Using RFID to Track Temperature and Fermentation at a Winery

Feb 26, 2013The teaching and research winery at the University of California, Davis is using an RFID sensor system to measure the temperature and sugar content of its wine mixes. The system enables the school to monitor the wines within its fermenting vats, saving manual labor and providing more data regarding fermenting wine than most wineries can typically gather. Sugar and temperature sensors connected to RFID nodes transmit sensor data to a receiver (a dongl...