The New Architecture in the Vineyard System Management for Variable Rate Technologies and Traceability.

The report analyses the technological progress in the Precision Viticulture Mechanization and the arising problems related to its efficient diffusion. In the last decade the precision farming approach and the new achievements and developed tools have offered new possibilities to control in detail the site-specific features of soil, microclimate, crops status as in the growing season as in the different years. Moreover, tools as that of ICT-information communication technologies, have developed database and models that permit exactly to indicate the better management choices. All these technological possibilities together, have determined the possibility of a crops management architecture to better achieve a sustainable process and to determine an automatic system of traceability in terms of inputs and operations applied. Fall points are arising as standards lack on ICT and in particular the webGIS core system and also in data transmission protocols to control and communicate with equipment. New perspectives are so predictable for the wineries, new services companies and new competencies for the agronomists.