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Crop Root-Zone Irrigation Monitoring

Hub maps and trends compare depths, zones, seasons, alarms, water movement.

Soil Scout
Soil Scout
Vendor HQ: Finland · vendor page →
Industry
AgricultureCrops, Fields & GreenhousesIrrigation & Farm Infrastructure
Use cases
Environmental MonitoringIrrigation ControlProcess Optimization
Connectivity
4G
Deployment
Public SaaSEdge/Local
Services
InstallationSupport & MaintenanceData AnalyticsSoftware Platform
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Worldwide
The challenge

What operators are up against

Operators responsible for crop root zones at multiple depths and yield zones across irrigated or rain-fed production fields cannot continuously inspect every operating condition or developing fault. Periodic checks leave gaps between readings, while isolated local indicators provide limited history and context. A late response can cause downtime, safety exposure, equipment damage, or incomplete compliance evidence. Teams need timely measurements, clear exceptions, and a defined operating response.

The solution

How Crop Root-Zone Irrigation Monitoring addresses it

Crop Root-Zone Irrigation Monitoring combines installed sensing and application software to measure soil moisture, temperature, electrical conductivity, salinity, and optional oxygen by field zone. Hub maps and trends compare depths, zones, seasons, alarms, water movement, and soil recovery patterns. Operators use the resulting dashboard, alert, or workflow to farmers adjust irrigation, drainage, nutrients, fieldwork, and planting decisions for each field zone. This creates a repeatable response to the identified physical operating condition.

How it works

A team identifies the monitored assets and operating objective, installs the required components, and configures users, thresholds, schedules, or rules. During operation, the system measure soil moisture, temperature, electrical conductivity, salinity, and optional oxygen by field zone. It applies local or hosted logic so that Hub maps and trends compare depths, zones, seasons, alarms, water movement, and soil recovery patterns. The application presents the relevant state, history, exception, or recommendation. Operators and managers farmers adjust irrigation, drainage, nutrients, fieldwork, and planting decisions for each field zone, then review recurring patterns to improve the operating process.

SenseThe system measures soil moisture, temperature, electrical conductivity, salinity, and optional oxygen by field zone.
ConnectBuried Scouts use Soil Scout radio to reach the Base Station, which sends measurements over its cellular 4G modem to the hosted Soil Scout Hub.
AnalyzeHub maps and trends compare depths, zones, seasons, alarms, water movement, and soil recovery patterns.
ActFarmers adjust irrigation, drainage, nutrients, fieldwork, and planting decisions for each field zone.

Vendor documentation: vendor website

Evidence level: L1 · Vendor-stated: how evidence levels work

Uses this hardware

REQUIREDSoil Scout Hydra100 Sensor

Soil Scout Hydra100 Sensor

Soil Scout
SensorProprietary low-power wireless to Soil Scout Base Station; cellular backhaul at base station

Why teams choose it

Condition sensing

The system measures soil moisture, temperature, electrical conductivity, salinity, and optional oxygen by field zone

Cellular connectivity

Buried Scouts use Soil Scout radio to reach the Base Station, which sends measurements over its cellular 4G modem to the hosted Soil Scout Hub

Exception detection

Hub maps and trends compare depths, zones, seasons, alarms, water movement, and soil recovery patterns

Operational response

Farmers adjust irrigation, drainage, nutrients, fieldwork, and planting decisions for each field zone

Deployment context

Designed for growers, agronomists, research farms, vineyards, horticulture operations, and broadacre producers, from trial plots and ten-hectare fields to multi-field commercial estates

Role-based visibility

Authorized users can review current status, history, and operating exceptions

What’s different

Attributes fewer than 20% of comparable Agriculture listings share:

Irrigation Control4G

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