CONNECTIVITY
“IN 15 YEARS, SYSTEMS WILL COLLABORATE AND EACH
PERSON ON SITE WILL BE CONNECTED AND FULLY
events allows us to instantly suggest
a corrective course of action – and
we’re constantly adding Expert
Alerts to the system.”
Robot dawn beckons
Agronomics requires whole-farm
intelligence to work through a single
platform. Site-specific yield, biomass
or soil conductivity maps can
inform sub-field analysis for
bespoke efficiency. “Instead of
treating fields as one performance
factor and blanket-applying seed or
fertiliser, treating areas of a field at
variable rates saves time and
36 iVTInternational.com February 2020
money,” says Howard. Precision
farming requires a Farm
Management System (FMS) like
John Deere’s own platform.
“MyJohnDeere is the cloud-based
home for agronomic data. Whether
it’s tracking machines, sending them
files, visualising a combine’s yield
map or creating a variable-rate map
to send back out to a spreader, it’s
done through MyJohnDeere.com –
a free service making any JDLink
machine more valuable. An FMS
provides all the information on how
your farm is running and informs
next season’s decisions.”
Instead of conversing directly,
autonomous tractor swarms will
more probably trade reports and
instructions via evolved FMS
platforms. In construction, similarly
connected environments are
envisaged, like that enabled by
Doosan’s Concept-X controlenvironment
demo in South Korea.
But for robot worlds to prosper,
multicoloured fleets will need
a shared platform and language.
OEMs are providing telematics data
in APIs available to any system, while
in both agriculture and construction,
standardisation is afoot. Developed
by Claas, John Deere and
365FarmNet, the DataConnect
cloud-to-cloud solution enables
multi-branded machinery data to be
shared by common interface and
used by any platform. The US
Association of Equipment
Management Professionals (AEMP)
is spear-heading ISO15143-3, the
harmonised standard for off-highway
telematic data-transmission.
“In 15 years, systems will
collaborate and each person on site
will be connected and fully visible to
an AI algorithm,” predicts Nilsson.
“You’ll arrive and be told where to
go by an app or arrows on your VR
glasses.” Connectivity may no longer
be optional. iVT
ABOVE: MyJohnDeere
connectivity provides
advanced precision
farming
BELOW: John Deere’s
new autonomous concept
tractor will require
reliable connectivity to
function effectively. For
more details see our
concept tractor round up,
starting on page 14
VISIBLE TO AN AI ALGORITHM”
Catrin Nilsson, connected solutions platform manager, Volvo CE
/iVTInternational.com
/MyJohnDeere.com