https://altsql.com/tags/agriculture/ Recent content in Agriculture on AltSql.com Hugo en-us Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://altsql.com/agriculture-case-study-soil-sensor-runs-the-valve-itself-and-reports-in-38-bytes-a-day/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://altsql.com/agriculture-case-study-soil-sensor-runs-the-valve-itself-and-reports-in-38-bytes-a-day/ <p>A soil sensor in a field usually runs on a battery and talks over a radio that carries a few dozen bytes a day. It cannot wait for a server to tell it when to water. In the Alpha demo the sensor decides for itself when to open the irrigation valve, and it reports to the farm office in one small radio message a day. It runs the AltSql engine on 32 KB of flash with 672 bytes of engine RAM.</p>