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The Oenotrace project, funded by ERA-NET ICT-AGRI-FOOD, aims to develop a holistic digital approach to trace sustainable practices in viticulture in order to promote their widespread implementation.

European winegrowers are experiencing increasing competitive pressure and challenges due to climate change. At the same time, wine consumers and winemakers are increasingly seeking more transparency and more sustainable winegrowing practices. So far, ICT-based traceability solutions for the wine value chain have paid little attention to relevant processes in the vineyard, like the management of water, energy and chemicals as well as greenhouse gas fluxes. 

The Project focuses on achieving such key objectives:

🍇 Employment of growth models and sensors to monitor environmentally relevant processes at the vineyard

 🍇 Use of advanced digital farming technology to implement precision farming practices and utilise machine data 

 🍇 Development of a data platform to aggregate data from an IoT network, incorporate relevant models and algorithms, and provide interfaces for information exchange between different stakeholders. 

Conceptual structure and information flow for the project.

Work plan activities

The requirements and system definition, including the draft for a digital product passport will be completed in workshops and expert discussions (WP1). 

The IoT sensors defined in WP2 will be installed in a German use case networked with the data platform under consideration of interoperability mechanisms. 

Different sensor technology will be used to conduct data collection campaigns on experimental plots in Germany and Italy during WP3, where also machine data will be recorded. 

WP4 will employ these data to provide the necessary input for e.g. site-specific spraying, as well as information on relevant fluxes in the vineyard. 

System integration, validation and evaluation will be done with the help of technical tests and agronomic trials (WP5). 

WP6 will boost the technology take-off by using various dissemination channels.

In the future, the team anticipated such results and potential impacts by providing:

🍇 a new ICT-enabled means for wine producers to improve their operational and environmental performance

🍇 while satisfying consumer demand for greater insight into production, and

🍇 potentially generating higher revenues for producers.