The harvest of the 21/22 soybean harvest is already underway in the Brazilian center-west and, once again, Jacto Next - Jacto's services area - has had a special participation in this process, delivering Agriculture 4.0 services to EKOS customers , a platform that allows online management of operations, from planning and monitoring to monitoring execution, allowing interventions to be carried out whenever necessary and defining indicators to improve and maintain the quality of agricultural operations.
Using this platform makes management easy and assertive. It is possible to monitor the performance of the entire fleet of multi-brand machines involved in operations, from soil preparation to harvesting. Currently, more than 200 grain harvesters involved in the process are connected, via 4G, to the EKOS platform and can be monitored online.
Various data, from countless sensors present in the harvesters, are digitized during the harvesting operation and sent online, from grain moisture to the height and status of the platform. This data generates valuable information that affects, among other factors, the quality of the harvested product. Grain moisture, for example, directly influences the occurrence of mechanical and crushing damage, leading to crop losses.
“Through this data, information is generated regarding operational efficiency and yield, speed in operation and movement, performance of operators and staff, fuel consumption (liters/ha and liters/h), bushings, reasons for stops, productivity in bags /ha, among others. This information can be viewed on thematic maps and indicator graphs that are available on the EKOS platform, inserted in the Jacto Connect digital ecosystem, making interpretation and access even easier for the producer”, explains Felippe Antonelle Gonçalves, business manager at Jacto Next.
In addition to automating the acquisition and transmission of data and facilitating the interpretation of the information generated, another benefit of EKOS is that it can also be accessed through the Jacto Connect mobile application, and the data generated can be viewed remotely, from anywhere with access to the internet. Internet.
The EKOS platform allows you to monitor all agricultural operations, such as sowing, spraying, fertilizer application and harvesting, while they are still being carried out, that is, it is possible to monitor what happens at each point on the property, 24 hours a day, during the 7 days of the week.
Another important feature of EKOS is that the operator can make all machine stop notes directly from the cabin, specifying the reasons, whether due to the weather, bushing, among others. From these notes, maps/reports are generated, through which the frequencies of stops and the main reasons identified can be evaluated. Furthermore, the operator receives, through the platform, all operational alerts, such as speeding, administrative alerts, such as divergences in the application area, and also alerts related to telemetry, which include, for example, machine engine overheating. . This information is essential for crop management and monitoring.
This monitoring makes it possible to achieve greater operational capacity and more efficient operations, as the farmer/manager has broad and detailed knowledge of the operation. Furthermore, it is possible to correlate the information generated, such as operating speed and fuel consumption, as shown in the image below. The analysis of this information allows for more assertive decision-making, which includes relocating machines and changing operational parameters, such as speed definition, within a pre-established range for the operation, which provides lower fuel consumption, for example, contributing to improving the profitability of the operation.
The information obtained through data capture shows the importance of connectivity and the operations management system within the gate and, in this aspect, the EKOS platform has stood out due to its simplicity, mainly in the comparison of maps generated in different operations for investigate the correlation of one map/operation with another. Furthermore, new features are constantly being developed in order to increasingly provide producers with important information that will contribute to improving the management of everyone involved in agribusiness, from machines to human resources.
In general, harvesting is one of the main agricultural operations, as it reflects all the management applied to the crop, in addition to directly influencing the final profitability of the crop. In this sense, the generation of productivity maps is one of the main agricultural management tools, as it allows inferring relevant information, together with other maps generated in other operations, such as planting, for example. Through the joint analysis of the two maps, it is possible to observe the magnitude of the effects provided by several factors, such as variation in plant density, planting failures, high speed in operations, among others, allowing the farmer to act only on those that are truly significant. In the image below, for example, it is possible to see that the variability in the plant population established during planting did not significantly influence productivity, which may be related to the plasticity of the crop.
It is very common to find, within the same agricultural area, variability in final productivity, as exemplified in the image below. Using productivity maps generated in EKOS, it is possible to investigate the causes of this variability, guiding sampling to delimit management zones and produce profit maps. Furthermore, the generation of annual productivity maps generates a crop history, which makes it possible to evaluate the variability observed within the same plot over time. Finally, it can be said that the maps generated are guidelines for the application of rational input management, which increases the profitability of the operation and agricultural activity.
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