Sustainable viticulture

VineSense IoT is a solution already adopted by over 1,000 of the most prestigious Italian winemakers. The system’s flexibility means it can be used by estates with tens or hundreds of hectares of vineyards, and by wineries, consortia and producers’ associations. A central station, equipped with the main weather and climate sensors (rain, wind, solar radiation, atmospheric pressure) is surrounded by a number of wireless IoT units with microclimate sensors (air temperature and humidity, leaf wetness, soil humidity etc); the wireless IoT units are installed in the rows at a rangeup 8 km from the central hub; they work without solar panels or electricity, making installation very simple.
This considerably reduces purchase and running costs, which are up to 70% lower than a traditional weather monitoring station.

As well as having all the main weather information at hand (accumulated rainfall, hours of wetness, minimum and maximum temperatures etc), the Netsens LiveData cloud service and its powerful smartphone app contains an advanced decision support system (DSS) which gives a 7-day forecast for each unit on the ground of the development of the primary threats (powdery mildew, botrytis, lobesiabotrana), and checks the coverage of products, taking into account for any wash-out caused by rain.