Patent Document ID: 20170181389
Application ID: 14998260
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. An agricultural resource management system, comprising: a plurality of self-powered data collection devices disposed across at least a portion of an agricultural area, each of the self-powered data collection devices including: an energy collector; an environmental sensor; a communication interface; a control circuit communicably coupled to the environmental sensor; a storage device communicably coupled to the control circuit, the storage device including machine-readable instructions, that when executed by the control circuit, cause the control circuit to: collect environmental data within a localized agricultural area proximate the self-powered data collection device via the environmental sensor; exchange at least a portion of the collected environmental data with at least some of the remaining plurality of self-powered data collection devices; cooperatively monitor and control distribution of an agricultural resource across at least a portion of the agricultural area that includes the respective localized agricultural area proximate the respective self-powered data collection device.