Supporting on-vineyard decisions with VitiApp

• VitiApp is a pre-commercial web-based application for supporting decisions about vineyard management

• Environmental data (weather, soil) are used to describe conditions influencing grape yield and fruit composition

• Cloud computing is enabling integration of multiple data streams from a diversity of environmental sensors

• The Sense-T data platform (www.sense-t.org.au) ingests observed and forecast time-series data from the Bureau of Meteorology and integrates data from third party on-vineyard sensors

• VitiApp accesses these data to provide vineyard patch-specific awareness of weather-based risks for each selected management issue: botrytis, powdery, downy, frost, chilling, heat and heat accumulation, wind, rainfall, soil moisture and/or spraying conditions