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Brix and chips: IT in the training and research winery of the robert mondavi institute at UC Davis
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2015
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Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
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The Department of Viticulture and Enology of University of California at Davis has recently been endowed with a new training and research (T\&R) winery. The heart of the winery is the fermentation room which houses close to 170 fermentation tanks of various sizes. The high-tech fermentation tanks raise fermentation control to a new level. Each is equipped with digital sensors that were purpose-designed by a team of engineers led by a distinguished inventor and CEO of a semiconductor producing firm who also is a wine enthusiast. The sensors on a chip closely monitor fermentation and wirelessly transmit measurement data, e.g. data on Brix, to the winery's computers and into the cloud. In this paper we briefly