The German Diverfarming-team participated at the Hackathon in Trier
Winegrowers, programmers, scientists and geoinformatic students came together for the second Mosel wine-hack at February 16th and 17th. Aim of the meeting was to work in interdisciplinary teams on solutions, prototypes and ideas for digitization in viticulture and to produce creative, useful and / or entertaining products for several questions within a given timeframe. A hackathon (composed of "to hack" and marathon) is an event for the collaborative development of software and hardware products.
Six teams developed ideas and prototypes for two "challenges" of the companies ERO GmbH (machine and equipment construction for the vineyard) and Vineyard Cloud GmbH (management software for winemakers).
At the end of the event, the groups presented their respective ideas. A jury consisting of Jens Wagner (ERO GmbH), Marcel Sambale-Lergenmüller (Vineyard-Cloud GmbH) and Prof. Dominik Durner (Weincampus Neustadt) selected two winning groups:
One group showed how to harvest grapes by harvester as precisely as possible. The goal was to switch off harvest equipment if areas without grapes or grapes in bad quality were passed by the harvester. In time analysis of digital photo- and video recordings should be used to switch off the machinery.
The second challenge - launched by vineyard cloud – was asking for solutions to generate data about harvesting parameters (time, location and yield of harvested grapes). One of three groups was formed by students from Trier University together with Cord Treseler, Thomas Iserloh and Felix Dittrich from the German Diverfarming-team. This group developed a concept to collect data by tracking collection containers with NFC- and RFID-transponders from vintage to wine press using a smartphone (low cost) or on-board equipment on machinery.
The second hackathon thus created a solid basis for the implementation of efficient ideas and products in the digitization of viticulture. The event was organized by geocoptix GmbH, the app studio trier and the Local Agenda 21 in partnership with the City of Trier and the Weincampus Neustadt.
Diverfarming is a project financed by the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Commission, within the challenge of “Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy”, which counts on the participation of the Universities of Cartagena and Córdoba (Spain), Tuscia (Italy), Exeter and Portsmouth (United Kingdom), Wageningen (Netherlands), Trier (Germany), Pecs (Hungary) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland), the research centres Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (Italy), the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain) and the Natural Resources Institute LUKE (Finland), the agrarian organisation ASAJA, and the companies Casalasco and Barilla (Italy), Arento, Disfrimur Logística and Industrias David (Spain), Nieuw Bromo Van Tilburg and Ekoboerdeij de Lingehof (Netherlands), Weingut Dr. Frey (Germany), Nedel-Market KFT and Gere (Hungary) and Paavolan Kotijuustola and Polven Juustola (Finland).
