Machine Control System Providing Actionable Management Information and Insight Using Agricultural Telematics

Abstract

A machine control system includes an agricultural work machine having an ECU coupled via a system bus to control engine functions, a GPS receiver, data collector, and specialized guidance system including a stored program. The data collector captures agricultural geospatial data including location data for the work machine and data from the ECU, and executes the stored program to: (a) capture geometries of the farm; (b) capture agricultural geospatial data; (c) automatically classify the agricultural geospatial data using the geometries of the farm, into activity / event categories including operational, travel, and ancillary events; (d) aggregate the classified data to create geospatial data events; (e) match the geospatial data events to a model to generate matched events; (f) use the matched events to generate actionable information for the working machine in real time or near real-time; and (g) send operational directives to the agricultural work machine based on the actionable information.

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RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application is a Continuation to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16 / 043,229 filed Jul. 24, 2108, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62 / 536,026, entitled Actionable Management Information and Insight System for Agricultural Telematics (AMIISAT), filed on Jul. 24, 2017, and is a Continuation-In-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15 / 490,791, entitled Machine Guidance for Optimal Working Direction of Travel, filed on Apr. 18, 2017, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety for all purposes.BACKGROUNDTechnical Field[0002]This invention relates to a machine control system for agricultural equipment, and more specifically, to a system and method that uses real-time, or near real-time, adaptive analysis to provide actionable management information and operational directives to agricultural machines using agricultural geospatial data.Background Information[0003]Actionable information...

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Problems solved by technology

A major source of difficulty in this management can be attributed to properly managing the associated operating equipment and the corresponding data that it can generate.

The collection and analysis of this geospatial data can also take many man hours and be computationally expensive in current farm management information systems.

They are also, very often, unstandardized in terms of the type of data that is stored.

Processing the large amount of telematics data along with said equipment configurations, and the various potential activities / uses of said equipment for all geospatial events, over all geospatial geometries, for all potential scenarios becomes extremely expensive in terms of computational power, time, and efficiency.

This process, then, only becomes more complicated and expensive when data must be processed for multiple farms or agricultural retail operations.

Not only is the current process computationally expensive and inefficient, but the tools and skills required to the complete the analysis are often numerous.

With the increasing complexity in farm management situations and as the amount of data and potential scenarios increase, it can make these tools very time consuming to use.

Due to this, it could potentially leave these operators, managers, and / or owners at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to making decisions with the data.

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