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Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2020
Applicant:

Farmx Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Robin Lucien Woodby, Berkeley, CA (US);

Kentaro Fitzgerald Kuwata, Redwood City, CA (US);

William Eugene Jennings, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

FarmX Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 25/16 (2006.01); G01N 33/24 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); G01W 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 25/167 (2013.01); G01N 33/246 (2013.01); G01W 1/02 (2013.01); G05B 19/042 (2013.01); G01N 2033/245 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2625 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for providing irrigation water to a soil depth of a crop rootzone in a plurality of crop fields using a sensor network and soil moisture modeling are provided. In various embodiments methods include receiving data from a sensor network in a first crop field and determining a soil moisture model using data from the sensor network in the first field. Various embodiments further include determining a first field irrigation time using the soil moisture model, the first field irrigation time providing irrigation water to a soil depth of the crop rootzone above a Wilting Point (WP) and below a Field Capacity (FC) of soil in the first field, and applying the soil moisture model to a second field.


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