Fuente: Wipo "precision agriculture" A system to monitor soil data includes an array of sensors, each sensor positioned such that any overlap between adjacent sensors is minimized and coverage of a field is maximized, and one or more readers configured to gather data from the sensors and provide the data to a computing device. A method includes representing an agricultural field as a set of field pixels, placing an initial sensor at a random pixel location, selecting a selected pixel from the set of field pixels, determining if a sensor placed at a location of the selected pixel would overlap with any other sensor already placed in the field, placing a sensor at the location, if the sensor would not overlap any other sensors, to become part of a design, computing a score for the design, and repeating the method until the agricultural field has maximum sensor coverage with minimal overlap between sensors.