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TECSight Update: John Deere Technology NEWS, Autumn 2024
Author: Hamish Ross, Integrated Solutions Manager.
This past summer season, our TECSight team who provide unrivalled John Deere support, showcased remarkable dedication, navigating through the summer harvest and setting a robust pace for 2024.
“We finished up with a pretty good harvest across the AORs. Our remote support, TFS team and Precision Agriculture (PA) teams worked tirelessly, ensuring seamless operations and data accuracy. All three TECSight teams were kept busy with Toby Pitt and his remote team taking 9500 calls and 120 optimisation visits by the TFS team led by Glen Montgomery. The PA team also play a critical role, ensuring that all harvest data was flowing neatly and accurately to Operations Centre.
January 2024 saw most harvests finish unlike the previous couple of years, so the TECSight PA team look forward to getting back into the office and running clinics. We just completed a round of Operations Centre Clinics across AORs, focused on post-harvest data workshops, in addition to covering what is new in Operations Centre. We helped customers work through what data they have recorded, what data they were expecting to record and assisted them to make any required amendments. Customers reported that by the end of the clinics they felt totally confident that they know how to make sure their data is accurate. We also delved into what to do with this data, walking through the prescription generation tool in Operations Centre and learning how to create prescriptions to utilise that valuable data in the season ahead. We also focused on pre-cotton harvest data set up workshops where we make sure that Operations Centre is set up accurately to ensure that the data comes in precisely for the harvest.
We took note of customer feedback and future TECSight PA clinics currently in production will look at the pre sowing set up. We will cover how to guarantee sowing data is correct to ensure accurate input at sowing time. This data sets the scene for the season ahead. The TECSight PA team are busy curating the program for the upcoming clinics, so we encourage customers to reach out and provide their feedback on what they would like covered.
Please Contact your local Hutcheon & Pearce branch to sign up for upcoming TECSight clinics and keep an eye on our website and social media channels for more details.
Are you prepared for the 3G shutoff on June 30 2024?
Having your machines connected is vital for minimising downtime and ensuring you get the most out of your them. Without it, the TECSight remote support team will no longer be able to remote access trouble codes, see what’s on the machine display, and get access to alerts and even send software remotely. These features make a huge difference to whether we can get you back operating as soon as possible. On June 30 2024, Telstra is shutting off 3G. This means that all John Deere 3G modems will cease to communicate with John Deere Operations Centre. It also means that some 4G modems will no longer communicate with John Deere Operations Centre due to a Telstra change back in 2018. Hutcheon & Pearce are currently administering a program to swap impacted modems. Some modems will have both parts and labour covered, others parts only and unfortunately there will be those not covered at all. John Deere and Hutcheon and Pearce are providing incentives, so it is critical to contact your branch for more information.
Do you know your Starfire history?
John Deere went from 1m to within 2cm year on year repeatability with radio RTK.
– 1m pass to pass accuracy where historically the operator still had to operate the steering.
– SF1 accuracy is now 15cm (6000 receiver)/23cms (3000 receiver).
– 15 minute pass to pass repeatability.
Radio RTK was released as a terrestrial based radio channel output that corrects the GPS signal for tectonic plate shift. The tractors looked to the receivers in the sky, searching for a tower within 40km and making corrections to get within 2cm. SF2 and SF3 has given us on SF2, 5cm pass to pass accuracy or SF3, 3cm repeatable for 9 months (this is on the older legacy receivers). SF2 and SF3 do not require a base station, but they do require an additional permanent license and renewable license.
Now is a critical time to make sure you understand the differences and why SF-RTK is the future.
Let's talk SF-RTK
The next iteration on the most recent 7000 receiver and 7500 receiver is SF-RTK. RTK like corrections from satellite only. There is no need to be connected to a base station. The first release for SF-RTK was repeatable for 5 years. John Deere is now promoting it as long term repeatable, which is the same as radio RTK.
John Deere’s modern precision ag strategy is heralding a lower cost, upfront approach. This is evidenced through SF-RTK where there is no requirement to buy an additional permanent license, you just subscribe year on year, unlike SF2 and SF3, where you had the upfront expense of a permanent license as well.
SF-RTK utilises the latest technology, whereas radio RTK utilises what is essentially outdated technology. To future proof, transitioning to SF-RTK should be a serious consideration especially with autonomy a reality. We caution that this is not to say radio RTK is being phased out and certainly Hutcheon & Pearce are not going to remove access to our shared base station network in the foreseeable future. However, new base stations will not be installed beyond what we currently utilise because SF-RTK is superior.
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