Technical and Technological Parameters of ISOBUS System Supported Machinery Management

Abstract

ISO organization in early 90s defined an industry standard for the communication protocol among electronic devices of different manufacturers of agricultural machines. After that, all of the market actors recognised that this technology would be very important for agricultural electronics. The appearance of ISOBUS products in the market was in the mid-2000s. ISOBUS description could be found in ISO-11783. It is a very complex and large electronics protocol standard based on CAN and SAE-J1939 standards, extended for the Agricultural Industry. The standard consists of 14 different parts and more than thousands of specification pages. Through the standards and the related technical background, the production processes and the operations could be followed and monitored by the extensive Data Management. Farmers' and users legitimate needs and developing goal is to elaborate a decision support systems that follow-up the utilisation of the machines and ensure the quality of operations. For this purpose, it is essential to determine which technical, economical, technological parameters, detection, measurement, transmission, processing, and evaluation becomes necessary. In our work, we reviewed which mechanical characteristics, settings are monitored within the ISOBUS system by the major machine manufacturers. We developed the system of parameters and derived features that provide effective farm-, and land-management in case of attached equipment for spreading of input materials and tillage implements.