Development of a rugged continuous electronic monitoring device to detect soil fertility in farm fields could be a boon to agriculture in the United States and the United Kingdom (UK).
The ever-increasing price of fertilizers and environmental concerns about nutrient runoff make an inexpensive continuous real-time monitor cost-effective for farmers who desire to apply just what is needed to soils.
Dr. Biswajit Ray, an assistant professor of electrical and computer science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is a project co-principal investigator and is developing the system’s impedance analyzer board and its wireless platform.
His collaborators include principal investigator Dr. Suprem Das, an assistant professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Kansas State University and Dr. Saugata Datta, a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at The University of Texas in San Antonio.
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