Description du projet
Un nouveau dispositif pour contrôler la maturation du raisin
Le marché européen du raisin est hautement concurrentiel. La demande du raisin de table va crescendo. Si la vigne n’est pas très difficile à cultiver, elle a besoin de beaucoup de soins pour produire des fruits de qualité. Dans ce contexte, le projet i-GRAPE, financé par l’UE, mettra au point un système intelligent pleinement intégré, petit, bon marché et autonome visant à assurer le contrôle de la maturation du raisin. Plus particulièrement, une tête de détection optique (bande flexible ou verrière transparente) sera reliée à la grappe de raisin. Dotée de fonctionnalités de prétraitement des signaux et de communications sans fil, la tête de détection fera appel à la technologie optique (UV-VIS-NIR) qui intègre des sources LED et des réseaux de photodiodes/filtres d’interférence au niveau de la plaquette ou du paquet de plaquettes.
Objectif
This project aims at the development of fully integrated, small, low-cost, standalone smart system used for grape maturation
monitoring. It will consist of an optical detection head ( flexible strip or transparent canopy) connected to the grape bunch,
including power, signal pre-processing, and wireless communications. The detection head will be optically based (UV-VIS-NIR) using
an integration of LED sources and photodiode/interference filter arrays at wafer level or wafer package level. This project aims
at the development of a fully integrated, small, low-cost, standalone device used for grape maturation and vine hydric stress
monitoring. It will consist of an optical detection head connected to the top of the grape bunch, including power, signal
preprocessing, and communications. Reflectance and fluorescence measurements will be used at various wavelengths to probe spectral signatures for phenols (for instance anthocyanins reflectance have a maximum absorption band at around 500-540nm, and flavonols-reflectance at 300-400 at about 370nm), for clorophile chlorophylls (fluorescence at 680-750nm) and other indexes. pH and Brix will be correlated with the optical reflectance and fluorescence measurements. The project concept originated from conversations between Sogrape (a major wine producing company with estates in Portugal, Spain, Chile and Australia and the realization of the pressing need for the development of a standalone device for grape maturation and vine hydric stress control. Partners with the required know
how were then contacted to bring in and incorporate the various components required at wafer level, wafer package level, component level and system level necessary for the devclopment of an electronic smart system. Furthemore, the consortium as a whole can carry developed systems into volume production.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
4715-330 Braga
Portugal