SITEVI 2009 Innovation Awards Results

Wine-making equipment will take pride of place, and the first trend is already focusing on the quality of wine-making, clearly evidenced here with new portable sensors for vineyards. The most modern technologies, for example, determine the optimum date for harvesting, or use computers mounted on board harvesting machines, something which no other sector of application can pride itself in.  Decision-support tools for vineyard management now benefit from state-of-the-art technology delivered by on-board information systems for the control, administration or management of grape harvesting machines.

Knowledge of the wine-making process opens up new avenues for fermentation management, the treatment of musts and for filtering, or in simplifying the programming of presses. Upstream of the mechanization of operations for managing and maintaining vineyards, traditional technologies provide a direct response to energy efficiency programmes, or the need to limit the use of plant-care products, in line with the Ecophyto 2018 European plan.

The economic difficulties currently being experienced by the wine market are also encouraging innovation in marketing strategy.. The packaging of wines must be faultless in terms of health and laboratory measurements are being developed and made available to producers with increasing speed. The marketing of wines has benefited from innovations in terms of packaging, with the simplification of packs that favour advertising. This is a sector undergoing rapid growth, just like SITEVI, which will also be showcasing all the equipment needed for fruit and market-garden farming.