“VineSpy: Battery-Free, Low-Cost WSN for Vineyard Smart Agriculture Applications”

In this application is proposed the VineSpy, a wireless sensor network (WSN) with low-cost sensor nodes affordable for most of the vine farmers. Through VineSpy the farmers will be able to achieve a more efficient multi-microclimate monitoring and reduce food waste. In addition, the use of small solar panels instead of batteries will provide energy autonomy and will reduce the costs compare to other conventional systems. Each sensor node will have no battery thus the idea is to create a low maintenance system. Every sensor node will include environmental sensors of humidity, temperature, atmospheric pressure and will be able to send data to a low-cost base station via Bluetooth Low energy (BLE) technology. The base station will be in the middle of the vineyard field and will consist of a low cost smartphone with BLE connectivity.