Managing salinity and chloride levels in soil is essential for healthy plant growth, soil structure stability, and long-term farm productivity. By using real-time sensor data, growers can monitor and control salt accumulation, ensuring optimal growing conditions.
Preventing Soil Salinization
Continuous monitoring of electrical conductivity and salinity profiles allows early detection of rising salt concentrations, helping prevent soil degradation and crop stress.
Ensuring Optimal Soil Moisture Balance
Soil moisture sensors support proper irrigation scheduling to prevent overwatering or salt build-up due to inefficient drainage, which can harm sensitive crops.
Monitoring Temperature Impact on Salt Dynamics
Soil temperature sensors help assess how heat influences salt mobility and chloride distribution, allowing growers to adjust management practices accordingly for each season.
Detecting Pressure-Related Salt Movement
Pressure sensors track water movement and infiltration patterns, offering valuable insights into how salts travel through soil layers, especially after irrigation or rainfall events.
Maintaining Soil Health and Crop Yield
Salinity and chloride data, combined with moisture and temperature insights, enable precise soil management to avoid nutrient lockout, root damage, and reduced crop performance.
Supporting Irrigation Water Quality Decisions
Sensor data helps evaluate whether irrigation practices or water sources contribute to excessive soil salinity, allowing for timely adjustments in water sourcing or treatment.
Improving Fertilizer Efficiency
Monitoring salinity alongside soil moisture ensures that fertilizers are absorbed effectively without increasing salt stress, supporting healthy root development and balanced nutrient uptake.
Pressure sensor Piezoresistive transducer Range: From 0 to 1 bar, relative (other ranges on request) Linearity / precision: max. ±0.02% of full scale T otal error band: max. ±0.1% of full scale Temperature Range: From -40 to +125 °C Accuracy: max. ±0.1 °C Length cable: 10m LoRaWAN® class A 2 C alkaline batteries
Pressure Piezoresistive transducer Range: From 0 to bar, relative (other ranges on request) Linearity / precision: max. ±0.02% of full scale Total error band: max. ±0.1% of full scale Temperature Range: From -40 ro +125 °C Accuracy: max. ±0.1 °C Electrical Conductivity Range: From 0 to 20 mS/cm (other ranges on request) Accuracy: max. ±2.5% of full-scale Length Cable: 10m LoRaWAN® class A 2 C alkaline batteries
Soil Moisture Range: From 0 to 100 % volumetric water content (VWC) Resolution: 0.01 % Accuracy: ±0.03 % Soil Temperature Range: From -20 to 60 °C Accuracy: ±2.0 °C at 25 °C Resolution: ±0.01°C *Inaccuracy can be higher under moderate-to-high solar radiation. Salinity Range: From 0 to 8000 volumetric ion content (VIC) Accuracy: Not specified *600 mm probe length, 6 soil moisture, temperature and salinity sensors. Other lengths, number of sensors: contact us
Level / Pressure sensor Range: From 0 to 0 mH₂O / 0 to 1 bar, relative Resolution: 2mm Accuracy: ±0.5% of full scale @ 20 °C Temperature Range: From -11 to +49 °C, ( do not expose to freezing temp. if sensor is in water) Resolution: 0.1 °C Accuracy: max. ±1 °C Electrical Conductivity Range: From 0 to 20 dS/m Resolution: 0.001 dS/m Accuracy: ±0.01 dS/m or ±10% (whichever is greater) " Length cable: 10m LoRaWAN® class A 2 C alkaline batteries
Prevention of Salt-Related Crop Stress
Continuous salinity and electrical conductivity monitoring allows early detection of salt build-up, reducing the risk of osmotic stress, poor germination, and stunted plant growth.
Improved Irrigation Practices
Real-time moisture, salinity, and pressure data help optimize irrigation cycles to flush excess salts effectively, maintain balanced soil moisture, and reduce water waste.
Increased Fertilizer Efficiency
Understanding salt levels in the soil helps prevent nutrient lockout and ensures fertilizers are absorbed properly, improving crop growth and reducing input costs.
Enhanced Soil Health and Longevity
Salinity and chloride monitoring protects soil structure by preventing salt accumulation, preserving long-term soil fertility and reducing the need for costly soil remediation.
Better Adaptation to Environmental Conditions
Combining salinity data with soil temperature insights helps farmers predict salt movement under varying weather conditions, allowing proactive adjustments to irrigation and fertilization strategies.
Reduced Yield Losses from Salinity Damage
Monitoring allows early intervention before salt stress visibly impacts plants, helping to secure stable yields and avoid quality losses caused by salinity-affected crops.
Sustainable Water Use and Resource Management
Sensors help identify whether irrigation water contributes to soil salinity problems, allowing growers to select better water sources, apply treatment, or adjust irrigation methods for long-term sustainability.
Accurate monitoring of salinity and chloride levels is essential for maintaining soil health, protecting crop productivity, and ensuring long-term sustainable farming. By combining advanced sensor data, growers can make smarter, data-driven decisions that prevent damage and boost yields.
