Soil protection integrated interactively in the tractor terminal
The first silver medal goes to the CEMOS for tractors operator assistance system which in future will be able to draw on the decades of specialist knowledge concentrated in the Terranimo® application in order to calculate the risk of harmful soil compaction without any increase in the operator's workload. A display on the CEBIS terminal informs the operator if the current tractor-implement combination represents a risk of harmful soil compaction under the prevailing soil conditions. The calculations required for this are based on machine and soil condition data which are obtained from the CEMOS assistance system and are combined with Terranimo®, a soil compaction simulation model developed by Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH-HAFL) in cooperation with the Agroscope Research Institute in Reckenholz, Aarhus University in Denmark and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). If the operator responds to the visual display of the compaction risk for three soil layers by modifying any of the settings – such as the tyre pressure – for the tractor-implement combination, this information is fed straight into the current risk assessment performed by the Terranimo® function. In this way, the operator receives direct feedback on the effect of the optimisation process.