Catalogue of Infrastructures and Facilities

Apple Orchards in Tres

Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

Country

Italy

For this purpose, LoRaWAN tensiometers are devices for measuring the soil moisture. A tensiometer consists of a vacuum gauge connected by a tube to a porous ceramic tip. The tube is filled with water. The ceramic tip is permeable, and the water in the tube saturates it. The tip is placed in contact with the soil in the root zone. Because the soil is normally not saturated, water is drawn from the tip into the soil. As water moves from the tube into the soil, a partial vacuum is created and measured by the gauge. This measurement is not a direct measurement of soil water content. Rather, it is a measurement of soil water tension (also called soil moisture tension). The level of pressure (tension) in the vacuum is an indication of the amount of energy needed by a plant to counter the strength with which the soil holds moisture and extract water from the soil. We installed in different fields for every measure point two tensiometers with different depths (30 cm and 60 cm). In this way we are able to measure the effect of water/soil moisture at different depths in the soil. Through the LoRa network we receive the soil moisture data from the sensors distributed in the field. Moreover, with the LoRAWAN valve, we are able to control water irrigation based on soil moisture data from tensiometers processed by AI algorithms. With this data and their elaboration, we are able to save water and make the irrigation process more efficient.

Vineyard in Rovere della Luna

Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

Country

Italy

For this purpose, tensiometer LoRaWAN are devices to measure the soil moisture. A tensiometer consists of a vacuum gauge connected by a tube to a porous ceramic tip. The tube is filled with water. The ceramic tip is permeable, and the water in the tube saturates it. The tip is placed in contact with the soil in the root zone. Because the soil is normally not saturated, water is drawn from the tip into the soil. As water moves from the tube into the soil, a partial vacuum is created and measured by the gauge. This measurement is not a direct measurement of soil water content. Rather, it is a measurement of soil water tension (also called soil moisture tension). The level of pressure (tension) in the vacuum is an indication of the amount of energy needed by a plant to counter the strength with which the soil holds moisture and extract water from the soil. We installed in different fields for every measure point one tensiometer with 30 cm depth (root depth). Through the LoRa network we receive the soil moisture data from the sensors distributed in the field. With this data and their elaboration, we are able to save water and make the irrigation process more efficient.

Vinimag©

Institut Francais de la Vigne et du Vin (IFV)

Country

France

These fermenters are individually thermoregulated, and the temperature is measured at three heights by IR sensors. A collaborative arm transfers the fermenters to a weight and colour measuring station and to an input addition station. Weight monitoring provides access to fermentation kinetics. This measurement is carried out every hour, as well as the measurement of the colour, which follows the extraction of the film from the juice during fermentation. The second station allows the liquid addition of inputs in an automated manner.

This robot is the central experimental device of the new UMT Actia Oenotyping, which brings together the scientific and technical skills of the IFV, the Institut Agro Montpellier, the UMR SPO and the UEPR of INRAE. Unique in the world for red wines, it aims to allow "high-throughput oenotyping". Indeed, thanks to this system, researchers will study and integrate oenological criteria upstream of the creation and varietal selection, which aims to adapt plant material to climate change (adaptation to high temperatures, resistance to diseases). 

The effect of drought on the wine will also be studied, as well as new winemaking routes with little or no inputs. Vinimag© is the central tool of the Minicave project, which is the result of 5 years of development by the IFV, INRAE and the Institut Agro to respect the main principles of red winemaking on a kilo scale. 

A Grape Bank allows the 1 kg batches to be kept frozen and fermentation to be postponed throughout the year, thus freeing itself from the seasonality of the harvest. The robot ensures the fermentation and pressing carried out by a 9-station plant, called Nano'press.

Pech rouge experimental vineyard

Institut Francais de la Vigne et du Vin (IFV)

Country

France

The Pech Rouge wine estate (INRAE) is located in the commune of Gruissan, near Narbonne (11). It covers 163 hectares, between the Clape massif and the Mediterranean coast. It consists of a vineyard of about thirty hectares, winemaking platforms and an analysis laboratory. It is particularly suitable for the study of water stress management in the Mediterranean region.