title: Portable system for temperature monitoring in all phases of wine production.
abstract: This paper presents a low-cost and highly versatile temperature-monitoring system applicable to all phases of wine production, from grape cultivation through to delivery of bottled wine to the end customer. Monitoring is performed by a purpose-built electronic system comprising a digital memory that stores temperature data and a ZigBee communication system that transmits it to a Control Centre for processing and display. The system has been tested under laboratory conditions and in real-world operational applications. One of the system's advantages is that it can be applied to every phase of wine production. Moreover, with minimum modification, other variables of interest (pH, humidity, etc.) could also be monitored and the system could be applied to other similar sectors, such as olive-oil production.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics, University of Alcalá, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Spain. luciano@depeca.uah.es
authors.forename: Luciano
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Boquete
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cambralla
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Ascariz
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Miguel-Jiménez
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Cantos-Frontela
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dongil
mesh_terms: D000389:Air Conditioning / Q000379:methods*; D003142:Communication; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005285:Fermentation; D005516:Food Microbiology; D007221:Industry; D008838:Microcomputers; D012984:Software; D013696:Temperature; D027843:Vitis; D014920:Wine