Fede’s technologies have been selected in the Grape-growing category for responding to the demanding challenges faced by wine producers.
Fede has been awarded in the innovation contest “The wine industry of tomorrow”, organized by the Wine Innovation Cluster Alliance (WICA). This cluster, promoted by the European Partnership for Auxiliary Wine industry Innovation, is made up of Inno’vin and the AgriFood & Bioeconomy agency, which represent most of the wine ecosystems in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
The Tecnovid Qi H3O equipment and the Fede SCG device have been awarded in the Grape-growing category as technological solutions that solve the real problems faced by wine producers: treatment effectiveness, use of pesticides reduction while ensuring the quality of the harvest, use of ecological phytosanitary products, decrease of production costs and reduction of the environmental impact of work on the fields. Due to its features, both solutions contribute to the digital transformation of the vineyards in a sustainable and profitable way.
This recognition highlights the functionalities of the Tecnovid Qi H3O, which applies precision treatments with both conventional and organic plant protection products, adapting the application to the phenological state of the vineyard and the level of pest or disease infestation. The adjustment of the volume of application and air flow reduces the drift up to 50% and achieves savings of up to 25% in phytosanitary products and water. Likewise, the Tecnovid Qi H3O equipment facilitates setting up a variable dosage application according to a prescription map, which potentially entails a higher reduction rate. In addition, the efficiency of the Tecnovid H3O allows to save up to 4l/h of fuel and a reduction up to 49% of the emission of greenhouse gases approximately.
This intelligent equipment is connected to the Specialty Crops Platform (SCP), a digital agronomic management tool from which work orders are sent to the operator for the equipment to be adjusted automatically. The operator has a tactile interface in which the work being carried out can be visualized in real time. This proactive system issues warnings in case of error so it is possible to correct the wrong parameter right away. Once the treatment is finished, all the spraying data is recorded in the SCP for its verification and analysis, thus it provides real traceability and generates the digital field notebook automatically.
As for the SCG, it is a 4.0 integration device for specialty crops which digitalizes all field tasks carried out with a tractor (ploughing, pruning, harvesting…). This technology monitors the work in progress, as well as the geolocation of the operators, it issues alerts in real time and precisely records all work data. This system helps to optimize tasks, minimizing the passes of the tractor in the field to those that are essential, thereby contributing significantly to reducing the effect of soil compaction. Likewise, the SCG offers detailed control of costs, operators, fleet of tractors and maintenance of agricultural implements.
WICA has highlighted the Tecnovid Qi H3O equipment and the SCG device as innovations that allow making agronomic and business decisions based on data, control pests and diseases and manage field tasks with precision to obtain a quality profitable harvest, reducing the environmental impact of agriculture and increasing society’s food safety standards.
With the contribution of the European Union’s LIFE Programme, the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action, under grant agreement LIFE18 ENV/ES/000349.