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Smart automation smart farming: the challenges of Digitalization and Big Data from the John Deere Perspective

Christophe Gossard, Strategic Standards Manager for Europe

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Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen, This is a pleasure for me today to talk about what John Deere is trying to achieve in the Internet of Thing environment. John Deere is not part of the ICT industry but I would say that John Deere is an integrator of the solutions provided by various technologies on the market today. Our company has in the fields for more than 15 years autonomous vehicles and can be considered as the largest operator of autonomous vehicles in the world.

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• Challenges for Agriculture

• The Journey of Integrated Solutions

• How did we succeed?

• Cloud-based Connectivity / Farming 4.0

• Summary

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I am not here to make a marketing presentation and I will try to explain how John Deere has addressed the challenges for agriculture. I will explain that before reaching such results that this is a journey through Integrated Solutions where adoption was slow at the beginning but where we see some ramp up now How did we succeed to make it happen? Outr approach for IoT on Agriculture is based on Cloud-based connectivity or as we could call it in Germany Farming 4.0

Challenges for Agriculture


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« Without nature, no future » says Nicolas Hulot and we might say that « without digitization of the agriculture, not enough food for the future »

Challenges for Farming Industry

Limited Ressources Land Water Nutrients People

Population Growth Diet

Digitalization (Smart Farming)


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Earth is our home and we have limited resources, and if we look at in details some important parameters for the agriculture are at risk when we have some paradigme changes: population growth and diet. Etc…

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Guiding Principles for AgriculturalTechnology

More with less

Independence

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„Produce more with less“ is CEMA guiding – dedicated to short and mid term. In the long run and precisely speaking to resources such as phosphorus, chemicals, fertilizer, fuel/energy, must not come from limited (mainly fossil) resources to achieve sustainable food security. We need to optimize and produce more with less, and for such, we need to identify what are the megatrends in the agriculture technologies.

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• Sustainability

• Automation andautonomous operation

• Reliability

Agricultural Technologies Megatrends?


Digitalization / Smart Farming

Use of modern automation and information technology to increase the productivity and efficiency of modern farming in a sustainable way with minimal impact on the environment


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So what do we mean when we say precision farming? Precision Farming is the use of modern automation and information technology………..

The Journey of Integrated Solutions


1.Product

2. Smart Product

3. Smart, Connected Product

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The Journey of Integrated Solutions

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1.Product

2. Smart Product

3. Smart, Connected Product

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4. Product System

5. System of Systems

Farming4.0


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In the Ag sector, we have big challenges: one of them is that by 2050 we will have to feed 9.7 billions people on earth. I would start first to stress that Global Position Systems and advancements in Ag Electronics have enabled significant Productivity growth in Agriculture.� Automatic Machine Guidance: + 10-15% Sprayer Section control: + 5% Automated Machine Adjustment/Control: +3-5%� In this environment, we are looking forward to determine: What do customers really need and are they willing to pay for? What innovative technologies and solutions are becoming available? Indeed, Telematics and Data Management are increasingly relevant, but to make things happen, the stake holders of the industry have to start a journey through integrated solutions. And this journey is possible only if we have the proper eco-system available to connect and transfer all these data generated by agricultural equipment.

Telemetry as Basis forSmart Digital Farming


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The telemetry will be used as the basis for smart digital farming in this environment! Samples, monitors and sensors, images, … for example: soil moisture color of growing plants weather water nutrient management app of crop protection The lack of interoperability between all the stakeholders will not help to improve the adoption rate for the smart farming. The European commission is going to put some pressure on the manufacturers, and the market of the Ag equipment won’t increase if there is no standard to access these data. We have to face new requirements and these new requirements have to be translated into new guidelines, standards based on new use cases. The European commission is requesting to explain the standards used at the level of the architecture of the tractor and to make these standards evolve. As I said, the final goal is to have a system of the systems where the farmer will see the pay-off of his investments.

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• Sustainability


• Reliability

• Electrification?



Why Electrification?

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John Deere High-power electrictractor (SESAM)

• Efficiency

• Controllability and dynamic response behaviour

• Using Renewable Energy

Smart Automation Smart Farming IEEE C. Gossard | | - May 2017

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John Deere has unveiled its first electric high-power tractor ahead of the upcoming SIMA agriculture show in France. Built on the chassis of Deere’s 6R tractors, the SESAM (Sustainable Energy Supply for Agricultural Machinery) prototype features a set of 130kW lithium-ion batteries which power two independent 150 kW electric motors, producing the equivalent of roughly 400 horsepower. The company says a full battery charge lasts for about four hours of normal use and require three hours of charging time. The lifespan of the battery is approximately 3100 charge cycles. When stationary, there’s no energy loss, and it produces no emissions while operating, a key element of John Deere’s vision of the farm of the future, energy-autonomous.” The SESAM tractor received a “special mention” in the 2017 SIMA Innovation Awards.

