US 12,421,482 B2
Monitoring system for winemaking
Rogério Nunes Nogueira, Gafanha da Boa Hora (PT); Lúcia Maria Botas Bilro, Gafanha da Encarnação (PT); Fábio Patrício Domingues Gonçalves, Pombal (PT); Pedro Miguel Estima da Costa, Aveiro (PT); and Ricardo José Ventura de Sousa e Carvalho Pereira, Oporto (PT)
Assigned to Watgrid, S.A., (PT)
Filed by Watgrid, S.A., Ilhavo (PT)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/686,509.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/769,641, filed on Nov. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0157479 A1, May 21, 2020
Int. Cl. C12M 1/00 (2006.01); C12G 1/00 (2019.01); C12M 1/34 (2006.01); G01S 19/00 (2010.01); G01S 19/01 (2010.01); G08B 21/18 (2006.01)
CPC C12G 1/00 (2013.01) [C12M 41/12 (2013.01); C12M 41/26 (2013.01); C12M 41/30 (2013.01); C12M 41/40 (2013.01); C12M 41/44 (2013.01); G01S 19/01 (2013.01); G08B 21/182 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for monitoring winemaking comprising:
a first sensor operable to measure a wine parameter, wherein the first sensor is powered via a first voltage regulator;
a second sensor operable to measure an ambient condition;
a controller operable according to firmware stored in a memory, wherein:
the memory resides on a removable Flash card,
the controller is operable to generate an alarm according to the wine parameter and the ambient condition, and
the controller is powered via a second voltage regulator;
a wireless transmitter operable to communicate the wine parameter and the ambient condition to a remote database; and
a wireless receiver operable to receive a modification to the firmware.