INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory hosted the first Tech@Week dedicated to ‘Industry 4.0’ and the ‘Green Transition’, an event promoted by ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação.
During the first session of the Tech@Week powered by Tech4Innov discussions revolved around ‘Industry 4.0’, its main trends and challenges and how they are challenging and revolutionizing the way companies manufacture, how they are improving and distributing their products by integrating new technologies and including the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, analytics, and AI and machine learning into their production facilities and throughout their operations.
Participants were also able to attend the Green Disruption Summit 2022, an event that brought together technological StartUps in the areas of cleantech, green economy, sustainable mobility, zero emissions and climate change and addressed topics such as energy, transport and agri-food. This session was by INTEC – European Foundation for Innovation and Technology under the framework of the project HIBA.
During the event, it was also possible to participate in the Tech@Week Demo Session, a showcase of demonstrators of the technologies being developed within Project Baterias 2030, a set of demos covering ICT-based solutions for cognitive vitality training, lightweight electronics by Injection Molding in Seamless Architecture, autonomous systems to harvest raspberry, based on artificial intelligence and robotics, and others and network with various entities: INESC-TEC, Beeverycreative, Instituto Telecomunicações, Simoldes, DTX Colab, CEiiA, University of Minho, CELOPLAS, BOSCH, CENTI, IPN, CTCV, Viridius.
Tech@Weeks is an initiative promoted and organized by ANI that aims to bring together, for a week in the upcoming months, the main actors of the national innovation system to promote empowering debates showcasing technology, innovation and effective results and are being promoted within the scope of SIAC – Knowledge Transfer Initiative, an initiative co-financed by Compete 2020, through Portugal 2020 and the European Regional Development Fund.
i-Grape International Workshop
i-Grape team is organizing the International Workshop on July 18, 2022, at INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in a hybrid format. During this International Workshop, different scientists and industry representatives will discuss together the outputs of the i-Grape project, as well as the present and the future of Precision Viticulture with contributions from the different latitudes of the world of wine.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
i-GRAPE aims at developing a new generation of analytical methods for stand-alone, on-the-field control of the grape maturation phase and vine hydric stress, based on highly integrated photonic components and modules (wafer and wafer/package level micro-spectrometers). In a highly competitive market, to achieve high-quality wines, measuring and monitoring vine hydric stress, and the grape ripening process with simple, rapid and cost-effective techniques will allow the winemaker to control irrigation in the latest steps of grape maturation, and plan the harvest at the optimum time, therefore, optimizing wine quality at the end of the wine value chain.
The i-GRAPE approach complies, through the development of innovative integrated photonic components and modules, with the needs of a low-cost, reliable, sensitive, stable and high throughput analysis that interconnected with communications and signal processing electronics, can bring the process control of grape maturation into the hands of the winemaker.
And the long-term i-GRAPE vision is to bring the ‘lab” to the vine, and the parameters pertaining to vine and grape control to the home base station on the farm, without human intervention and it can only be achieved by developing smarter and modular systems that allow for future integration of cost-effective multi-mode sensors.
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
i-GRAPE aims at developing a new generation of analytical methods for stand-alone, on-the-field control of the grape maturation phase and vine hydric stress, based on highly integrated photonic components and modules (wafer and wafer/package level micro-spectrometers). In a highly competitive market, to achieve high-quality wines, measuring and monitoring vine hydric stress, and the grape ripening process with simple, rapid and cost-effective techniques will allow the winemaker to control irrigation in the latest steps of grape maturation, and plan the harvest at the optimum time, therefore, optimizing wine quality at the end of the wine value chain.
The i-GRAPE approach complies, through the development of innovative integrated photonic components and modules, with the needs of a low-cost, reliable, sensitive, stable and high throughput analysis that interconnected with communications and signal processing electronics, can bring the process control of grape maturation into the hands of the winemaker.
And the long-term i-GRAPE vision is to bring the ‘lab” to the vine, and the parameters pertaining to vine and grape control to the home base station on the farm, without human intervention and it can only be achieved by developing smarter and modular systems that allow for future integration of cost-effective multi-mode sensors.