Security researchers from TrendMicro and the Technical University of Milano explain in a blog post “The Crisis of Connected Cars: When Vulnerabilities Affect the CAN… Read More »CAN Standard Helps Attackers to Switch Off Brakes, Steering and Engine
Farmpilot is a software to help farmers and contract farmers with their daily logistic tasks. It helps with planning at which location drivers and vehicles… Read More »Farmpilot Could Have a Bright Future
Grimme moves the HMI for changing the nominal values of the 80 most important harvesting parameters from the driver terminal(s) to an extra piece of… Read More »Grimme ErgoDrive: Probably Not That Ergonomic
Ten years after the iPhone and several years after its competitors like John Deere and AGCO, CLAAS announces that its CEBIS terminals will sport a… Read More »CLAAS Announces Touch Displays for Agricultural Machines
The University of Osnabrück invited me to give a talk about “HMIs of Agricultural Machines for 2016” at their COALA Symposium “Assistance Systems and Human-Machine Communication in Agricultural Engineering on October 30, 2014. Here is the abstract of the talk.
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Agricultural OEM Krone bets on Qt software library for development of their terminal / First prototype read in less than three months
Big X 480 in maize harvest
585 horsepower, 15.6 litres engine displacement and an up to 9 metre wide cutterhead – forage harvesters are among the most powerful agricultural machines. It takes a lot more technology and know-how to drive such a vehicle than a car. The driver terminal of a forage harvester must process information from more than 30 components like motor, cutterhead, metal detector or grinder within tenths of a second. The terminal additionally provides a diagnosis system. The agricultural OEM Krone from Lower Saxony has built all these functions into the touch-screen terminal of its forage harvester Big X 480/580. The HMI software of the terminal was developed with the GUI and application library Qt.
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When roaming the halls of Embedded World 2014, I stumbled over two agricultural tidbits: one about Fendt and one about Agrifac. Read More »Two Agricultural Tidbits from Embedded World 2014
At this year’s Agritechnica, I had a close look at the HMIs of the tractors and self-propelled harvesters of CLAAS, AGCO (Fendt and Massey Ferguson), John Deere, New Holland and some others. My focus was on the UI software running on driver and auxiliary terminals. I think that these HMIs have a lot of catching up to do with respect to in-vehicle-infotainment systems and even more with modern smartphones. Here is my detailed report. Read More »HMI Trends from Agritechnica 2013