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Teltonika Bluetooth EYE Sensor

overview

To meet the growing demand for agricultural products and overcome the numerous challenges in agriculture, today's farmers need to be more innovative, efficient and competitive while saving resources. Comprehensive, affordable and customizable solutions for tracking agricultural machinery combined with process monitoring and automation are therefore becoming not only an attractive option but rather a necessity.

Characteristics

• SENSORS - Accelerometer, temperature sensor, humidity sensor and magnetometer for numerous scenarios
• DATA PROTOCOLS - Eddystone, iBeacon and custom protocols to make it suitable for the applications you need
• LONG LIFE - A battery life of up to 10 years reduces financial and environmental costs
• WATERPROOF HOUSING - Robust and waterproof IP67 housing that increases durability
• MOBILE APPLICATION - Android and iOS compatible apps for quick and easy configuration on the go
• SMART DESIGN - Compact size and mounting points make it an all-rounder suitable for various applications

Challenge

The world population is growing by about 83 million people every year. To understand the magnitude of this process, consider this: the population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.8 billion in 2020. So agriculture is vital to our existence and needs to find a way to do the best it can with the least amount of time and effort.

Agriculture is affected by many factors - weather and climate change, economic, environmental and political factors, demand and supply issues. One of the biggest challenges in large-scale agriculture - agricultural machinery types such as tillage, planting, harvesting/gleaning and any industry-specific equipment or accessories attached for a specific purpose - is managing and automating tracking efficiently. The traditional paper records and/or printed maps they have used for many years are neither practical nor do they meet today's farming needs and practices.

And when farmers have a bad year because agricultural problems have resulted in a poor harvest and significant financial losses, many people in the country or region are affected, and these effects can even last for years. Did you know that according to the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report, the proportion of food loss and waste in North America and Europe in 2019 was over 15% and in Central and South Asia over 20%? How can farmers today tackle this challenge of efficient machine tracking and management once and for all with minimal effort and maximum results?

Solution

Thanks to the rapidly developing IoT technologies, tracking and management of agriculture-specific equipment, implements and/or accessories can be successfully performed by combining GPS devices, CAN bus data adapters and Bluetooth Low Energy 4.X (BLE) ID beacons. The ultimate choice for this matter - Teltonika ADVANCED category GPS tracker FMB140 with built-in CAN data reading function and advanced software version supporting agricultural vehicles (aka ALL-CAN300 option).

ID beacons are small radio transmitters that broadcast their unique identification signal over a wireless Bluetooth connection, which is characterized by low cost, high energy efficiency, accuracy and low interference. Beacons are easy to install, deploy, integrate into the existing ecosystem and quickly replaceable in case of breakage or theft. They can be configured precisely to customer needs, the signal strength and data transmission intervals are easily integrated into virtually any size and shape of environment. Teltonika GPS trackers support up to 100 beacons simultaneously and each of them, depending on the model, operates for 5 to 20 years on a single battery and transmits signals up to 500 m range.

Here's how it works: BLE ID beacons had to be attached to various non-motorized agricultural equipment, farm machinery, implements and accessories to be monitored and detected. Thanks to the wireless communication principle, the installation process is effortless, fast and cost-effective.

At the same time, the Teltonika FMB140 trackers should be mounted on agricultural vehicles such as tractors, combines, loaders, round balers, farm utility vehicles, off-road vehicles, etc. Each ID beacon sends a unique signal and GPS devices read and identify them all. Then the FMB140 sends this data along with the GNSS location information to a server for analysis.

Special software determines the location of all beacons (and hence of the marked agricultural equipment) based on the proximity to the nearest Teltonika tracker attached to an agricultural vehicle. Conveniently, there is no need to log in, authenticate or do anything else - all tracking and recording is performed automatically in real time and is accessible to farmers 24/7/365 via any modern device with Internet access.

This allows them to know exactly what work has been done on which fields and plan their further actions accordingly, making it a comprehensive and indispensable choice. The old-fashioned "pen and paper" methods, which are notoriously inconvenient, impractical and error-prone, are a thing of the past. To bring even more benefits and advantages to farms, the use of Bluetooth ID beacons can be successfully extended to many indoor tracking solutions in warehouses, farmhouses, barns, mills, dairy buildings, etc.

The FMB140 model, like any Teltonika GPS tracking device, offers numerous additional features that are just as useful as live tracking, such as eco-driving, interference detection, excessive idling detection, immobilizer, towing detection, accident detection, automatic/manual geofence, trip, tracker configuration and remote firmware update via FOTA WEB tool.

For example, geofences are virtual boundaries that a farmer can draw on a digital map in a dedicated software application that is used for location-based events and various alarms. This handy feature can be used to set up events and receive notifications when a farm vehicle or implement enters or leaves a pre-determined area. In addition, zones can also be set up around farm fields, warehouses, key locations, security areas, etc.

Remember, ID beacons also enable tracking and simplifying the authentication solution for drivers. If authentication fails, the vehicle's ignition will remain off to prevent unwanted actions. Overall, this makes for automated, hassle-free time, location and action tracking, monitoring and management of fleet drivers.

Wireless external fuel/fluid level sensors (also called FLS or LLS) can be used to measure the current volume of fuel and its changes in a fuel tank. They are used as part of a vehicle telematics system and provide accurate data to measure the remaining fluid level, fuel tank level and drain volume. They also help a farm fleet to remain responsible and economical and prevent fuel theft from the tanks of motorized farm machinery. Wireless communication eliminates the risk of cable vandalism and greatly simplifies the installation process.

Thanks to the combination of fault detection, immobilizer, unplugging detection and towing detection, the safety of drivers and agricultural vehicles is significantly increased. In addition, farmers can realize automatic identification of drivers and measurement of working hours using 1-Wire technology, vehicle-mounted GPS trackers and related accessories.

The integrated CAN bus data adapter reads over 100 parameters to ensure timely maintenance schedules and fleet services, providing highly efficient, comprehensive and automated management that helps save fuel and time, avoid downtime and avoid higher operating costs and overheads. All of this contributes to the ultimate goal that every farmer strives for - increasing productivity and yield with a minimum of effort.