About setting up farm weather stations

Farm Weather stations will be helpful for open field plantations and is one of the best-understood data capture requirements in agriculture. The micro weather data comprises of temperature, humidity, pressure, rain, wind speed, wind direction, solar radiation, evaporation, soil moisture, and temperature etc..

Temperature and humidity are common across most of the requirements. The plants require a certain temperature and humidity range to thrive. The fungi and pathogens also thrive in certain environmental conditions. Like, mildew worms in grapes happen in certain leaf wetness, temperature and rain conditions. open field agriculture practitioners may also need evaporation and solar radiation data.

Rain and soil are also critical variables. Soil needs to be monitored at different depths. Water intensive crops need soil moisture sensors to check if the roots are getting water or not. Soil nutrients like NPK need to be monitored to check soil health. Different soil can have different pH and thus suitability for different crops.

 

Temperature and humidity can be done with help of semiconductor sensors. The way to measure rain is via gauges or tipping rain buckets. Wind speed and direction sensors are analog sensors. The rate of evaporation can be monitored using an evaporation PAN. A depth sensor can be used for automatic pan depth measurements. For disease onset and prediction, four sensors, namely, Rain, Leaf wetness, temperature, and humidity are critical. Leaf wetness sensors try to mimic the presence of water on leaves using conductivity or capacitive measurements.

The availability of the hyper local weather data is critical to scope out the farm level conditions. The data captured from satellites are at a much lower resolution and cannot help answer farm level questions. A grid of weather stations capturing micro weather data can be deployed to collect real-time data from the field that can be used to analyzed weather conditions and develop advisories.

Can build Arduino based weather stations on our own. Tutorials available online.

Or we can choose readymade farm weather station available in the markets. One such company is YuktIx technologies. You can contact them for more info.

YuktIx Technologies

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