Sencrop offer a range of weather monitoring sensors: rain, wind, temperature, radiation, leaf wetness, and soil temperature and moisture. The soil probe has sensors at 10, 20, 40 and 60 cm, with soil moisture measured using capacitance sensors.

Both the soil moisture probe and the radiation sensor can be used in irrigation management. The Sencrop “irrigation module” displays an average soil water moisture graph from the data from the probe. This can be calibrated after soil type. The data from the radiation sensor coupled with the rainfall data gives a calculated water balance from the Penman-Monteith formula, again calibrated after soil type. This calculated soil moisture seems to also use a simple growth model – you need to enter sowing date into the module. Profi magazine quotes the price of the soil probe as €1140 and the radiation sensor with irrigation licence as €300 per year for five fields.

Connectivity is via 4G with hourly transmission. Sencorp offers connectivity via LoRa and Sigfox networks, but it seems that the soil probe cannot be connected via these.

Product website: Sencrop

Availability in Sweden: Maybe (Sencrop have been contacted)

Original source to this knowledge base: Profi June 2025, p63

Note to future self: Cordulus (who offer a similar local weather station system) does not have a soil moisture probe.