Real-time soil moisture meter
AssigneeEarthScout LLC
InventorsDipesh Karki, Troy Schmidtke, Christopher Burg, Michael Immer, Peder Lindberg, Scott Lawton
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Abstract
A meter for continuous real time monitoring of soil moisture or alternative logging data associated soil moisture. The meter includes determining a value associated with soil saturation, soil nitrogen mineralization, and growing degree units. These values are made available to the user real time.
Claims17
An apparatus for continuous real time monitoring and data logging of sensor outputs correlated with plant growth, the apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a display;
- an internal power supply;
- data input and output ports adapted for electronically coupling to sensors selected from the group consisting of soil moisture sensors, soil temp sensors, soil conductivity sensors and soil oxygen sensors;
- an internal electronic system having an interactive user interface;
- memory electronically coupled to the internal electronic system;
- accelerometers for determining acceleration forces;
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- processors included with the internal electronic system that receive inputs from the accelerometers, wherein a predetermined input from the accelerometers is required to activate and advance the interactive user interface.
An apparatus for continuous real time monitoring and data logging of sensor outputs correlated with plant growth, the apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a display;
- an internal power supply;
- data input and output ports adapted for electronically coupling to sensors selected from the group consisting of soil moisture sensors, soil temp sensors, soil conductivity sensors and soil oxygen sensors;
- an internal electronic system having an interactive user interface, wherein the interactive user interface includes a meter mode and a logger mode and further wherein the internal electronic system includes an accelerometer input amplitude detector;
- memory electronically coupled to the internal electronic system;
- and
- accelerometers, wherein a predetermined input from the accelerometers is required to activate and advance the interactive user interface.
An apparatus for continuous real time monitoring and data logging of sensor outputs correlated with plant growth, the apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a display of a liquid crystal type;
- an internal power supply;
- data input and output ports adapted for electronically coupling to sensors selected from the group consisting of soil moisture sensors, soil temp sensors, soil conductivity sensors and soil oxygen sensors;
- an internal electronic system having an interactive user interface, wherein the interactive user interface includes a meter mode and a logger mode and further wherein the internal electronic system includes an accelerometer input amplitude detector and further wherein the internal electronic system includes a remote data transmit module;
- memory electronically coupled to the internal electronic system;
- a usb-c port electrically coupled to the internal electronic system and internal power supply;
- a power switch coupled to the internal electronic system and internal power supply;
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- accelerometers, wherein a predetermined input from the accelerometers is required to activate and advance the interactive user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.