Vinesense

VITICULTURE
SMART AND
SUSTAINABLE

Thanks to Vinesense, it is now possible to manage vineyard treatments intelligently and sustainably, with clear economic and environmental benefits.

Vinesense is the solution already adopted by over 1,000 of the most prestigious and renowned Italian wineries. Its flexibility allows it to be used by companies with dozens or hundreds of hectares of vineyards, as well as by wineries, consortia, grower groups, or small producers.

Crop
protection
Water
saving
Remote
monitoring
Weather
forecast
Frost
alerts

Discover Vinesense

Around the main station, equipped with the main weather-climate sensors, several wireless IoT units with micro-climatic sensors are positioned. The wireless IoT units, installed within the vineyard rows, up to 8 km away from each station, operate without solar panels or power grid, thus improving ease of installation.

Pest Management

  • Main unit
  • Photovoltaic kit
  • 2 wireless IoT units
  • 2 air humidity and temperature sensors
  • 2 leaf wetness sensors
  • Installation accessories
  • Predictive agronomic models for crop protection
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Pest Management & Meteo

  • Main unit
  • Photovoltaic kit
  • 2 wireless IoT units
  • 2 soil moisture and temperature sensors
  • 2 leaf wetness sensors
  • Installation accessories
  • Forecast agronomic models for crop protection
  • Weather kit (anemometer, rain gauge, thermo-hygrometer, barometer)

Netsens LiveData, a cloud-based service with a dedicated mobile app, keeps all key weather information at your fingertips, including rainfall totals, leaf-wetness hours, and minimum and maximum temperatures. It also integrates an advanced DSS system that, for each in-field monitoring point, forecasts up to 7 days ahead the development of the main threats (downy mildew, powdery mildew, botrytis, grapevine moth) and checks spray coverage, taking into account any wash-off caused by rainfall.

VineSense IoT extends vineyard decision support with clear, timely insights for additional functions such as crop water requirements, frost alerts, and climate indices, while providing a complete historical record of all collected data. With the new Field Logbook, users can also assess weather trends in relation to phenological stages, helping anticipate seasonal development. Finally, VineSense IoT can be integrated with our WiSense irrigation control units to deliver a fully integrated system for irrigation management and automation, an increasingly strategic capability in vineyards as climate variability intensifies.

Wireless IoT components

MODULO-WIFI

Around a main station equipped with the key weather and climate sensors, multiple wireless IoT units with micro-climatic sensors are positioned—up to 8 km away.

These serve as the data acquisition and communication units between the field sensors and the Livedata cloud platform, and are therefore included in both Meteosense stations and the Agrisense and Vinesense IoT systems.

A robust and reliable product, suitable for any professional application.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF IOT UNITS

  • Communication interface: LoRa® 868 MHz (also available in other versions for installations outside Europe)
  • Power supply: lithium battery, 1-3 year life
  • Local configuration interface: USB
  • Display: 3-character LCD

Main compatible micro-climatic sensors:

  • Rain collector (rain intensity and accumulation)
  • Air temperature and relative humidity, dew point, frost risk
  • Leaf wetness (wetness intensity on upper and lower leaves)
  • Soil moisture, temperature and conductivity (up to 4 probes)
  • Diametric growth
  • Solar radiation
  • Leaf temperature