Hold the smartphone, Oregon blueberries have gone wireless.
Oregon Berry Packing, a family-owned business based in Hillsboro, is one of many growers using new wireless sensor technology to monitor crop conditions in real time.
Technological advances in crop management from companies like Onset Computer Corporation have given rise to the use of wireless sensors, or data loggers, which can provide valuable feedback to the grower, like temperature and soil conditions.
The grower could modify their irrigation based on the data or alerted to extreme conditions of nature like frost.