Better compatibility in ag machinery electronics is coming
Posted on April 16, 2009
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The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) is sponsoring a “Plugfest” at the Nebraska Tractor Test Lab on the Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus, May 19-20.
The Nebraska Tractor Test Lab is in the process of becoming the North American certification facility for ISOBUS standards.
The event is not usually open to the public, but an informal special briefing for the media is scheduled for 11:00 am, Tuesday, May 19.
The event will feature engineers from a variety of agricultural equipment companies with some of their ISOBUS electronic terminals and controls.
The event is called a Plugfest because the engineers experiment by plugging their equipment into other companies’ equipment to make sure they’re compatible; the goal is to fine-tune the industry standard that assures different companies’ devices work together.
The ISOBUS is the common term for the international standard ISO 11783, which deals with communication interfaces on tractors and other ag equipment.
Manufacturers agreed to implement this standard in 2001 to assure their products would “communicate” with each other, eliminating the need for separate controls, terminals and displays.
Under ISOBUS, tractors may ultimately have one monitor instead of multiple devices to control sprayers, spreaders and other implements.
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