The role of mechatronics in crop product traceability

Agricultural machinery is becoming more and more intelligent. Location detection with GPS (Galileo after 2008), standardised electronic communication based on LBS / ISOBUS and a high number of different sensors will become basic components. Precision Farming seems to be the farming strategy and practise of the future. Product traceability needs information gathering, processing, integration into the farm management and supply to/from the trade. Within mobile agricultural equipment GPS and the standardised communication by ISO 11783 opens the best possibilities for traceability. Sensors available today sense a wide variety of process parameters. There is a big demand for the detection of product quality, ingredients and parameters defined by the consumers. Traceability exceeds existing security concepts. Manual input allows manipulation. Automation may be the adequate answer.     «

Agricultural machinery is becoming more and more intelligent. Location detection with GPS (Galileo after 2008), standardised electronic communication based on LBS / ISOBUS and a high number of different sensors will become basic components. Precision Farming seems to be the farming strategy and practise of the future. Product traceability needs information gathering, processing, integration into the farm management and supply to/from the trade. Within mobile agricultural equipment GPS...     »