Bosch Launches New Joint Partner Solution for Smart, Digital Agriculture
NEVONEX, powered by Bosch, is offering an open, manufacturer-independent digital ecosystem for agriculture. The various suppliers of agricultural technology, resources, or services along the entire agricultural process chain can offer useful functions and tools for connecting and automating machinery and work processes via the technical infrastructure. Farmers benefit from this overall offer and can select their individual package of digital services.
“With NEVONEX we bring together important players in agriculture with their know-how, making the farmer’s day-today work easier and helping increase yields,” explains Andrew Allen, responsible for Commercial Vehicles and Off-road at Robert Bosch.
Bosch has developed NEVONEX specifically for agricultural applications and will operate the ecosystem. Founding NEVONEX is another important building block in Bosch’s corporate strategy to advance digitization in agriculture.
Currently, there are 11 partners on board who will offer high-quality digital services, interfaces to their agricultural machinery, compatible sensors, NEVONEX-enabled control units and installation services in the U.S. and Canadian market. These are: AGCO (including Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Valtra, and others), Corteva, DKE data agrirouter, DHI, Inmarsat, Pessl Instruments, RAUCH, Syngenta, Topcon, Xarvio, and Yara.
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“Participants in and users of the ecosystem can look forward to welcoming further well-known partners from the entire agricultural value-added chain in the coming months,” says Allen. In the international context, there are nine additional partners offering their solutions including AMAZONE, DEULA, geo-konzept, iXMAP, LEMKEN, MyEasyFarm, ISOBUS Experts, RAUCH, and ZG Raiffeisen, which operate in Europe.
Seamless Interaction in Agriculture
The core of NEVONEX is the digital service. Any of the ecosystem partners can access NEVONEX’s technical infrastructure and tools; and quickly and easily develop a digital service based on NEVONEX. Once a NEVONEX-enabled control unit has been installed, the features can run directly on the relevant ecosystem manufacturer’s agricultural machines. This is the starting point for the farmer or contractor.
The control unit can be quickly and easily retrofitted and registered by an authorized partner on existing agricultural machinery made by manufacturers in the ecosystem. The NEVONEX-enabled control unit is integrated into the electronic architecture, which facilitates active intervention in the machine functions and makes the automation of work processes and their documentation possible. Access to data from existing or retrofitted compatible sensors on the agricultural machine leads to further potential for optimization.
The live sensor data allows the system to take the current conditions in the field into account and thus achieve higher yields or reduced costs through the more precise distribution of, for example, seeds, fertilizers, and crop protection. It is also possible to run several digital services on one machine simultaneously. Information is provided by terminal devices such as smartphones or tablets, based on the digital service. The direct transmission of data to the farmer’s farm management system can be a real time-saver.
Thanks to the simple, direct implementation of the digital services on the machine and automatic data transfer, many of the operating steps, such as the use of flash drives, are no longer necessary. The digital services work both online and offline in the field. When the system is used offline, data can be quickly and easily updated by Wi-Fi in the farmyard. Safety standards take into account the fact that the farmer’s data is highly sensitive and is therefore protected from unauthorized access at all times. At the same time, agricultural businesses can make their fleet equipment and vehicles “smart” and benefit from the smooth interaction between the connected devices. Together with its partners, NEVONEX has set up a comprehensive service concept to answer questions that might arise. This includes the installation service and individual support for use in the field.
“We designed NEVONEX from the start as an open solution available to all manufacturers of agricultural machinery, sensors, and control units as well as to developers of digital services,” Allen says. “As a result, users benefit from a growing variety of digital services and compatible devices along the entire value-added chain from tilling the land to sowing, fertilizing, crop protection, and harvesting. This gives our users the flexibility to choose between the individual offers, put together a tailor-made package and adapt it to their current requirements at any time.”
An early adopter program is currently running for NEVONEX with chosen partners. This will be significantly expanded in 2021 and will be freely accessible to farmers and contractors in selected regions in Europe, North and Latin America.
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