Wireless Wine Monitoring

Wynken de Word writes "An article in Canada's Globe and Mail says 'vineyard owner Don King is coaxing 30,000 plants to grow grapes of exactly the right colour, size and sweetness to produce great ice wine and other fine vintages...with the help of judicious watering, a knowledge of the age-old art of viniculture -- and electronic sensing devices linked together in a wireless network.' Using an Intel-based TinyOS and TinyDB, multiple sensing devices monitor grape micro climates and help determine irrigation and frost patterns."

Comments

Don King..

[Blaster Jaack]

owner Don King is coaxing 30,000 plants to grow grapes of exactly the right colour, size and sweetness

because of legal issues they had to replace the word boxers with plants

other-kind-of-wine dept.??

[Lu Xun]

And here I thought it was something to keep those pesky Windows APIs from getting all uppity.

Re:Ice wine art ?

[jpsst34]

I thought they renamed your country to "Freedom."

Frost Patterns Thwarted By AMD

[Root Down]

Using an Intel-based TinyOS and TinyDB, multiple sensing devices monitor grape micro climates and help determine irrigation and frost patterns.

Now, if they had only used AMD chips, the increased heat alone would have obviated the need to check for frost patterns!

Re:is it me or is that kind of weird?

[cruppel]

This whole idea sounds like sour grapes to me =)

Re:Don't know

[m00nun1t]

"Would you like a McWine with that big mac?"

And once you've got the wine

[AndroidCat]

Start up your Computer controlled barbecue slow cooker and have a party! Yeeha!

Re:oh YES!!

[aborchers]

Yeah, if Americans really knew anything about France and wanted to piss them off, we'd name more of our lousy food after them. ;-)

Re:Price vs Quality

[schlach]

This is hilarious. A first for Slashdot: the high-brow flame war.

Let those suits tell us we're a bunch of unsophisticated cretins now. =p

Coaxing

[kingswell]

When I first skimmed the blurb I seriously thought "Well if he's coaxing the vines that's not very wireless, is it" and had odd thoughts of RG-6 throughout a vineyard. Glad to hear he's not co-ax-ing.

Yes.

[John Penix]

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species I realized that you're not actually plants. Every plant on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you grapes do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every fencepost is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another fence. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Grapes are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and the French are the cure.