Embodied Intelligence for Soil Health toward Sustainable Smart Agriculture: Sensing the Soil with Flexible Geotextiles Sensors
Ayse Feyza Yilmaz, Meltem Tekcin, Burak Kilic, Erdem Bahadir, Fatima Iqbal, Ahad Khabbaz Bavil, Batuhan Atasoy, Senem Kursun · 2026
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Yilmaz and co-authors review a new direction for farm sensing in this 2026 Global Challenges article. Smart farming already uses buried probes to track soil moisture, temperature, acidity, and nutrients, but rigid probes cover little ground and can be fragile. The authors ask whether geotextiles, the fabric sheets already spread over fields, could carry flexible sensors across whole plots.
The review compares soil sensors by materials, fabrication, testing, power supply, and wireless links, then merges the lessons into one design framework. Their conclusion is that fabric-based, large-area sensing is plausible and could adapt as conditions change. Such platforms, they argue, would give precision agriculture denser, cheaper soil data for healthier soil management.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ayse Feyza Yilmaz, Meltem Tekcin, Burak Kilic, Erdem Bahadir, Fatima Iqbal, Ahad Khabbaz Bavil, Batuhan Atasoy, Senem Kursun |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 110 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |