Real-Time Detection System of Soil Moisture Based on GPRS

Abstract

Real-time monitoring of soil moisture is essential for agricultural production. In this paper, an improved system is designed based on GPRS technology for real-time detecting soil moisture, a salinity calibration model is established based on Least Squares Support Vector Machines on MatLAB (LS-SVMlab) for improving detection precision. The transmission of soil moisture information is the key technology of the system, by software and hardware design we have solved the problems of data congestion, off-line, and moving the monitoring terminal at any time, which still restrict the application of GPRS in soil moisture detection. Field tests show that the system can realize seamless connection between the collection nodes and remote host, and acquire soil moisture accurately. Simultaneously, the time of re-networking has been shortened greatly.