Smart Vineyard

          The Project

The Moselle valley in the district of Cochem-Zell, with its unique cultural landscape and almost 2000 years of winegrowing tradition, is characterized by cultivated steep vineyards.
In order to counteract the steady decline in vineyards in the Burg Cochem cultivation area and preserve the unique cultural landscape, the Smart Vineyard project aims to use 5G to facilitate work in the steep vineyards through future-proof digitalization and automation.
This is intended to strengthen the regional winegrowers, who have so far mainly cultivated the terraces on the Moselle by hand, and enable a more ecological, sustainable and safer cultivation of the steep vineyards overall.
Annually recurring work such as soil cultivation, defoliation and spraying are among the most time-consuming tasks in steep-slope viticulture.
The Smart Vineyard project is developing holistic web-based applications for winegrowers that (partially) automate these recurring activities with the help of robotics, AI, IoT sensors and image recognition on the one hand and support winegrowers by intelligently reusing the collected data via a central data platform on the other.