Customer case
For whom?
Interprofessional organizations, GDON, winegrowers, wine estates, and vine service providers committed to monitoring Flavescence Dorée, a highly epidemic disease causing vine decline and, ultimately, plant death. The phytoplasma responsible for this disease is classified as a quarantine organism by the European Union.
Why
- Difficulty in visualizing the symptoms associated with a high risk of disease spread: the sustainability of entire vineyards may be at stake.
- The symptom expression period is very short and requires mobilizing a large number of trained experts in a short timeframe.
- Lack of reliable data sector by sector makes monitoring and prioritizing surveillance areas difficult.
Solution Provided by Expertise
- Data collection with our VitiBox sensor. This collection can be carried out on a large scale across a municipality or vineyard.
- Detection of suspected vines – broad spectrum – allowing the preliminary work to be streamlined and showing only the relevant vines to the expert.
- Identification of FD-infected vines via eVitivisio in just a few clicks. A single expert can survey very large areas in record time.
- Sampling or on-site verification of identified vines thanks to centimeter-level geolocation.
Time Savings
Locate an infected vine directly on the map with GPS → no need to walk through an entire vineyard plot on foot.
Rapid action
targeted treatment to prevent dissemination.
Historical overview
Track the spread of the disease over multiple seasons at the vineyard scale.
Increased precision
Centimeter-level positioning, reduced errors, optimized interventions
Greater resource efficiency
A single expert can survey very large areas
I used the Vitivisio sensor on my plots in 2024 and 2025. It’s a preventive tool for monitoring vine decline diseases, such as flavescence dorée. The sensor is mounted on my tractor, which is dedicated to soil work, and data is collected while I’m working, meaning no time is lost and no additional trips are needed. In the end, I get a real assessment of my vineyard plots without having to rely on time-consuming field inspections.
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