Fermentation OS · Award-Winning

Precision Fermentation.
Driven by AI.

The award-winning closed-loop Fermentation OS. Achieve 30% reduction in cooling costs while ensuring zero-defect winemaking.

Gold Medal · Plovdiv Fair 2023Most Innovative Startup 2023
Scepter Inox hardware and AI fermentation dashboard
Operating Standard

Three numbers that change the economics of a vintage.

Scepter does not sell features. It sells measurable outcomes — energy, accuracy, and total visibility over the fermentation process.

30%
Energy Savings

Closed-loop automated solenoid control replaces manual cooling cycles — measured reduction in cellar energy spend across pilot estates.

0.001 SG
Industrial Accuracy

In-tank specific gravity resolution at industrial measurement accuracy — calibration-lab class instrumentation, sealed and field-verifiable.

24/7
Total Traceability

Continuous AI monitoring captures hidden anomalies—like overnight temperature spikes from power outages—that routine morning checks miss.

The Smart Layer

Three capabilities that eliminate blind spots.

Industrial control hardware on the cellar floor, multi-modal forecasting in the cloud, one closed loop in the middle. Scepter governs every connected peripheral with the precision of a calibration lab — recording every fluctuation.

01

Predictive Biokinetics

We don't just track fermentation — we predict it. Strain-specific Gompertz S-curve kinetics model each yeast culture to forecast the exact exothermic peak — its timing, magnitude and duration — before it happens. Cooling is pre-charged to the biology instead of chasing it, then executed by closed-loop solenoid control within seconds: locally autonomous, cloud-coordinated, fully auditable.

02

Fermentation Automation

Flawless repetition of fermentation profiles. Style-specific recipes — Bordeaux extraction, Burgundian whole-cluster, sparkling base — replicated to the decimal across vintages, tanks, and cellars.

03

Hardware Excellence

IP68 sealed and fully wireless. Built for industrial longevity and sanitary by design, featuring a multi-protocol radio with LoRaWAN edge resilience.

Enterprise Platform

Built for teams. Built to scale.

Scepter ships with the enterprise foundation your winery operations demand — from day-one setup to multi-site governance.

Zero-Touch Provisioning

Scan the QR code on the box, drop the sensor in the tank, and monitor instantly. No Wi-Fi passwords, no IP configurations, no IT department required. Your team is live before the first punch-down.

< 90 secFrom unboxing to live telemetry

Enterprise Access Control

Share live fermentation data with your head winemaker, cellar hands, or external consultants with one click. Granular roles ensure every team member sees exactly what they need — nothing more.

Role-gatedPer user · per tank · per site

Unlimited Vintage History

Your fermentation history is stored forever in our cloud data warehouse. Compare this year's vintage with last year's down to the minute — across every tank, every estate, every harvest.

Vintages retained, forever

Offline-First Safety

Lose the Wi-Fi and nothing is lost. If the cellar drops off the network, the SCEPTER edge controller never freezes or overheats a tank — it instantly falls back to a Local Hysteresis PID Loop, holding your enologist's exact setpoint from the on-site probe until the cloud returns. Autonomy at the edge, not dependency on it.

0%Network risk to the batch
Gold Medal for InnovationInternational Fair Plovdiv · Electronics & EE · 2023
America for Bulgaria FoundationScience with a Future · 25,000 BGN Grant · 2024
Trusted In Production

Estates already running on the Scepter platform.

From boutique cellars to estate-grade production lines, winemakers across the region trust Scepter to govern fermentation autonomously — and to defend their style without supervision.

Cellar · 01

Tsarina Wine

Bulgaria · 9 fermenters

Best White Wine, Vinaria 2021

Cellar · 02

Chateau Dzhemperliev

Bulgaria · Estate cellar

AI-governed fermentation suite

Cellar · 03

Dimitrovi Winery

Bulgaria · Boutique

Closed-loop temperature control

Deep-Tech Pedigree

The board mirrors the technology.

Precision winemaking is a science, so we built the team like a laboratory: three decades of industrial enology, rigorous thermodynamic modeling, production-grade software, and the commercial discipline to put it in real cellars. The same fusion that makes SCEPTER safe — biology guiding physics — is written into the people who advise it.

Dr. Daniel Rusev

Dr. Daniel Rusev

Founder · Chief Architect

Software architect and ecosystem lead. Designed the closed-loop control plane that runs every Scepter cellar.

Mihaela Ruseva

Dr. Mihaela Rusev,

Marketing & Sales

Marketing and sales expert. Drives the growth of the Scepter brand and the adoption of the Scepter platform.

Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Stoyanov

Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Stoyanov

Scientific Advisor

Enology and process advisor. Calibrates control logic against three decades of industrial winemaking.

Assoc. Prof. Panko Mitev

Assoc. Prof. Panko Mitev

Scientific Advisor

Scientific advisor. Provides technical expertise and guidance to the Scepter team.