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Viticulture

When you're responsible for dozens or even hundreds of vineyard blocks, you know guesswork can lead to loss of control. How much more control could you gain over fruit quality, water use, and harvest timing if your data actually matched what your vines were experiencing, block by block? Without that view, irrigation windows slip, stress builds quietly, and fruit quality suffers. By measuring where the vines live, you see issues early and keep water use, yield, and timing under control.

Variability is the enemy of precision

Even within a single vineyard, moisture, slope, soil, and microclimate conditions can vary, sometimes row to row. But managing it all by instinct or blanket schedules means risking:

Missed stress signals that impact sugar, color, or berry size

Over- or under-irrigation that wastes water and inputs

Inefficient labor deployments and reactive decisions

Managing a vineyard at scale doesn’t mean losing visibility. METER systems are purpose built to bring scientific-grade insights to every block, without overcomplicating your operation. Here’s how:

TEROS 12 soil sensors provide water content, temperature, and salinity directly in the root zone, without complex setup or frequent recalibration.

ATMOS 41 weather stations monitor key above-ground conditions like solar radiation, wind, humidity, and temperature: essential for understanding evapotranspiration and disease risk.

SC-1 leaf porometer gives you rapid, accurate measurements of leaf stomatal conductance in the field: essential for understanding water stress and fine-tuning irrigation timing.

IRT (infrared radiometer) measures canopy temperature non-destructively, offering another layer of insight into plant stress and transpiration dynamics.

ZENTRA Cloud gives you a central dashboard to view and compare data from every sensor and block, helping you act quickly and confidently.

From field to cloud in three easy steps

Getting started with METER doesn’t require a huge overhaul. Our systems are modular, scalable, and designed to fit into your existing operation:

Install TEROS and ATMOS sensors across key vineyard zones.

Connect to ZENTRA Cloud to view real-time data, trends, and sensor maps across all blocks.

Use that data to make faster irrigation, labor, and harvest decisions that protect your fruit, and your margins.

More control. Better fruit.

Less stress.

With so many variables across a vineyard, even a few missed signals can lead to big losses. Without a scalable monitoring solution, it’s easy to overlook problems until they’re too late to fix. Without reliable, site-specific monitoring, you risk:

Lost yield or quality due to undetected stress

Wasted water, labor, and inputs

Missed harvest windows that impact sugar or acidity levels

With METER in your vineyard, you gain the clarity to be proactive instead of reactive. Our technology gives you confidence in every decision because you gain a repeatable, scalable way to:

Understand what’s happening underground and in the canopy, everywhere in the vineyard

Spot problems early and allocate labor precisely

Protect consistency and quality from one season to the next

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"METER's products are a great value and provide a wide range of capabilities for my growers to monitor the soil and weather environments in their vineyards. The people I've worked with [at METER] have all been exceptionally tuned into my requests."

Assoc. Professor Emeritus of Geosciences David Wilkins | Boise State University

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Viticulture solutions

Don’t let small gaps in visibility become costly mistakes. Get scalable sensor networks and real-time data that help you manage stress, optimize irrigation, and protect fruit quality, without being everywhere at once. Explore METER vineyard solutions.

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Soil moisture monitoring
Atmospheric evapotranspiration
Plant stress monitoring

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Better fruit starts with better data. In viticulture, guessing when and how much to water can cost you—in yield, quality, and wasted inputs. METER gives you the full picture of the vine environment by combining water content, water potential, salinity, and atmospheric data into one simple system. With accurate, site-specific insight, you can dial in the right timing and amount for irrigation and nutrient applications—preventing leaching, reducing waste, and improving consistency across blocks. And with ZENTRA Cloud, it’s all at your fingertips—anytime, anywhere.

Soil moisture monitoring

Precision irrigation in vineyards starts below the surface. To make the right call on when—and how much—to water, you need more than just a water content reading. You need to know both volumetric water content (VWC) and water potential—so you can see how available the soil water actually is to your vines. METER’s research-grade soil moisture tools give you the clarity to irrigate with precision, reduce waste, and avoid stress before it impacts fruit quality. It’s everything you need to protect yield and stretch every drop further.

Water content

Water potential

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Measure the soil moisture profile at multiple depths using a single TEROS profile probe or multiple TEROS water content sensors, all connected to a cloud enabled data logger

Measure both water content and availability at a single site by installing TEROS water content sensors and TEROS water potential sensors at multiple depths

Atmospheric evapotranspiration

Your vines don’t live a mile away—your weather data shouldn’t either. Microclimates matter in viticulture. The weather station down the road may be reading something completely different than what your vines are experiencing. That disconnect can lead to overwatering, under-irrigating, or mistimed interventions. METER’s in-field, research-grade weather stations deliver highly localized evapotranspiration data, right from your vineyard—so you can make informed, timely decisions that protect fruit quality and optimize water use.

Evapotranspiration

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ATMOS 41W Z

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Plant stress monitoring

Higher-quality fruit starts with controlled stress—not guesswork. Intentional vine stress at key growth stages is essential to developing premium fruit—but push it too far, and you risk irreversible damage or vine loss. The key is knowing exactly where that line is. METER’s canopy-level monitoring tools give you real-time insight into vine stress, so you can strike the right balance—maximizing quality while protecting long-term vine health and vineyard productivity.

Above-canopy weather monitoring

ATMOS 41 Gen 2 Z
ATMOS 41W Z

Canopy temperature

IRT Z

In-canopy atmospheric monitoring

ATMOS 14 Z

Stomatal conductance

SC-1 Leaf Porometer

Volumetric water content

TEROS 54 Z

Water potential

TEROS 22 Z

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ZENTRA System

Customize your data collection and logging solution by combining multiple METER sensors with the ZL6 Data Logger and ZENTRA Cloud. ZENTRA stores your data in the cloud, allowing easy access to your data and near-real-time reports from all of your data loggers.

Avoid costly field visits by accessing your data from any web-connected device. Analyze it with ZENTRA Cloud’s built-in visualization tools, and easily share insights without tracking down log files on individual computers.

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