= Plant Doctor: Harnessing Backscatter Radio Sensors for Agriculture =
**WINLAB Summer Internship 2024**\\
**Group Members:** Sam-Fone Cheung & Shriya Das\\
**Advisor:** Aggelos Bletsas


== Project Objective 
Backscatter radio, or reflection radio, offers a low-cost and low-power alternative to conventional radio sensor networks. This is crucial for modern agriculture which requires continual monitoring of environmental conditions such as soil moisture or temperature. Prior research has been done using capacitance sensors to measure soil moisture and ... 

== Weekly Progress
===== Week 1 =====
[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/176HsRDAxeJxmf1tP5aNRFMfCJ6p95QO6EIxRgzuDiPA/edit?usp=share_link Week 1 Presentation]\\
//Progress: //Read prior art about backscatter radio, RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, and capacitance sensors. 


===== Week 2 =====
[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bY_nNpxIUeusqLehttZEXWjmkHdcylSNkebI1xsyuZM/edit?usp=sharing Week 2 Presentation]\\
//Progress: //Used RTL-SDR's to explore software-defined radios (SDR) and tune into local FM stations. Also familiarized ourselves with [https://www.gnuradio.org GNURadio].