Hahn Family Wines

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Today, there’s tremendous pressure to grow more than ever. Crop yields have to increase, despite changing climates that can cut harvests by 25%.1 And growers need to do more with less land, since agricultural land use has declined 13% in the U.S. since 1949. 2

From vine to wine How IoT affects crop quality and yield

When you get into crop specifics, it gets even more complicated. At vineyards, for example, minor fluctuations in climate can make the difference between a highly sought-after vintage and a hard-to-sell wine.

Who are the growers of the future? The wine industry is incredibly competitive. Imagine calculating all the variables and implementing the changes necessary to increase quality and yield while reducing use of materials, energy, water and labor. For vineyards with more than 1,000 acres, the task is even more amplified. • In California, 5,900 growers raise winegrapes on 608,000 acres.3 • The world over, there are more than 17 million vineyard acres.4 When typical yields can range from three to six tons per acre,5 finding ways to boost the harvest can have million-dollar results.

A smarter approach to making better wine Verizon brings together viticulture and technology, integrating many different components into one Internet of Things (IoT) solution powered by our ThingSpace

“Our IoT platform, as well as our analytics, gives us the ability to understand data and information on multiple scales, giving growers and farmers better insight into what’s happening on their farms.” Ashok Srivastava, Chief Data Scientist, Verizon

platform. Using the Verizon network, cloud and connected machines, Verizon AgTech: Vineyard collects data and produces easy-to-follow irrigation prescriptions to improve your harvest.

How Hahn Family Wines got grapes to talk Both vineyard and winemaker, Hahn Family Wines owns and sustainably farms more than

Using AgTech: Vineyard sensors, data modeling and customized dashboard, Hahn Family Wines takes crop management to the next level.

Weather station transmitters that update every 15 minutes

1,100 acres in California. Looking for a way to improve quality while decreasing operating costs, the Hahn family chose AgTech: Vineyard to gather data at every stage of the growing process. Now they can understand what’s happening with their crops in real time and provide what’s needed, when it’s needed and where it’s needed. Now the vineyard has what it needs to reduce the use of materials, labor, energy and water, as well as increase crop quality and yield. Based on historical data, better grapes in the pilot section mean a significant increase in revenue across the field. Even more important,

Sensors that measure temperature, wind, rainfall, global radiation and humidity

Drip-line flow sensors at each block in the field

Modeling to display plant stress

A single-pane-of-glass dashboard, providing a simple prescription for irrigation

uniformity in sugar and tannins can lead to higher critic scores, higher demand and more awards—results that can put Hahn Family Wines ahead of the competition.

for the sixth consecutive testing period among the four national wireless companies in the United States by RootMetrics in its National RootScore® Report.6

Why Verizon

Our expertise in networking, cloud and connectivity gives you the capabilities to help develop a responsive and flexible IoT solution, customized to your needs. In fact, 98% of the Fortune 500 rely on our services and technologies.7 More businesses choose Verizon than any other wireless carrier.8

When it comes to IoT, the network matters. If sensors in the field don’t have a reliable network connection, growers won’t have access to the information they need to make important decisions. Verizon offers America’s largest, most reliable 4G LTE network. Our network was rated number one in overall network performance

1 The World Bank Agriculture Overview, March 21, 2016. http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/overview 2 “Major Land Uses in the United States, 1945–2007,” USDA, Economic Research Services using data from the Major Land Uses series. http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=58260 3 California wine industry statistical highlights, The Wine Institute. http://www.wineinstitute.org/files/Wine_Institute_2015_Economic_Impact_Highlights.pdf 4 “World Vineyard Acreage by Country,” The Wine Institute. http://www.wineinstitute.org/files/World_Vineyard_Acreage_by_Country_2014_cTradeDataAndAnalysis.pdf 5 Cooper, Klonsky and De Moura, “Sample Costs to Establish a Vineyard and Produce Winegrapes,” U.C. Davis, 2012. http://coststudyfiles.ucdavis.edu/uploads/cs_public/23/26/2326336b-eb3e-4cda-a0f4-cca46e84429b/winegrapenc2012.pdf 6 Rankings based on the RootMetrics® U.S. National RootScore Report: 1H 2016. Tested with best commercially available smartphones on four national mobile networks across all available network types. Your experiences may vary. The RootMetrics award is not an endorsement of Verizon. Visit www.rootmetrics.com for more details. 7 Verizon internal research. 8 Results based on an independent research study of 6,786 business locations using corporate liable wireless service. Telephone interviews were conducted between 4Q2015 and 3Q2016 with the employee most knowledgeable of telecommunications service. Network details & coverage maps at vzw.com. © 2016 Verizon. UC03511016

Learn more. To learn more about AgTech: Vineyard, contact your Verizon business specialist.



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