Design and evaluation of a capacitive sensor for real time monitoring of gravimetric moisture content in soil
| dc.contributor.author | Pieris, TPD | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chathuranga, KVDS | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Karunananda, AS | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Talagala, PD | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-16T04:27:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-16T04:27:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Soil moisture content measurements are required widely in the fields of lawn maintenance, irrigation systems of farming, soil processing in civil engineering etc. The paper presents a novel two terminal sensor for real-time volumetric soil moisture content measurement. The sensor was designed and tested with two terminals and an epoxy layer. This sensor was designed such that the range of the sensor in the range of the moisture measurement. An a-stable multi vibrator-based circuit was used to measure the capacitance across the two terminals when inserted into soil. A microcontroller-based system was used to measure, calculate the volumetric soil moisture content and save to a SD card. The results validate the effective applicability of the developed sensor in volumetric soil moisture content measurement. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | T. P. D. Pieris and K. V. D. S. Chathuranga, "Design and Evaluation of a Capacitive Sensor for Real Time Monitoring of Gravimetric Moisture Content in Soil," 2020 5th International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR), 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICITR51448.2020.9310793. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.conference | 5th International Conference in Information Technology Research 2020 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.department | Information Technology Research Unit, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | doi: 10.1109/ICITR51448.2020.9310793 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.faculty | IT | en_US |
| dc.identifier.place | Moratuwa, Sri Lanka | en_US |
| dc.identifier.proceeding | Proceedings of the 5th International Conference in Information Technology Research 2020 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/19519 | |
| dc.identifier.year | 2020 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa. | en_US |
| dc.relation.uri | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9310793 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Capacitive moisture sensor | en_US |
| dc.subject | soil moisture | en_US |
| dc.title | Design and evaluation of a capacitive sensor for real time monitoring of gravimetric moisture content in soil | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference-Full-text | en_US |