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New Technologies for winemaking & viticulture

on the horizon

Gartner - “Technology innovation is the key to competitive differentiation and is transforming many industries.”

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4IR Agri/wine

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5The Future of the Western Cape Agricultural Sector in the Context of 4IR

Upcoming technologies in the 4IR?

3D and 4D printing Conservation technology Transport technology

Smart materials Food design Aquaculture

Robotics Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) Sensor technology

ICT Connective infrastructure Bioinformatics

Biorefinery and biofuels Genetics Synthetic biology

Smart farming Renewable energy Protein transition

Vertical agriculture Weather modification

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Agri Innovation Hub(Grapes & Wine)

A collaboration between/ecosystem for:

Faculty of AgriSciences, Innovus, LaunchLab, Agri Industry Associations and Representative Bodies,

Stellenbosch Network, Agri Startups, Agri Corporations, Funders/Capital Markets, …

Final pitching event: 2 Nov 18

Winetech/Stellenbosch University Ideas Challenge 2018

For more info see www.launchlab.co.za/winetech2018

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Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN’s) for bio-control

• NemaBio (Nemlab) will be the only company in South Africa selling indigenous species of EPNs

• Will produce EPNs on a large scale at our own facility using the in vitro nematode production process which has been streamlined for commercialization

• Sold in two different formulations (nematode carriers) as a biopesticide

• EPNs can be used in the deciduous fruit and citrus industry, as well as the vegetable and flower market

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Forbes.com

Grape production innovations

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Geospatial AI for Agriculture (GAIA)

• The organization feeds the data it collects to its deep neural network to monitor crop conditions, fruit quality, classify vineyards and more.

• i.e. disease management

• About 40 AUS$ per ha per year

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Grape production

• AI and sensors role in climate monitoring/analysis/prediction

• Suitability (and future suitability) analysis

• I.e. future of CapeFarmmapper and Teraclim tool?

• Multicriteria Decision Models (Cultivar/site/goal)

• Evolution of satellite imaging. . .

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0.8 m (now 0.6 m for 2019/20 season

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01 Solution

Harvester – GPS scanner Crates – RFID

tag

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02 Outcomes for farmersLive & Interactive

Dashboards

02 Outcomes for farmers

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Harvest Yield in Tons

The most accurate grape yield

map

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Autonomous vehicles (or tractors)

• Drinking and driving is OK –no. . . really

• And it will also impact wine sales. . .

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Tech for Sustainability

• Environmental solutions / energy / biofuel etc.

• Waste management (water, eco-friendly packaging, nutrient recycling etc)

• Consumer asks for traceability (i.e. blockchain tech, RFID, even virtual reality)

• Glyphosate/copper battle (Europe)

© 2019 Vitirover. All rights reserved.

1. Solar panel and Liion battery- 100% autonomy

2. GNSS Receiver- works in the GNSS limits of the plot GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS, SBAS, BEIDU

3. Intelligent circulation in the plot (IoT ; AI) *- 100% coverage of the parcel- ability to get out of all terrain traps

4. Connected object*- remote control- operates as managed fleets

Works alone in its plot from spring to summer

* 8 Patents

Vitirover is the first industrial, autonomous mower-

robot

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© 2018 Vitirover. All rights reserved.

The big data robot (2017-2018-2019)

Bugs count (grapevine Flavescence dorée)

Yield harvesting forecast

Vine vigor measurement (NDVI)

Weather Mapping- Frost zone

- hydric stress

Vine stock per vine stock cartographies

+ Vineyard Expert System (ERP)

Reduction of phytosanitary inputs

- Meteo sensors (in the robot & in the plot)- Two cameras and various led lighting

(white, red, infrared and ultraviolet)

Developed as part of a European

collaborative project

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Winemaking/marketing innovations

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“Virtual Sommeliers”

• +25% of wine drinkers use apps to help purchase (Forbes)

• Wine recommendation apps (AskJean, WineRing, WineStein)

• Perhaps future a wine sommelier robot?

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AI/Big data example: AskJean

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Winemaking

• AI today has vision and natural language capabilities – will it also develop smell and taste?? (Forbes.com)

• Wine Spectator is written by software. . .

• “Wine Spectator’s” lineup of wine critics — James Laube, Matt Kramer, Tim Fish, James Molesworth, Harvey Steiman et al.

• Entire publication is written by software developed by the entrepreneur Elon Muscadet

• “Wine isn’t that complicated,” Hunter Poynts, “Wine Spectator’s” A.I. guru, tells me, “and assigning them numeric scores couldn’t be easier. I think it’s clear from the proliferation of imbeciles giving numbers to wine on the internet that, for the consumer, assigning meaning to scores is like believing someone’s weight on their Tinder profile. Where the hell did they come up with that number? They need to buy a new Hundred Point Scale, the one they stood on is broken.”

• The challenge was to make it seem like the wines submitted for review had been tasted by a living person. Laube, Kramer, Fish, Molesworth —all of the “Wine Spectator” team—had, at one time, been real people, but now are owned entirely by Marvin Shanken, who farms them for organs. This made Poynts’ job considerably easier.

• “I had decades of their reviews to feed into the computer, in most cases. It’s not hard after that for the A.I. to then fabricate a believable review of, say, the latest release of Ridge Zinfandel and put Tim Fish’s initials after it. Frankly, it’s not much of a challenge at all; the guy has the vocabulary of a mynah bird. Multiply that by the hundreds of reviews in any issue, though, and that makes it a task a human being couldn’t accomplish. For the computer, it takes a few seconds.”

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Blockchain• Use case – i.e. wine labels (i.e. LaVi in Italy)

• Each of LaVis’ bottles now comes with a smart label – a unique QR code – that the buyer scans.

• This label tells the ‘story’ of the wine. Not just the history of LaVis and their vineyards, but a full account of the wine’s DNA• when and where the grapes were harvested• how the wine was treated (i.e. sulphites)• bottling date• lot number • and more.

• Based on data capture at each stage of the wine making process• manual records• automated tools like drones and Internet of Things (IoT) technology

• Recorded into a blockchain.

• Each time the bottle moves – between producers, brokers, importers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers – the status of the bottle is also updated on the blockchain.

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Postgraduate Information Session:South African Grape and Wine Research Institute

@Stellenbosch University

When: Thursday, 29 August 17:00-18h00Where: JH Neethling Building , Room 1027

RSVP: lorette@sun.ac.za (by 28 August at 12:00)

Snacks and drinks will be available after the session and academics and current students in

Grape and Wine Sciences will be available to provide you with additional information.

Are you an engineering student with an interest in research/innovation in the

grape/wine industries?

Join us to hear more about opportunities at this new

research institute that operates across faculties.

Degrees in Viticulture, Oenology and Biotechnologyform part of integrated Grape

and Wine Sciences.

Bursaries available for Hons, MSc and PhD studies.

Dankie!