Grape growing, a traditional art often passed down through the generations, is being transformed by sensors that monitor the fruit on the vine as well as the soil.
The data is uploaded to powerful computers located elsewhere – so-called cloud computing – where it is crunched into meaningful information, before being returned to the vignerons.
In many cases, the data is providing unprecedented insight into the state of crops.
The CSIRO, along with IBM, the Tasmanian government and the University of Tasmania, has been experimenting with cloud computing to enhance viticulture – the science of winemaking – and five wineries in Tasmania are involved in a pilot project that has been running for two years.
The project, Sense-T, is also being used to monitor the dairy and oyster farm industries as well as water catchments in Tasmania.
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