NIR spectrometer for assessing ripeness of wine grapes. It is palm sized device that you take to the vineyard and by scanning many bunches you get numbers you n

NIR spectrometer for assessing ripeness of wine grapes. It is palm sized device that you take to the vineyard and by scanning many bunches you get numbers you need: brix, pH, acids. There are many research papers talking about it for many years, but till recently there was not cheap enough hardware available so it just get stuck in university laboratories. It is still tough project to pull out as it combine hardware, cloud software, machine learning and there is quite some laboratory work required as well. Doing all of this as a single person and bootstraping is extra challenge but I guess I don't know better. I've got into it 5 years ago, when I decided to quit technology, bought small farm and build winery. At first I wanted to analyze the wine itself, basically to make traditional method obsolete, but performance of this kind of instruments are not good enough for liquid that complex. It turned out grape analysis is much easier target to tackle.