition.
Understanding the behavior of soil moisture is essential for effective management. Factors such as capillary rise—where water moves upward from deeper soil layers—and matric potential, which describes how tightly water is held within the soil (how easily a root can take up water), are crucial for optimizing irrigation and land use decisions. Sensoterra’s app reveals these unseen processes, providing valuable insights in plant available water, that enable users to tailor their management practices based on the specific needs of their crops or landscapes.
Step 2: Integrate the Data—Enhancing Water Management Practices
Once users have a handle on how soil moisture data reflects the interaction of water and soil, the next step is to integrate this data into broader systems. Sensoterra’s Open API allows for seamless data integration into platforms designed for various land uses, including farming, landscaping, and orchards.
This integration empowers users to connect their soil moisture data with other essential information sources, such as weather stations, forecasting tools, satellite imagery, drone imaging, and additional sensors. By creating a comprehensive view of soil and water dynamics, users can make informed decisions about irrigation scheduling, reducing the risk of over-irrigation and ensuring optimal water use.
Step 3: Automate the Process—Smart Irrigation for Optimal Water Use
After monitoring and integrating the data, the next step is automation. Sensoterra’s solutions enable users to automate irrigation processes by combining soil moisture sensor data with smart valves, flow meters, pumps and other data sources. This integration allows irrigation systems to automatically adjust water application based on real-time data, ensuring plants receive the optimal amount of water at the right time.
Automated systems also offer the advantage of detecting issues like malfunctioning irrigation lines or hardware problems, sending notifications to users when intervention is needed. This proactive approach saves time and resources, enhances water efficiency, and reduces manual intervention, making water management more effective and less labor-intensive. For instance, in large-scale farming operations, automated irrigation not only conserves water but also boosts crop yields by maintaining ideal soil moisture levels consistently.
Why Sensoterra?
Our soil moisture sensors offer several distinct advantages:
- Durability and Accuracy Sensoterra sensors are built to last and provide precise data, ensuring optimal soil moisture levels.
- Easy Integration: Our API-first approach allows seamless integration with various platforms, giving users the flexibility to customize their water management systems.
- Advanced Monitoring: Users can create detailed models of soil moisture across different root zone depths, enabling precise irrigation.
- Scalability: Our sensors are scalable, making them suitable for both small and large areas.
- Long-Lasting Performance: With a lifespan of 5-8 years, Sensoterra sensors offer reliable, maintenance-free performance.
Sensoterra provides hardware and software solutions for interpreted soil moisture data. By leveraging calibrated soil moisture data, integrating various information sources, and automating irrigation processes, we empower farmers, landscapers, and water managers to make more informed, data-driven decisions. This leads to better irrigation efficiency, healthier crops, plants and soil, and more sustainable practices across the board.
By adopting Sensoterra’s stepwise approach to soil moisture management, users can transform how they manage land and water resources. With our innovative, scalable solutions, together we can achieve greater water efficiency, improve plant health, and promote sustainable practices, all while making the most of the valuable resources beneath your feet.
About Sensoterra
Sensoterra develops low-cost, simple, and robust wireless soil moisture sensors, providing actionable insights that enable water management platforms and solutions. Our sensors are built to integrate into any platform with our unique ‘API first’ philosophy – offering freedom and flexibility for data integration. It is our mission to enable water management platforms and solutions worldwide. We help by ‘Making Sense of Water’. We produce simple, robust, and low-cost wireless soil moisture sensors that are easy to deploy and built to integrate. With proven success in the applications of smart city landscaping, environmental monitoring, and precision agriculture, the Sensoterra solution integrates seamlessly in existing water and land management platforms.
Learn more at www.sensoterra.com
Contact for more information, pictures and/or interview requests:
Jessica Nuboer
Marketing & Communications
Sensoterra
Email: [email protected]
