Method for remote monitoring equipment for an agricultural machine
First Claim
1. A method of providing information from a fleet of mobile agricultural machines capable of moving to a plurality of locations for purposes of permitting a manager of the fleet to make management decisions pertaining to the fleet, comprising, monitoring functional operational data from individual mobile agricultural machines in the fleet, conveying the monitored data to a remote server, converting the monitored data into a first summary group comprised of past historical data, and into a second snapshot group pertaining to current existing operational data, and transmitting to the fleet manager at least one of the groups of data.
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Abstract
A method of providing information from a plurality of fleet machines located at a plurality of locations for purposes of permitting a manager of fleet equipment to make management decisions pertaining to a fleet comprised of such equipment, monitoring functional operational data from individual machines in a fleet of machines, conveying the monitored data to a remote server, converting the monitored data into a first group pertaining to current existing operational data, and into a second group comprised of past historical data, and transmitting by wireless means to a person having responsibility for the fleet information at least one of the groups of data.
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24 Claims
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1. A method of providing information from a fleet of mobile agricultural machines capable of moving to a plurality of locations for purposes of permitting a manager of the fleet to make management decisions pertaining to the fleet, comprising,
monitoring functional operational data from individual mobile agricultural machines in the fleet, conveying the monitored data to a remote server, converting the monitored data into a first summary group comprised of past historical data, and into a second snapshot group pertaining to current existing operational data, and transmitting to the fleet manager at least one of the groups of data.
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16. A method of providing information from a plurality of mobile agricultural machines located at a plurality of locations for purposes of permitting a manager of the plurality of mobile agricultural machines to make management decisions pertaining to the plurality of mobile agricultural machines comprising the steps of:
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providing an information retrievable system including a customer service application and a data server;
requesting a configuration selection from the customer service application; and
triggering at least one machine of the plurality of mobile agricultural machines to cause information to be passed to the data server based on the configuration selection to create a configuration file. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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21. A system for remotely monitoring one or more mobile agricultural machines in a fleet of mobile agricultural machines, the system comprising:
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a communications computer on each mobile agricultural machine;
at least one controller on each mobile agricultural machine connected to at least one sensor for monitoring functional information on the mobile agricultural machine;
at least one data bus between the communications computer and the at least one controller for transmitting functional information to the communications computer;
a remote central information server capable of communicating with the communications computers on the fleet of mobile agricultural machines, the remote information server capable of accepting functional information from the communications computers on the fleet of mobile machines; and
a data server connected to the remote central information server for accepting functional information from the central information server, processing the functional information received, generating a report of current operational data and a summary of past historical data, the data server capable of identifying any functional information that is predetermined to be an emergency condition, the data server automatically generating and sending an email containing the emergency condition information to at least one email address. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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