We have been monitoring a fleet of more than 20 agricultural machineries (i.e. tractors, combine and forage harvesters) equipped with CANBUS/ISOBUS technologies for years. All the machinery developed in the last 10 years are equipped with several sensors which can be used for automatically monitoring all the input (i.e., fertilizers, seeds, agrochemicals) and the output (i.e., yield) applied in fields where fully mechanized crops are grown (i.e., corn, wheat, barley) and the traffic of machinery on soils. This can be easily carried out on even on large field areas. We have developed proper algorithms to automatically classify data in function of the field, crop, soil rotations, etc. This permits us to make analysis on several types of soil treatments and to identify any mispractice of farmers. Moreover, we have a strong knowledge of the evaluation of soil compaction induced by machinery traffic. We are also quite active in divulgation activities with the major Italian magazines on agricultural machinery.
precision agriculture, data mining, digitalization, circular economy, agrosystem efficiency, energy, greenhouse gas emissions, smart agriculture, IoT.
