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DPL America has added CAN bus functionality to its Titan Equipment Monitoring System, allowing it to monitor diagnostic fault codes, fuel consumption, idle versus work time, engine direct hour meter/odometer readings, temperatures, pressures and more. The Titan system is designed to wirelessly monitor and track mixed fleets of construction, agricultural and other off-road equipment, as well as over-the-road trucks, to increase productivity and reduce fleet costs. Machine data can be accessed from any Internet- connected device....More

If you think the future of crop production means ever-wider equipment pulled by ever-bigger tractors, think again. Self-driving so-called autonomous vehicles could change the face of crop production and resurrect machinery sizes common on farms 75 years ago. Instead of 500-hp tractors and 48-row planters, think of fleets of small power units pulling narrow implements with the combined capacity of today’s behemoths. Payoffs will include higher yields, reduced labor costs and greater overall productivity....More

Leica Geosystems autosteering technology will be integrated into tractors made by the Chinese manufacturer YTO. Leica has agreed to work with the major agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer YTO for precision guidance technology....More

Leica has a new real-time kinematic option for use with the mojo3D guidance display....More

Trimble unveiled its assisted steering system called EZ-Pilot at Farm Progress Show. The system is compact and affordable, according to Mark Martinez, Trimble marketing manager....More

Kinze Manufacturing demonstrated a driverless tractor pulling a grain cart that operates next to a combine for unloading. The company hopes to offer this autonomous row-crop technology to farmers in the near future....More

Trimble has upgraded FieldLevel II to an automated tiling, ditching, land-leveling and levee-building system....More

While AT&T, Verizon and other cellular communications providers have spent billions of dollars acquiring the radio spectrum for their national networks, the radio spectrum for the proposed LightSquared hybrid land and satellite-based communications system will be free of charge, courtesy of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)....More

Hemisphere GPS has added a 400-megahertz (MHz) long-range RTK radio as an option for Outback Guidance RTK systems,...More

AGCO's state-of-the-art training center will help educate and train dealers and employees on the increasingly sophisticated farm equipment that encompasses precision farming, guidance and other new technology....More