IoT multiplatform networking to monitor and control wineries and vineyards

Winemaking was born more than two thousand years ago and from that moment on a wine culture has flourished and reached almost all corners around the world. Over the years, winemaking techniques have evolved, paving the way to discover varietal characteristics unknown to the most traditional wines, and enabling the coexistence of traditional techniques and the more innovative ones. However, in recent times changes produced in climatic conditions have led to significant variations in the grape ripening process, which implies severe trouble for the wineries which are not able to properly track the evolution of the fruit. In order to give a solution to these issues, this paper provides an innovative architecture based on the concept of Internet of Things, combining wireless and distributed specific sensor devices. Integrating different wireless sensor technologies with advanced analysis, remarkable information from the environment such as soil condition, vines growth or fermentation status can be retrieved and further allowing interaction, personalization and management of different devices deployed over the scenario. This system, replicated in the real world on land, covering crops and a winery in Zamora, Spain, produces a better understanding of all operating parameters and provides a predictive system to carry out precision farming, while easing the management of the vineyard and the winery, as well as improving traceability of the entire winemaking process, complying with all relevant sustainability requirements nowadays.