During the mid-term SENTRAC demo last week, signals as fuel consumption and vehicle speed were automatically measured from sensors of a tractor and made available for precision agriculture to enrich the soil map of agricultural land.
The first concrete step towards combining sensor data from agricultural vehicles with soil scans, GPS data and plot sizes, creating a better understanding of the production potential and yields of the plot, is a reality.
The SENTRAC project that focuses on precision farming, is a collaboration between Beijer Automotive, Van den Borne Aardappelen and Fleuren Boomkwekerij.
Sensor Data from agricultural vehicles are now automatically measured during the work on the plot and sent to the Vetuda platform of Beijer Automotive. These data are then combined with other data from the digital farm of Van den Borne so as to carry out smarter bottom scans.
An interesting (Dutch) article about precision agriculture can be found on the website duurzaambedrijfsleven.nl.
This project takes place within the framework of the subsidy scheme MKB innovatiestimulering Topsectoren Zuid-Nederland 2015 (MIT Zuid), co-financed by the province of Noord-Brabant.
