Design and Construction of an Automatic Soil Moisture Sensor

Student: Abdurrahman Abdulwahid (Project, 2025)
Department of Electrical /Electronics Engineering
Kano State Polytechnic, Kano, Kano State

Abstract

This work is on soil moisture sensor. Soil moisture sensors measure the volumetric water content in soil. Since the direct gravimetric measurement of free soil moisture requires removing, drying, and weighing of a sample, soil moisture sensors measure the volumetric water content indirectly by using some other property of the soil, such as electrical resistance, dielectric constant, or interaction with neutrons, as a proxy for the moisture content.The relation between the measured property and soil moisture must be calibrated and may vary depending on environmental factors such as soil type, temperature, or electric conductivity. Reflected microwave radiation is affected by the soil moisture and is used for remote sensing in hydrology and agriculture. Portable probe instruments can be used by farmers or gardeners. Soil moisture sensors typically refer to sensors that estimate volumetric water content. However, this work focuses on building of soil moisture sensor.

Keywords
soil moisture sensor water pump soil probe arduino switch signal display bread board.
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