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• Sustainability


• Reliability

• Electrification

• Internet of(almost every)thing(s)and services



How did we succeed?


Cloud &

External “Sensor” Systems

Systems

E/FRP

MES (AES)

Process Control System

Controller Level

Sensor / Actor Level

Adaptive Agricultural Production Systems providing• technical intelligence (such as self optimisation)• self reconfiguration• defect compensation / zero defect operation

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E/FRP

MES (AES)

Process Control System

Controller Level

Sensor / Actor Level

Workshop level

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Guided by the Workflow or process management concept We don‘t want a GPS signal to steer the tractor or a implement control the tractor. We want the process to steer the work! Optimization beyond a single work unit but the entire process SMART MANUFACTURING BUS or IBM: SMART INTEGRATION BUS /// Data Analytics

Dispatcher is informed about approaching thunderstorm and can trigger new optimization criteria

Vehicles “order” fuel spare parts, transfer trailers

Central system calculates routing on field and road.

Source: Hahn (modified)

Development of Farm Management System


Operation CenterUser Interfaces

Farmer / Contractor

Messages, proposes execution plans Adjust & select new plans

Farm Management System Services in the Cloud

Service 1 Service 2 Service 3 …

External orDistributed

Services

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Current framework for IoT as a standardization point of view

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• There are already more than 600 closely related standards in the IoT area

• It is essential to first clearly map all relevant standards to help manufacturers of agriculture equipment and innovators and standard setters navigate this complexity

⇒The agriculture sector has already done this effort


Home/Building Manufacturing/

Industry AutomationVehicular/

Transportation

Horizontal/Telecommunication

Open Automotive Alliance

Healthcare Energy WearablesFarming/AgrifoodCities

IoT SDOs and Alliances Landscape (Vertical and Horizontal Domains)

AIOTI AIOTI AIOTI AIOTI AIOTI

AIOTI

AIOTI AIOTIAIOTI

Source: AIOTI WG3 (IoT Standardisation) – Release 2.5

NB-IoTForum

Open ConnectivityFoundation


http://www.aioti.eu/default.html









AEF – Standardized Vehicle Communication Interface

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http://www.aef-online.org


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The content of AEF developments will be integrated into the ISO standard definition. The wireless communication team is working on it. The goal is to define a common software library. AEF will not have its own gateway. AEF isdeveloping standard for this gateway. Security libray will be integrated into different ECUs of the OEMs in some years to come.

http://www.aef-online.org/

Example of inter-connectivity

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Cloud-based Connectivity

Farming 4.0


Cloud-based Connectivity

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7050, 7080 Forage Harvesters

R4030, R4038 4630 ,4730, 48304940 Sprayers

8030 & 8R/RT Tractors

9030 & 9R/RT Tractors

John Deere Operations Center

7760 Cotton Picker

W235 Windrower

7030 & 7R Tractors

6030 & 6R Tractors

S, T, W Series Combines

MTG in base machine since 2012 > 100.000 Ag machines with

cellular modem


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Modular Telematics Gateway – JD is not a telecommunication company but a user of the telecommunication means. But when it comes to safety and security. This is what happened

MyJohnDeere Operation Center


Cloud-based Connectivity Through API Standardization

Seed

Chemicals

Weather

Consultants

Food

Processors

Food Retailers


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Precision farming mottos for John Deere

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• Precision Farming and, in particular, Smart Farming, requires compelling multidisciplinary cooperation between different disciplines

• John Deere will be a successful player in Precision Farming-based agricultural production systems in the future

• Precision Farming not only contributes to efficiency and efficiency, but also to increasing social acceptance of agricultural production

• Technology within in precision farming must not be self-sufficient in precision farming, but technical possibilities must be aligned with human needs and heterogeneous process requirements


Summary


Summary• Digitalization in agriculture will play a key role to address the

needs for food of our growing population in a sustainable way

• We are already in the middle of the digitalization of Agricultural machinery

• Safety and security have to be properly addressed• More and more players provide services and offer big data

based prescriptions. This will foster the adoption of smart farming

• Smart Farming can only be successful with cloud-based seamless data exchange and partnering of the companies in the value chain


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The farm industry has big plans for the future, but within the IoT environment, this will take place only if the European commission consider the history, the legacy of each sector. AEF has already a project group M2M, and more than 150 Ag companies behind. Europe has been built and made some progress adapting itself to the history of its members sometimes. Let‘s do the same for the standardization of the IoT environment where safety and security will be at the core of these future developments.

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