Understanding plant physiology is essential for optimizing growth, maximizing water efficiency, and improving crop resilience. Sap flow sensors, combined with temperature monitoring, offer precise insights into a plant's internal water transport and how it responds to environmental conditions.
Monitoring Water Uptake and Transport
Sap flow sensors track the real-time movement of water through the plant's vascular system, providing direct insights into water usage and stress response.
Assessing Plant Health and Vitality
Sap flow and temperature data reveal how effectively a plant regulates transpiration under varying conditions, offering early warnings of stress or water deficit before visible symptoms occur.
Optimizing Irrigation Strategies
By monitoring how much water the plant is actually using — rather than relying only on soil moisture — growers can fine-tune irrigation schedules to match the plant's physiological needs and growth stages.
Improving Drought and Heat Resilience
Temperature and sap flow data together help identify how plants respond to extreme heat or water scarcity, enabling proactive measures to protect plant health during stress periods.
Enhancing Yield and Growth Efficiency
Understanding how water use fluctuates with temperature and environmental changes allows growers to create optimal growing conditions, improving plant development and potential yields.
Supporting Precision Agriculture and Research
Sap flow and temperature monitoring generate detailed, crop-specific physiological data, supporting advanced farming strategies, variety selection, and scientific research for long-term improvement.
Temperature Measurement Range: -200 to >+1000 cm/hr (heat velocity) Temperature Range: -30 ... +70 °C Resolution: 0.01°C Accuracy: ±0.1 °C Cable length: 5 meter LoRaWAN® class A External power supply: 12.0 VDC regulated, 0.3 A max.
Precise Water Usage Insight
Sap flow sensors measure the actual water transport within the plant, allowing growers to understand real-time water demand — leading to smarter, more efficient irrigation decisions.
Improved Stress Detection
By monitoring plant water use and surrounding temperature, early signs of water stress, heat stress, or physiological imbalance can be identified before visible damage appears, allowing fast corrective action.
Higher Water-Use Efficiency
Data-driven irrigation based on sap flow and temperature helps minimize water waste, ensuring plants receive just the right amount of water — promoting sustainability and reducing costs.
Stronger Yield Potential and Crop Quality
Healthy water flow through the plant supports steady growth, nutrient transport, and stress resilience — all of which directly contribute to improved yields and consistent crop quality.
Better Adaptation to Weather Variability
Understanding how plants respond to temperature shifts and environmental stress enables farmers to anticipate and manage risks linked to drought, heatwaves, and changing weather patterns.
Support for Scientific Research and Precision Agriculture
Sap flow and temperature monitoring deliver reliable physiological data, supporting research, variety selection, and high-precision farming practices aimed at maximizing long-term productivity and sustainability.
Combining sap flow and temperature monitoring gives growers direct insights into how plants manage water and energy under real-world conditions. This advanced approach helps optimize plant health, resource efficiency, and crop resilience.
