AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION SENSING AND RETRIEVAL

• US 20160078391A1
• Filed: 10/28/2015
• Published: 03/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deere & Company
• Original Assignee: Deere & Company
• Inventors: Blank, Sebastian, Pfeiffer, Dohn W.
• Granted Patent: US 10,453,018 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/02 Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining

Abstract

Performance information indicative of operator performance of a mobile machine is detected. Context criteria are identified based on a sensed context of the mobile machine. As set of performance data is parsed to identify reference data, based on the context criteria. A performance opportunity space is identified, by comparing the detected performance information to the reference data. A user interface component is controlled to surface the performance opportunity space for interaction.

Claims

1. An agricultural data retrieval system, comprising:

a context filter system that receives machine context information, indicative of a context of an agricultural machine operated by a first operator, and identifies a first set of operator performance data based on the machine context information, the operator performance data being indicative of operator performance of other operators operating other agricultural machines;

a performance metric filter system that identifies a range of operator performance metric values relative to an operator performance metric value corresponding to the first operator and identifies a second set of operator performance data based on the identified range and based on the first set of operator performance data;

a data retrieval component that retrieves the second set of operator performance data; and

an output component that outputs the second set of operator performance data as a reference data set for comparison against operator performance data for the first operator.

2. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 1 wherein the context filter system comprises:

a filter criteria identifier component that identifies a set of context filter criteria used in identifying the first set of operator performance data.

3. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 2 and further comprising:

a search system that searches a data store for operator performance data that matches the context filter criteria and the score range of operator performance metric values.

4. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 3 and further comprising:

a data store that stores a context filter criteria hierarchy that hierarchically arranges the context filter criteria, the filter criteria identifier identifying the context filter criteria based on the context filter criteria hierarchy.

5. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 4 and further comprising:

a first data volume analysis component that determines whether a volume of data in the first set of operator performance data meets a statistical significance threshold.

6. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 5 wherein the filter criteria identifier component is configured to access the filter criteria hierarchy and change the context filter criteria used in identifying the first set of operator performance data, based on the first data volume analysis component determining that the volume of data does not meet the statistical significance threshold, the data retrieval component retrieving a third set of operator performance data based on the changed context filter criteria.

7. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 4 wherein the performance metric filter system comprises:

a score range identifier component that identifies the range; and

a second data volume analysis component that determines whether a volume of data in the second set of operator performance data meets a statistical significance threshold.

8. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 7 wherein the score range identifier component is configured to change the range used in identifying the second set of operator performance data, based on the second data volume analysis component determining that the volume of data does not meet the statistical significance threshold, the search component identifying a third set of operator performance data based on the changed range.

9. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 1 wherein the data retrieval component retrieves the operator performance data in units comparable to units of the operator performance data for the first operator.

10. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 1 and further comprising:

a set of context sensors that sense the machine context information.

11. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 10 wherein the set of machine context sensors comprise at least one of a geographic location sensor, a machine type sensor, a machine configuration source or a crop sensor.

12. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 1 wherein the performance metric filter system is configured to identify the second set of operator performance data as a subset of the first set of operator performance data.

13. A computer implemented method, comprising:

detecting machine context information, indicative of a context of an agricultural machine operated by a first operator;

identifying a first set of operator performance data based on the machine context information, the operator performance data being indicative of operator performance of other operators operating other agricultural machines;

selecting a range of operator performance metric values relative to an operator performance metric value corresponding to the first operator;

identifying a second set of operator performance data, as a subset of the first set of operator performance data, based on the identified range and based on the first set of operator performance data;

retrieving the second set of operator performance data; and

outputting the second set of operator performance data as a reference data set for comparison against operator performance data for the first operator.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 13 and further comprising:

prior to retrieving the second set of operator performance data, identifying context filter criteria; and

searching a data store for operator performance data that matches the context filter criteria and the range of operator performance metric values.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 14 wherein identifying context filter criteria comprises:

identifying the context filter criteria based on a context filter criteria hierarchy that hierarchically arranges the context filter criteria.

16. The computer implemented method of claim 15 and further comprising:

determining whether a volume of data in the first set of operator performance data meets a statistical significance threshold;

if not, accessing the filter criteria hierarchy and changing the context filter criteria used in identifying the first set of operator performance data; and

retrieving a third set of operator performance data based on the changed context filter criteria.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 16 and further comprising:

determining whether a volume of data in the second set of operator performance data meets a statistical significance threshold; and

if not, changing the range used in identifying the second set of operator performance data; and

identifying a fourth set of operator performance data based on the changed range.

18. The computer implemented method of claim 13 wherein detecting machine context information comprises:

sensing the machine context information as at least one of a geographic location, a machine type, a machine configuration or a crop characteristic.

19. An agricultural data retrieval system, comprising:

a context filter system that receives machine context information, indicative of a context of an agricultural machine operated by a first operator;

a filter criteria identifier component that identifies a set of context filter criteria;

a search system that searches a data store to identify a first set of operator performance data that matches the context filter criteria;

a performance metric filter system that identifies a range of operator performance metric values relative to an operator performance metric value corresponding to the first operator, the search system identifying a subset of the first set of operator performance data based on the identified range;

a data retrieval component that retrieves the subset of operator performance data; and

an output component that outputs the subset of operator performance data as a reference data set for comparison against operator performance data for the first operator.

20. The agricultural data retrieval system of claim 19 and further comprising:

a data volume component that determines whether a volume of data in the subset of operator performance data meets a statistical significance threshold and if not, either changes the range of operator performance metric values or accesses a filter criteria hierarchy that hierarchically arranges the context filter criteria and changes the context filter criteria used in identifying the first set of operator performance data, the search system identifying a third set of operator performance data based on the changed range or context filter criteria.