VINBOT: AUTONOMOUS CLOUD-COMPUTING VINEYARD ROBOT TO OPTIMISE YIELD MANAGEMENT AND WINE QUALITY
VINBOT is an all-terrain autonomous mobile robot with a set of sensors capable of Capturing and analysing vineyard images and 3D data by means of cloud computing applications, to determine the yield of vineyards and to share information with the winegrowers. VINBOT uses NDVI sensors together with colour cameras, 3D range finders and GPS to assess the canopies in the vineyards. Data-intensive computer vision algorithms are offloaded to external internet servers (the cloud). Wineries and wine growers will be able to make accurate yield predictions to organise the production and marketing their wines, coordinating the mixing of grapes of homogeneous quality to efficiently market a range of wines by quality and price. Using the VinBot, the consortium wine producer associations will be able to coordinate and optimise yield management strategies throughout their thousands of members vineyards, based on their collective expertise and commercial objectives. They expect to sell their wine for 8%-20% more over a five year period by employing the VinBot system to accurately estimate yield.
See also: https://smart-akis.com/SFCPPortal/#/app-h/technologies?techid=151
Smart-AKIS: European Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) towards innovation-driven research
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Ongoing | 2016-2018
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- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Greece