A novel low-cost open-hardware platform for monitoring soil water content and multiple soil-air-vegetation parameters

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 19639-19659

  Bitella, Giovanni ^a   Rossi, Roberta ^b   Bochicchio, Rocco ^a   Perniola, Michele ^a   Amato, Mariana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arduino; Contactless temperature sensor; Infrared thermometry; Microcontroller; Multi sensor platform; Open hardware; Soil water content; Wireless data

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COSTS; HARDWARE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MICROCONTROLLERS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOIL MOISTURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; WEB SERVICES;

ARDUINO; CONTACTLESS TEMPERATURE SENSORS; INFRARED THERMOMETRY; MULTI-SENSOR PLATFORMS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; WIRELESS DATA;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84908537939     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s141019639     Document Type: Article

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