Grape Networks Invades Europe
Grape Networks, a company specializing in the wireless sensor monitoring of vineyard microclimates and sensor canopy management on the Internet, announced that the company has established sales offices in Germany and France.
Since Grape Networks’ inception four years ago, the company has been dominating the vineyard marketplace for the wireless sensor monitoring of microclimates on the Internet in the U.S., but the U.S. only represents 5% of the 20 million world wide vineyard acres. Furthermore, according to Peter Tsepeleff, president of Grape Networks, “…the company has had a tremendous response in vineyards in the U.S., and now that we have a proven system, it is time to expand into the huge international arena.”
Grape Networks monitors vineyards with miniature wireless sensors embedded directly next to the grape berry. The sensors operate on just two double AA batteries, and transmit data in a wireless mesh to a gateway, where the data is sent to the Internet for reception anywhere in the world. Along with temperature, humidity and solar radiation, alerts for frost and powdery mildew are sent to any Internet enabled PC or mobile phone.
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