An important variable to be monitored and controlled in your garden is the soil moisture level. I decided to use the Octopus Soil Moisture Sensor Brick, that can be found at http://www.elecfreaks.com/ for about U$ 5,00.
| Octopus Soil Moisture Sensor Brick - Image Source www.elecfreaks.com |
I have a very strict control over soil moisture in the environment of the test, and after 36 hours of usage, the data acquired was not reflecting reality, as shown at the graphic below:
Only five days after installed the data dropped to 0, and the sensor was completly wasted:
The problem was related to the sensor waste:
I do not recomend the usage of this sensor in continuous mode. A very good article (in Portuguese), that show how you can build your own soil moisture sensor, can be found at https://ncaio.wordpress.com/








