Remote Combine Harvester Control Interface for Multi-Machine Performance Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for monitoring and controlling combine harvesters lack real-time performance metrics and control interfaces for remote managers, making it difficult to compare and adjust settings across multiple machines, leading to inefficiencies and delayed data access.
Innovation Solution
A remote user device communicates with combine harvesters to receive performance metrics, generating display elements for performance criteria and allowing remote control operations, enabling real-time comparison and adjustment of settings across multiple machines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If current monitoring systems are used for combine harvesters, then some operational characteristics can be sensed and made available to reviewing personnel, but the systems are only informational in nature and lack real-time control capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
A remote system acts as an intermediary between multiple combine harvesters and the remote user device. This intermediary collects performance metrics from sensors on combine harvesters, processes the data, and transmits it to the remote user device, enabling real-time monitoring and control capabilities while reducing direct communication bandwidth requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The combine harvesters are equipped with onboard sensors and control systems that automatically collect and transmit their own performance metrics without requiring manual intervention. The systems self-monitor operational characteristics and automatically make control adjustments based on remote commands, eliminating the need for operators to manually record or adjust settings
2Ease of operation
If manual adjustment and control inputs are required for each combine harvester setting, then the operator can control various mechanisms, but it becomes difficult to know how a particular operator or machine is performing
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where performance metrics from sensors on combine harvesters are transmitted to the remote system, processed, and displayed on the remote user device. This feedback mechanism provides real-time information about operator performance and machine status, enabling comparison across multiple combine harvesters while maintaining full control capability
Solution Approach 2:
The remote system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it monitors performance metrics, compares data across multiple combine harvesters, provides control interfaces for remote adjustment, and transmits commands back to the machines. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems into a single integrated platform
3Productivity
If performance metrics are collected from multiple combine harvesters, then comparison and optimization become possible, but bandwidth consumption and delay times increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments performance metrics into different categories and prioritizes data transmission accordingly. Critical control data is transmitted with higher priority and lower latency, while informational metrics are aggregated and transmitted less frequently. This segmentation reduces overall bandwidth consumption while maintaining the ability to optimize performance based on real-time data
Data Source
AI summary
A user device, that is remote from a combine harvester, communicates with a remote system to receive performance metrics corresponding to sensed operation of a plurality of different combine harvesters. A performance display element, for each machine, and for each of a plurality of different performance criteria, is generated. Display control logic controls a display device so the performance display elements are displayed with display elements corresponding to a same performance criteria, but for different combine harvesters, being displayed adjacent one another, on the display device. The display control logic also controls the display device so the performance machine display elements for the plurality of different combine harvesters are also displayed along with a performance distribution display element that represents a performance distribution of a plurality of different machines.