Patent Document ID: 10070598
Application ID: 14998260
Patent Flag: 1

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 at a first sampling interval 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; responsive to detecting at least one environmental condition outside a defined range: cause at least one self-powered output device in the localized agricultural area proximate the self-powered data collection device to transition from a first operating state to a second operating state; and collect environmental data at a second sampling interval within the localized agricultural area proximate the self-powered data collection device via the environmental sensor wherein the second sampling interval includes an interval temporally shorter in duration than the first sampling interval; and 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; and responsive to detecting the at least one environmental condition within the defined range: cause the at least one self-powered output device in the localized agricultural area proximate the self-powered data collection device to transition from the second operating state to the first operating state; and collect environmental data at the first sampling interval within the localized agricultural area proximate the self-powered data collection device via the environmental sensor.