Vision System Helps Cut Grain Loss

Vision System Helps Cut Grain Loss COMBINES Accessories A combination of cameras and artificial intelligence is putting an extra 3 to 8 bushels per acre of grain into combine hoppers Farmwave Harvest Vision captures grain loss at the header and the combine’s rear Operators can see for themselves if they need to fine-tune settings     “Our cameras take pictures every 3 to 5 seconds 140 times per acre ” says Craig Ganssle Farmwave “Artificial intelligence AI analyzes each picture to measure the loss Pictures are displayed in real-time in the cab for each side of the header alerting you if you’re exceeding your lost grain threshold ”     Ganssle has been working on the system for the past 8 years with 6 years in research and development Another 2 years were spent prototyping systems and bringing them to market     This past year the Harvest Vision system was made available for use in soybeans corn peanuts cotton loss and wheat Work is progressing on adding edible beans canola and cotton trash to the crop list     Farmwave set a goal of having 150 units on farms in 2023 but they ran into problems with shipping and defects in the hardware Ganssle is confident that problem is behind them this year with a change in suppliers     “We’ve gone with an all-in-one tablet from Dell computers ” he says “It eliminates the need for a stand-alone computer processing unit Our in-cab footprint is reduced by about a third ”     Ganssle adds that the Farmbook tablet can be moved easily between machines with ready access to captured field data     “It’s a very rugged industrial-grade tablet with a lot of horsepower inside ” says Ganssle “It has more capability than the most expensive smartphone We visualize a lot of new opportunities to continue building on our AI with this tablet ”     Harvest Vision is the first of a series of AI-supported systems Farmwave plans to introduce Ganssle describes planting spraying crop scouting and livestock management as areas that are currently on the shelf One that has already proven its abilities is intelliSCOUT It can be used with a smartphone or Google glasses and is designed to be intuitive     “You can take a clear picture of a crop and it’ll identify what the weather was at the time and where the picture was taken ” says Ganssle “It can identify diseases or insects in the picture or count the nodes on the stalk It’s 95 percent accurate on node count bumps on a raspberry or kernels on a corncob and 99 percent accurate in pest and pathogen identification ”     “We’re after value for farmers ” he says “We still have a long road ahead of us but we’re solving one problem really well ”     Kits are available with two-camera header only and three-camera full combine options A three-camera system with the 10-in Farmbook tablet and Havis docking station is priced at $15 285 The 12-in Farmbook system is priced at $15 820     Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Farmwave 120 S Chestatee St Suite 205D Dahlonega Ga 30533 ph 706-250-0066; support@farmwave com; www farmwave com

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