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Soil Moisture Monitoring
Know how wet the catchment is before the rain arrives. Authorised Sentek dealer.
Early read on catchment conditions
How much rain turns into runoff depends on how wet the ground already is. Soil moisture probes installed at flood warning stations give council an early read on catchment conditions, from the surface down to 1.2 m. As an authorised Sentek dealer, we supply, install and support Sentek probes directly.
A flood warning station already has power, a logger and telemetry, so adding soil moisture costs far less than a stand-alone site. Readings sit next to the station’s rainfall and river level, which makes it easy to see how the catchment is responding. Sealed probes can’t be repaired, so we check every channel at each service and plan replacements before a wet season.
What we deliver
- Site selection clear of trees, drainage lines and disturbed ground
- Sentek Drill & Drop™ probes supplied and installed as an authorised Sentek dealer
- Cable in conduit to the station, wired to the logger via SDI-12
- Live power and telemetry with the flood warning station
- Moisture, EC/salinity and temperature channels configured
- Live dashboards and data exports for your team
- Health checks during the station’s scheduled service
Full soil profile
Moisture, salinity and temperature
Authorised supply, install and support
Watching the catchment wet up
Real data from a station probe, summer 2020: the surface wets and dries with each storm, while deeper soil only fills after sustained rain.
Project snapshot
Probe replacement at a creek-side flood station, South East Queensland (2023)
During a water quality network assessment we found this station’s soil moisture probe had failed: no communication, and as a sealed unit it couldn’t be repaired. We installed a new 1.2 m drill & drop probe in fresh ground beside the station, ran the cable in conduit to the pit and wired it into the new logger. It now reports moisture, salinity and temperature at 10 cm intervals, alongside the station’s river level and rainfall.
Sentek and Drill & Drop are trademarks of Sentek Pty Ltd.
| Probe | Sentek Drill & Drop™, 1.2 m |
| Measures | Soil moisture, EC/salinity, temperature |
| Resolution | 12 sensors at 10 cm intervals |
| Logger | Campbell Scientific CR300 with 4G, SDI-12 |
| Power | Live with the flood station |
| Data | eagle.io dashboard alongside rain and level |
| Outcome | Soil moisture record restored |
How we work
Assess
Soil, site and station
Install
Drill & drop probe
Integrate
Logger, power, telemetry
Configure
Channels and dashboards
Maintain
Checks every service
Talk to us about your network
Queensland councils can engage us directly through Local Buy – we’re a pre-qualified supplier under LB312. Call us on 0408 255 779 or send through the details of your site or network.