Equipment architecture for high definition data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9641962-B2
Application number	US-201514887589-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2015
Priority date	Jun 16, 2014
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

Sensor information is received from a set of sensors. First and second sets of machine monitoring data are generated from the sensor information. The first set of machine monitoring data is sent to a control system with a display in an operator compartment of a mobile machine. The second set of machine monitoring data is sent to a processing system that is separate from the control system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving, at a first agricultural machine, over a controller area network (CAN) bus, sensor data indicative of data sensed by a set of agricultural sensors;
storing the sensor data on a data store on the first agricultural machine;
transmitting the sensor data from the data store to a mobile device using a near-field communication link; and
transmitting the sensor data, from the mobile device, to a cloud-based remote system, using a cellular communication component.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the near-field communication link is a Bluetooth communication link.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 and further comprising:
generating a visualization of the sensor data on the mobile device; and
controlling a user interface component to display the visualization on the mobile device.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 wherein transmitting the sensor data from the mobile device to a remote system comprises:
transmitting the sensor data from the mobile device to a cloud-based remote system using the second communication link.

5. A first agricultural machine, comprising:
a data processing system configured to receive, over a controller area network (CAN) bus, sensor data indicative of data sensed by a set of agricultural sensors;
a data store that stores the sensor data;
a near field communication component that transmits the sensor data from the data store to a mobile device over a near field communication link; and
a cellular communication component, the mobile device being configured to transmit the sensor data from the mobile device to a cloud-based remote system using the cellular communication component.

6. The first agricultural machine of claim 5 , wherein the set of agricultural sensors are deployed on a second agricultural machine.

7. The first agricultural machine of claim 5 wherein the near field communication component comprises:
a Bluetooth communication component.

8. The first agricultural machine of claim 5 wherein the mobile device comprises:
a tablet computer.

9. The first agricultural machine or claim 7 wherein the mobile device is configured to generate a visualization of the sensor data, and further comprising:
a user interface component configured to display the visualization on the mobile device.

10. An agricultural machine, comprising:
a data processing system configured to receive, over a controller area network (CAN) bus, sensor data indicative of data sensed by a set of agricultural sensors;
a data store that stores the sensor data;
a near field communication component that transmits the sensor data from the data store to a tablet computer over a Bluetooth communication link; and
a cellular communication component, the tablet computer being configured to transmit the sensor data from the tablet computer to a cloud-based remote system using the cellular communication component.

11. The agricultural machine of claim 10 and further comprising:
a user interface component configured to surface a visualization of the sensor data on the tablet computer.

Assignees

• Deere & Co

Inventors

• Kilworth Timothy J
• Pilarczyk Scott
• Walter Jason D
• Roszhart Tim
• Rains Gerald E
• Smith Brent A
• Mahrt Sean
• Sachs James Lawrence
• Smart David C

Classifications

• G05B2219/45017

  Agriculture machine, tractor · CPC title

• G06Q50/02

  Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining · CPC title

• G06F11/3089

  Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in sensing the monitored data, e.g. interfaces, connectors, sensors, probes, agents (software debugging using additional hardware using a specific debug interface G06F11/3656; performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring G06F11/3466) · CPC title

• G05B2219/45106

  Used in agriculture, tree trimmer, pruner · CPC title

• G05B2219/23135

  Display to console, panel which sends parameters, commands · CPC title