R-Connect

R-Connect telematics module and remote diagnostics as standard equipment

The ROPA Tiger 6S comes with the efficient telematics hardware including SIM card for online access as standard equipment. The telematics module is thus the basis for proactive Service 4.0 with predictive analytics and fast assistance and diagnostics if service is required on any continent. When service is required, if desired the service technician can switch directly to the terminal and the machine control and assist the driver, e.g. with problem-solving.

R-Connect Monitor is the intelligent, fully automated image documentation during the sugar beet harvest. During harvest and when emptying the bunker, pictures with their assigned location are taken automatically. The images from the optional camera on the cabin roof for monitoring sugar beet crops before harvest and the camera images on the unloading conveyor for quality control of the harvest during bunker emptying are assigned to the harvest order on the R-Connect Portal.

The areas harvested, the yield (number of times the bunker was filled), and the position of the beet clamp can be documented from the sugar beet harvester. A visual record of the beet area before the harvest and also the result of the harvest can therefore be documented.

• Images of the sugar beet crop before harvesting combined with the machine settings and position data
• Monitoring of harvesting for weeds  
• Monitoring of the sugar beet crop for diseases such as rhizoctonia, cercospora, and nematodes
• Optional additional manual image documentation if irregularities make harvest more difficult, e.g. water in the field, foreign bodies, utility poles, overseeding, etc.
• Images during the discharge process for quality control and documentation of the crop
• Documentation of impurities on the ground and weeds in the beet clamp are valuable information for transport logistics with regard to time, suitability of the sugar beets for storage, etc.
• If necessary, contractors and harvesting coops can use the images to argue increased work (harvesting costs) with the contracting farmers
• Much sensor data about speeds, pressures, volume measurements, etc. have much greater validity thanks to the additional display of images for the measurement values!

Since 2018, the first ROPA sugar beet lifters and cleaner-loaders have been sending their data to a cloud. The latest models (Tiger 6S, Panther 2S and Maus 6) even do this as standard. The machines store nearly all sensor data on German services, which means that there are a lot of possibilities, from tracking to order processing. You can read how a practitioner uses the portal in the box on page 108.

While in the beginning, ROPA focused on the management software from farmpilot (profi 2/2018), the company's goals are different today. Due to the variety of platformw within the cultivation, logistics and harvest chain - both locally and globally - ROPA is now forcing an independent system: without agrirouter, on a direct path to the cloud.

GOOD TO KNOW

• In particular, making service work easier and collecting order data are the focal point
• The basis is created, additional developments will follow
• The R-Connect online platform has been expanded to include the myuRopa management level

profi reported about R-Connect for the first time in 2018. On the way to the finished portal, the programmers have learned new things, discarded what they didn't need and developed visions. Here's an update.

We would be happy to provide you with the profi article as a PDF download: Cloud for the sugar beet - online portals myRopa and R-Connect.pdf

We are happy to provide you with the professional article as a pdf download: Beet in the Cloud - MyRopa und R-Connect.pdf