This company provides a barrel monitoring system that tracks key metrics like temperature, humidity, SO2 levels, and pH balance during wine aging. Their sensors and app deliver real-time data and alerts, enabling winemakers to optimize the aging process and reduce costs.
Funding
$500K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Winemakers face challenges in consistently monitoring and managing the barrel aging process, which is critical for wine quality but labor-intensive and prone to inconsistencies. Traditional methods of manual sampling and lab analysis are costly, time-consuming, and provide only periodic snapshots of key parameters. This can lead to delayed detection of potential spoilage or quality degradation, resulting in financial losses.
Solution
Cogni for Wine offers a wireless, continuous barrel-monitoring system that provides real-time data and alerts to optimize the wine-aging process. The system uses a network of sensors placed in barrels to track key metrics, including temperature, humidity, phenol/guaiacol levels, acetic acid, free and molecular SO2, pH, alcohol content, and fill level. When any of these parameters deviate from user-defined tolerance ranges, the system sends instant notifications via mobile and desktop, enabling winemakers to respond quickly and mitigate potential hazards. The Cogni system supports micro-fermentation analysis, barrel aging, and empty-barrel storage monitoring, providing value throughout the barrel lifecycle.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes winemakers of all scales seeking to improve the consistency and quality of their barrel-aging process, reduce labor costs, and minimize the risk of spoilage.
Features
- Wireless sensors for continuous monitoring of key parameters inside wine barrels
- Real-time alerts via mobile, tablet, and desktop notifications when levels deviate from set tolerance ranges
- Measures temperature, humidity, phenol/guaiacol, acetic acid, free and molecular SO2, pH, alcohol, and fill level
- Networked devices that connect any number of barrels for comprehensive monitoring
- Micro-fermentation analysis capabilities for pre-harvest smoke exposure checks
- Monitoring of empty barrels to track SO2 and humidity levels during storage