GPS autoguiding at the service of precision agriculture

Optimize passages by limiting overlaps

It is concretely and initially a question of taking advantage of the GPS autoguiding in order to optimize the operations of tillage, sowing, spreading and harvesting by minimizing the overlaps between passages allowing thereby to optimize machine time, fuel consumption, tool wear and payroll.

Work in all visibility conditions

Possibility to work from day to night, in foggy weather etc. by focusing his attention on the GPS guidance tool and no longer on driving for an always impeccable result.

Full GNSS to work in difficult areas

In wooded areas or bordered by buildings, some satellites may be obscured and therefore unusable by the equipment on the ground to establish a correct position. With Galileo and Beidou in addition to GPS and Glonass, Full GNSS allows you to have a maximum of satellites and thus be able to continue working.

Work on the board

The coupling and the width of the tools becoming more and more important to the detriment of the maneuverability of the coupling at the end of the row, a precise positioning in time, that is to say without drift allows to work in plank by minimizing as many tedious maneuvers as possible.

Breaking Sections and Breaking Sections

The assistance of the Orphéon RTK network to manage section cut-offs also brings comfort to the driver, and more particularly when visibility is reduced (for example, at night). Automatic management of section cut-offs becomes possible on your sprayer, solid fertilizer spreader, cereal seeder or single-grain seeder. In this way, recrossing as well as distribution outside the limits of the field becomes possible, allowing substantial savings. It is then possible to apply the product in the best conditions (good humidity) while avoiding waste by excessive covering of spreading.

Dose modulation

Orphéon RTK precision positioning allows the right dose to be applied in the right place taking into account the heterogeneity of the field for even greater savings. The automatic modulation of seeds, fertilizers and phytosanitary products becomes possible by using recommendation maps (yield maps, soil analysis, FARMSTAR) or on-board sensors (YARA type for example), but also thanks to the recommendations of experts cooperatives.

Seeding modulation

An economic gain of 50 to 100€ per hectare

The tests carried out in 2017 are based on the results of two years of trials in the Haut-Rhin of variations in the density of maize seedlings alone, carried out with two varieties in four types of soil. While saving seeds, this solution also allowed the optimization of yield. The gain per hectare varies from 50 to 100€. On irrigated areas, the benefit of modulation was identical to within €2/ha in 2015, as in 2016, while the climate of these two years was very different. The real economic potential of modulation is undoubtedly even higher if other parameters such as nitrogen fertilization, irrigation, possible variations in treatments and choice of varieties are taken into account.

Reintervene on the row

Precision positioning allows you to intervene again on the row while preserving your plans, for new cultural practices such as strip-till or weeding. The localization of fertilizers is then possible.

Manage treads

In the same vein, being able to “always drive in the same place” helps control soil compaction and allows plants to take root better and the soil to better absorb inputs by limiting runoff phenomena.

Set up end-of-row automation

End-of-row automation becomes possible, such as automatic U-turn coupled with the lifting of certain trailed tools such as seed drills or certain very specific controls of the tools used (stopping the discs of a fertilizer spreader in headland areas, etc. .).

Perfect control of the tasks carried out

Accurate documentation of the work carried out (what dose where and when) becomes possible, particularly in an increasingly restrictive regulatory context as well as in the context of work carried out as services so as to invoice the customer for the work carried out.

These technical-economic approaches are supplemented by more suggestive but very important notions such as the comfort of the driver, the quality of work as well as the best respect for the environment.

The objectives are clear:

• • • • Reduce hardship
      • Have repetitive or complementary tasks carried out
      • Realize new practices
      • Focus on your most rewarding and productive tasks
      • Reduce musculoskeletal disorders
      • Improve your working and living comfort
      • Have reliable support for your decision-making
      • Have information about your activity and a history
      • Strengthen your expertise and knowledge
      • Reduce chemical inputs
      • Conserve resources
      • Meet your traceability obligations
      • Control and reduce some of your operating costs