The TRAKTnet.one project of the Free University of Bolzano aims to identify and develop new solutions to remotely monitor the efficiency of farm-tractors engines included
in a local voluntary network all along their lifespan. 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 gases’ temperature and
oxygen content (as indexes indirectly estimating consumption and efficiency) and then
analysing and inferring the data through procedures, which algorithms will be an integral
part of the project’s results. This implies the existence of a service centre controlling
all farm machines and managing a Farm-Information-Systems network through
simple logical connections according to a client-server approach.
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.
