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The article describes a modern system of control and communication integrated in an in-situ soil sensor to make it autonomous in operation, energy and data transfer at low cost. Network of such sensors can monitor continuously soil moisture over a catchment with low maintenance. A recent industrial standard of radio communication, Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) is presented. It permits rapid deployment of a sensor in a remote observatory, and the transfer in real time of sensor data to a central web-accessed database, via a LoRaWAN receiver, or gateway, 12 km away. In this situation transmission loss can reach a rate of 30%. Good quality antenna can lower it below 5% without extensive cost. Double messaging and other transmission algorithms are a possibility, taking into account consumption. Currently, sensors measuring one point every ten minutes can last seven months with four cheap AA alkaline batteries. Further gains would increase lifetime in same conditions by 30%.

Smart networks of autonomous in-situ soil sensors