Solid-State Plant & Soil Sensors

Low-power semiconductor sensing for moisture, conductivity, temperature, chemistry and plant-adjacent measurements.

Maturity Commercial sensors / active research for select chemistries

Architecture role

A dense farm-wide laboratory is impractical, but inexpensive solid-state sensors can provide frequent local measurements that guide where higher-value inspection or treatment should occur.

Core capabilities

• Capacitive or dielectric soil-moisture sensing.
• Temperature, humidity and conductivity measurements near roots and canopy.
• Ion-selective or chemical sensing where calibration, fouling and lifetime are acceptable.
• Leaf- or stem-adjacent sensors for selected physiological measurements.
• On-node calibration checks and drift detection before data is trusted for dosing.

Aurora design direction

Aurora should combine permanent low-cost nodes with mobile reference measurements. That allows AgroCore to identify bad sensors and avoids acting on one drifting probe as if it were ground truth.