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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2021
Applicant:
Farmx Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
William Eugene Jennings, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
FarmX Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 27/02 (2006.01); G01N 33/24 (2006.01); A01G 25/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/246 (2013.01); A01G 25/167 (2013.01); G01N 27/025 (2013.01); G01N 2033/245 (2013.01);
Abstract
Soil moisture monitoring systems and methods for measuring mutual inductance of area of influence using radio frequency stimulus are disclosed herein. An example device includes a master element stacked vertically on top of one or more slave elements. The master element and slave elements can communicate through a 1-wire bus configuration. The master element can determine the presence and location of each of the one or more slave elements using an auto-discovery process. The master element can issue commands to the one or more slave elements to obtain moisture readings and/or temperature readings.