KRONE Digital

Agriculture 4.0 harbours enormous potential. Width section-specificmanagement based on simplified planning and networking solutions allow more efficient management with optimal environmental protection.
The ISOBUS standard has substantially helped communications between different brands of machines. However,the exchange of data between agricultural machinery and software products of various vendors has to date often been an insurmountable problem. Given the lack of a shared standard, hardly any progress was made in this area. The agrirouter is designed to overcome this hurdle and allow all farmers to participate in the digitalisation of agriculture. KRONE and other manufacturers of agricultural technology have combined their forces to develop the agrirouter in order to substantially reduce data conversion problems and the number of communication interfaces in agricultural technology.

Farmer's benefit
Due to the high degree of compatibility in data exchange, farmers benefit from the ability to use optimising solutions from a wide range of vendors, which increases their efficiency in value creation, reduces costs and protects the environment. Farmers will additionally future-proof their businesses in terms of legal requirements regarding food safety, burdens of proof and checks.

Openness and transparency
The data hub and its interfaces are open to all manufacturers of agricultural technology and app developers. With this strategic reorientation from numerous stand-alone solutions towards a shared, universally usable solution, the initiators want to promote wide acceptance. Participants only need to ensure that data can be exchanged with a data interface.

Costs
Users ultimately only pay for mobile data transfers between the hub and agricultural machinery plus the purchase costs of communication units, in addition to any charges for the apps they use individually. The communication unit KRONE SmartConnect must be installed on BiG Pack, BiG X and BiG M. The use of the not-for-profit data hub itself is free of charge. Relevant costs for developing and maintaining the hub are borne by the partners in the consortium.

Data security
The data is owned by those sending and using it, which are is farmers and contract farmers. When they log in to their hub via their PCs, tablets or smartphones, they determine who is permitted to exchange data with whom to what extent and over which period. GPS information as well as data on yields and fuel consumption are only buffered on the server for a maximum of four weeks and must be accessed by the respective recipient (for example the field database) within this period. Data is not stored.

Our approach is carried by a consortium of well-known manufacturers of agricultural technology, who have jointly recognized that Farming 4.0 only works if a cross-manufacturer and cross-product data exchange is possible. The consortium is open to further members.

The DKE founding members:
Krone, AGCO, Amazone, Grimme, Horsch, Kuhn, Lemken, Pöttinger, Rauch, SDF

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