Wine is amongst the most delicate and nuanced of agricultural produce. Around the grape-growing world, experienced producers have considered and experimented with adaptations. From droughts to hotter summers, to warmer winters, to the unexpected. Even violent events that can emanate from climate change, for example freak hailstorms, spring frosts, flooding, and forest fires, to name a few.

Farmers have been on the front line of climate change effects. Grape growers especially have been seeing extreme changes in weather patterns for decades. Short term, some of these changes have benefited certain regions yet with no way of determining what changes were happening and when, it can become impossible to keep growing. Farmer’s Hive introduced remote monitoring of the micro-climates in real-time as a plug and play solution. Meaning wireless, no computer, no third party network, or installers needed.

The intelligent IoT device is sent to you. Then connected to solar power or standard electrical outlet, battery pack to begin sending a live stream of environmental data. Information is available from anywhere through the Farmer’s Hive cloud-based platform. This means, there is an understanding of what is happening in the environment from anywhere in real-time to  improve plant health.