Wireless soil moisture sensor based on fringing capacitance

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 8-11

  Wobschall, Darold ^a   Lakshmanan, Deepak ^b  

^a Esensors Inc   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; MICROCONTROLLERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PERMITTIVITY;

BATTERY-OPERATED SENSOR; OPERATIONAL LIFE; SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR;

SENSORS;

EID: 33847284550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2005.1597624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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