Turn Sensor Risk Into Controls
Use FMEA to identify sensor failure modes and define controls before data drives action.
The farm wants soil-moisture probes to trigger irrigation changes, but one wrong reading could waste water or miss crop stress. FMEA: identify failure modes, effects, severity, occurrence, detection, and controls. The common trap is trusting a sensor because it is digital and precise. A precise number from a shallow, damaged, stale, or poorly placed sensor can create a worse decision than no sensor at all. Name failure modes Examples: shallow placement, drift after cultivation, telemetry outage, wrong field assignment, or dashboard unit conversion error. Failure modes should be specific enough to prevent or detect. Name effects Shallow placement can falsely…
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