CrossVit: Enhancing Canopy Monitoring Management Practices in Viticulture

Abstract

A new wireless sensor network (WSN), called CrossVit, and based on MEMSIC products, has been tested for two growing seasons in two vineyards in Italy. The aims are to evaluate the monitoring performances of the new WSN directly in the vineyard and collect air temperature, air humidity and solar radiation data to support vineyard management practices. The WSN consists of various levels: the Master/Gateway level coordinates the WSN and performs data aggregation; the Farm/Server level takes care of storing data on a server, data processing and graphic rendering; Nodes level is based on a network of peripheral nodes consisting of a MDA300 sensor board and Iris module and equipped with thermistors for air temperature, photodiodes for global and diffuse solar radiation, and an HTM2500LF sensor for relative humidity. The communication levels are: WSN links between gateways and sensor nodes by ZigBee, and long-range GSM/GPRS links between gateways and the server farm level. The system was able to monitor the agrometeorological parameters in the vineyard: solar radiation, air temperature and air humidity, detecting the differences between the canopy treatments applied. The performance of CrossVit, in terms of monitoring and reliability of the system, have been evaluated considering: its handiness, cost-effective, non-invasive dimensions and low power consumption.

Towards Long-Term Multi-Hop WSN Deployments for Environmental Monitoring: An Experimental Network Evaluation

“…Single-hop WSN deployments have been reported, such as Life Under Your Feet (LUYF) [28], CrossVit [29] and others [30,31]; however, they do not have any routing considerations in their analysis.…”

Air Temperature Error Correction Based on Solar Radiation in an Economical Meteorological Wireless Sensor Network

“…In order to reduce the cost and to advance the flexibility of AT observation, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ] have been take into consideration. During the last decade, WSNs have been broadly utilized in various fields, including air temperature observation [ 8 ], water monitoring [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ], forest monitoring [ 18 , 19 ], industrial monitoring [ 20 , 21 ], agriculture monitoring [ 22 , 23 ], battlefield surveillance [ 24 , 25 ], intelligent transportation [ 26 , 27 ], smart homes [ 28 ], animal behavior monitoring [ 29 , 30 ] and disaster prevention [ 31 , 32 ].…”

An Open-Source and Low-Cost Monitoring System for Precision Enology

“…In the last years, WSNs have been widely used for different monitoring solutions both in the vineyard [12][13][14][15] and cellar [1][2][3][4][5]16]. As reported by Jones and Davis [17], temperature is a critical factor to control during alcoholic fermentation, but different stages of the winemaking process require the monitoring of many other parameters.…”