The population driven need for food in the world will increase by 70% by 2050, while less land and natural resources such as water are available for farming. Therefore, increasing the efficiency of food production is incredibly important. Genetic studies suggest that the current production yield of crops has significant room to improve. State of the art technologies cannot be used to implement such a continuous monitoring of large-scale crop fields. Commercially available sensors continuously consume power to monitor the environment even when there is no relevant data to be detected which limits their lifetime and results in unsustainable costs of deployment and maintenance (i.e.