DataConnect global availability in 6 major digital platforms

KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 -- DataConnect, the global initiative to enable viewing mixed-brand fleets in a single platform, is now live with an expanded line of six major digital platforms and available to farm operations worldwide.

Case IH, STEYR and New Holland now join John Deere, CLAAS and the European farm management platform 365FarmNet, which launched the feature late last fall.

Any farm operations using any self-propelled forage harvesters, combines or tractors from the participating brands now can view it all in one participating platform. Previously, viewing such information required managing additional portal for each brand involved.

With this new approach, customers can view five different machinery data parameters from their machine fleet, namely, current machine location; historical machine position; fuel tank level; status of the machine in the field; and machine speed.

Farm operator/owner wanting to use the option need to provide themselves with permission to view all equipment in the platform most convenient for them.

Once connected, the machines of the other manufactures appear automatically in that portal, with vehicles displayed with icons in the respective brand colours.

According to a statement, DataConnect works without any additional hardware and software components and ensures secure data handling, whereby the solution applies to hundreds of thousands of already connected machines.

The addition of CNH Industrial means that users of AFS Connect, the telematics platform of Case IH, MyPLM Connect for New Holland, and S-Tech for STEYR, will have the option for the cloud-to-cloud exchange of data with both John Deere Operations Center and CLAAS TELEMATICS or 365FarmNet portals.

-- BERNAMA