Winery Automation

For a large winery on Crete, we developed and produced a controller box to selectively open and close motorized valves of fermentation tanks, as well as read the temperatures of the tank’s contents, during the process of fermentation. The controller, with embedded ESP8266 system-on-chip (SOC) by Espressif, connects to the clients WiFi network. The valves’ movements can be remote-controlled through a web-interface. Our system also features a feedback mechanism, which can read the status of the electromechanical valves and inform a central server in case one of the valves has a mechanical failure. The central server can then send email messages to inform the client.