Engineering
Custom Hardware/Software Solutions.
Viticulture and Enology: I have used my electrical engineering skills to build a variety of systems to measure and monitor wines, wineries, and vineyards. I offer consulting services to develop and implement hardware/software systems in your winery to meet your specific challenges.
General Applications: Microcontrollers, USB Data logging, Touch Screen Displays, Stepper Motors, Optoelectronic Systems, Wireless, Remote System Management
Temperature Logging Hardware/Software
Thermocouple Reader currently running at Settembre Cellars. The reader offers fast/accurate measurement from 4 independent thermocouples, data logging, user alert via email or text message for temperature out of a specified range. Log temperature of the winery itself, or via thermocouple wells monitor wine temperatures and fermentation profiles.
Prototype:
Turbidity Meter
Self calibrating narrow band Turbidity Meter with touch-screen GUI and USB drive data-logging.
Remote Data Logging
Solutions to capture and record temperature and humidity data in remote locations: shipping containers, vineyard sites, cellars, etc.,
Spectral Quantum Efficiency
I have experience designing, building, automating measurements, and analyzing the results with optoelectronic systems using both coherent (lasers) and incoherent light sources. I have previously built an automated system which sequentially scanned through the wavelengths that make up the solar spectrum in order to precisely measure the Quantum Efficiency (the number of electrons produced per electron incident) of solar cells over the entire solar spectrum. These same techniques can be used for absorption, reflection, and transmission measurements.
