Soil NPK sensor for precision agriculture

Soil NPK sensor for precision agriculture

Fertilizers are essential for modern agriculture and production, but also contribute to environmental pollution and climate change. NiuBoL has developed a new soil sensor that can quickly identify soil nutrients, save farmers money and help protect the environment.

Currently, the use of fertilizers on crops is based more on calculations, estimates and recommendations than on analysis of the actual needs of the soil and plants. The result is often over-fertilization, which creates a lot of waste and pollution. Farmers suffer from reduced yields and unnecessary expenditures, groundwater is polluted, surface waters are eutrophicated, greenhouse gases are emitted from soils, and limited natural fertilizer resources are gradually being depleted.

As a result, farmers need to use fertilizers more efficiently, while maintaining plant productivity while reducing negative environmental impacts, while benefiting from lower fertilizer costs. The only obstacle to rational optimization on a larger scale is the lack of fast, low-cost soil analysis.

Agricultural engineers can perform field measurements in the field, and users can do so without laboratory experience. The measured data is linked with GPS coordinates (using a mobile app) and sent via telecommunications to the cloud, where it is securely stored and accessible to the user. This information is easily converted into a machine-readable format, allowing the use of precision agricultural machinery such as fertilizer spreaders and sprayers to automate site-specific variable application rates.

Significant cost savings

This soil nutrient sensor will help farmers determine the fertilizer needs of their fields in just minutes without any special expertise. In addition, it can help them save up to 30% of applied fertilizer.