SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monnit announced today the launch of its ALTA ® Soil Moisture Sensor. Primed to meet AgriTech market demand, the Soil Moisture Sensor alerts you on your mobile device ...

Soil-moisture solutions company Sensoterra is ramping up its LoRaWAN-based technology sales by partnering with Internet of Things (IoT) company Kerlink. By using the Kerlink reference design in its ...

Agricultural areas are traditionally always pictured as pastoral and idyllic landscapes untouched by modern life. However, farms across the world are quickly shedding this conventional image and ...

Recently, I got a Chirp! plant-watering alarm for evaluation from wemakethings. Chirp, designed to be run on a 3-V CR2032 lithium coin cell, is an electronic plant-watering alarm. You put it into the ...

Botanical sensors are turning greenery into living data networks while monitoring plant health and optimizing yields.

For a recent hackathon, a group of strangers (now friends!) created Crop Squares — a system designed to optimize crop yield by better tracking weather and soil conditions. The event was hosted in ...

Standard industrial sensors detect specific physical properties like temperature, pressure, and presence/absence. They also respond to changes in such properties. As such, one may think the only ...

Early Internet of Things (IoT) applications often have attempted to incorporate complex functionality into the sensors and devices themselves, such as refrigerators, thermostats and gateways. In the ...