ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. ROBOTICS. INNOVATION
SECTION
Agricultural technology across the publication's desks.
Cameras mounted on tractors, drones, and phones are learning to count clusters, forecast yield, and spot virus. Three approaches to vineyard computer vision, and what the models still get wrong.
No single system runs the modern vineyard. At Redwood Empire Vineyard Management, AI arrives as a stack: LiDAR-guided spraying, soil and climate sensing, and smart irrigation valves, each solving one problem.
In a region shaped by drought, three companies are turning irrigation into a data problem: Lumo's smart valves from Napa County, Fruition Sciences' sap-flow sensing, and Agrology's predictive models. The water decision is becoming a software decision.
Vendors use these terms interchangeably. They are not interchangeable. A precise vocabulary for what the technology in Wine Country actually does, and why the distinction is this publication's credibility stake.