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    Soil sensorApplications and Usage Examples

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    Main Applications

    • Monitoring soil temperature, water content, and fertilizer content over the long term in agriculture
    • Controlling irrigation systems in agriculture
    • Monitoring water quality in rivers, lakes, and marshes over the long term
    • Controlling water quality in aquaculture ponds
    • Studying soil/water quality

    Usage examples in smart agriculture

    Murata’s soil sensors can be applied as a crop quality improvement solution or environmental solution providing additional value by visualizing the soil.

    Challenges in agricultural environments

    Declining / aging working population in agriculture

    Reliance on experience and instinct, inconsistent yields

    Wasted resources (e.g. water, fertilizer)

    Climate change-induced food resource crises

    Murata soil sensor solutions for sustainable agriculture

    There are many smart agricultural solutions to choose from, but only Murata soil sensors help users overcome the challenges of agricultural environments by visualizing the intuition of expert farmers, specifically their sense for the textures and tastes that the soil will yield.

    Image of Murata soil sensor solutions for sustainable agriculture Source: Revised and added to an excerpt of Smart nogyo ga jitsugen suru arata na nogyo no sugata (New Forms of Agriculture Actualized by Smart Agriculture) (Yasufumi Miwa, The Japan Research Institute, Limited, January 2017)

    Benefits of using soil sensors in smart agriculture

    What goes on underground is an uncharted territory in terms of data utilization. Among a myriad of agricultural sensors around, Murata soil sensors can clearly analyze complex soil information.

    1. Visualized soil data can help deliver optimal amounts of water and fertilizer for the crop to the soil, based on quantitative data instead of past experience and intuition. This can improve yield and quality.
    2. Sharing data from high-yield achievement as model data within the region can bring increased yield across the region. Increased yield leads to improvements in profitability and income, which also contributes to lowering the barrier for new farmers. Making agriculture an attractive industry with such efforts can achieve sustainability of the industry through generations.
    3. Irrigation in the open field costs time and labor. By planning irrigation based on sensor data and weather forecasts, you can prevent wasted labor.
    4. Supplying the appropriate amount of water and fertilizer resources prevents wasteful use of resources as well as contamination of soil, river, and ocean, contributing to building a sustainable environment.
    Introductory Document and Datasheet Download

    You can download an introductory document and datasheet. The introductory document summarizes the detailed strengths of soil sensors and demonstration experiment examples. The datasheet describes the detailed uses of these soil sensors.
    Please utilize these documents when considering these products.

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    Features of Murata’s Soil Sensor

    Learn about the details of the features of soil sensors that can simultaneously measure the electrical conductivity (EC) of soil, volumetric water content (VWC), and temperature.
    Examples of adoption

    Here are some examples of soil sensor adoption and application.
    Proving Tests

    An example of demonstration experiment using soil sensors is also provided.
    Introductory Document and Datasheet Download

    You can download an introductory document and datasheet. The introductory document summarizes the detailed strengths of soil sensors and demonstration experiment examples. The datasheet describes the detailed uses of these soil sensors.
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