Moisture Sensors And Their Importance In The Agricultural Industry

It is not necessary at all to be an expert in agriculture or to have green fingers in order to know that water is essential for a healthy plant growth. Water provides plants and crops with the ability to absorb the minerals and nutrients that are present in the soil and, together with the appropriate sun light do the process of photosynthesis we have all studied at school.

Whenever plants receive the amount of water they require ?they grow healthily but when they are deprived of water they suffer from stress, turn yellower, dry out and finally die. For any of us who has a small balcony with a couple of plants it can sometimes be trickier to know exactly when a plant needs water and, what is even more difficult, determine the correct amount of water it needs. Thus, we touch the soil to see if it is wet or dry and end up pouring some water on it at least twice a week.

It is easy to imagine that, if knowing when a small plant in a flower pot needs watering is difficult, knowing when and how much a crop or a large garden needs watering is even more complex. If crops are not taken care properly, they can get lost and farmers can lose a lot of money. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to know when and how much to water them. In such complex scenario, there is no room for guessing. And this is exactly why moisture analysers, also usually referred to as moisture sensors, play such a significant role. In fact, many a time the experts that are in charge of large crops or gardens usually pair their moisture sensors with their irrigation channels. Thus, when the moisture analyser detects that the soil is dry enough to require watering, the irrigation system is automatically triggered.

Moisture sensors or humidity analysers are highly sensitive devices that estimate the humidity present in a certain product or item, whether it is potato chips, coffee beans, house paint or soil. In the particular case of soil humidity analysers, these devices report how much water is present in the soil by means of determining the soil's ability to transmit electricity. The wetter the soil is, the more electricity the soil will be able to transmit. Thus, it is really easy for agriculture experts to read the reports and know if the crops needs to be watered and, if they do, how much water they need. If these sensitive devices are used in combination with an automatic irrigation system such as water sprinklers or similar technologies, the irrigation system can be automatically triggered when the humidity sensor detects that the ability of the soil to transmit electricity is below the optimum standard and then are ?automatically stopped once the sensor determines that the standard has been reached again.

Eduard Writing for Moisture Sensors

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