A Low Cost Power Efficient Wireless Soil Moisture Sensor Network for Forest Ecosystem Monitoring

Forest ecosystem monitoring with high spatiotemporal resolution is of paramount importance for development of accurate prediction models. Current systems are bulky, use high power, and are costly to build and maintain. In this paper a novel low cost and power efficient wireless sensor network for soil moisture monitoring is proposed. This system is power efficient and low cost to enable wide spread monitoring. The proposed system was built by undergraduate students at UMaine's WiSe-Net lab under supervision of graduate students.