Description
In 2021, an experimental vineyard dedicated to precision agriculture was built within the campus of the Fondazione Edmund Mach at the “Molini” location, which will host innovative research and experimentation activities in the field of digital agriculture in the coming years. The vineyard 4.0 was developed to facilitate installation, powering, and data transmission by prototypes developed both by FEM and by national or international companies and research organisations. It features grid connection, low-voltage power lines, and WiFi and LoRaWAN coverage for receiving information via long-distance radio signals from soil, plant, and environmental data collection and transmission systems. Since no photovoltaic panels, batteries, or modems are required, the size and consequently the footprint of the acquisition systems are very small. This minimises their impact on the daily crop management.
What could be offered through this facility?
- Monitoring fruit and crop development
- Mapping soil characteristics
- Comparison of low-cost sensors against research-grade
- Field testing of proximal sensing technologies aboard mobile systems (i.e., UAVs, robots)
- Assessment of plant physiology traits
- Field testing of remote sensing technologies (i.e., MODIS, Sentinel data) for the assessment of plant physiology
traits (canopy temperature, vigour).
