The TRAKTnet.one project aims to identify and develop new solutions
to remotely monitor the efficiency of farm-tractors engines
included in a local voluntary network. The knowledge of tractors’ efficiency
can give important information concerning machines’ consumption,
emissions and need for servicing, thus contributing to a
more environmentally-sustainable agriculture. Engines will be monitored
by measuring rpms, exhaust gas temperature and oxygen content
(through lambda sensors) and then analysing and inferring the
data through procedures, which algorithms will be an integral part of
the project’s results.
Trials will be performed on different engines and at different
speeds/loads. The choice of the thermocouple type and installation
point must be done carefully for not influencing sensitivity and
response time. The final outcome of the project is expected to be an
automatic system, based on an inference software-engine able to correctly
interpreting the sensors outputs. The advantage of this proposal
is to exploit a farm monitoring network, previously designed for managing
the information related to the automatic compilation of records
in the country, by simply equipping data loggers with two additional
sensors.
