Crop monitoring system and method

A technology for monitoring systems, sub-systems, applied in the field of systems of one or more parameters, capable of addressing issues such as marketing, management, handling and storage effects of root vegetables

Active Publication Date: 2019-12-20
B HIVE INNOVATIONS LTD
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Mismatch between expected and actual parameters can have implications for marketing, management, handling and storage of root vegetables

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[0066] Embodiments may include a monitoring system 1 configured to determine one or more parameters related to one or more harvested items 21 .

[0067] Monitoring system 1 (for example, see Image 6 ) includes an imaging subsystem 11 configured to determine one or more parameters. The monitoring system 1 may include one or more of the following: a storage subsystem 12 , a communication subsystem 13 , a location subsystem 14 and a power subsystem 15 .

[0068] The location subsystem 14 may be configured to determine the current location of the monitoring system 1 (or components thereof). For example, this location might be longitude and latitude. In some embodiments, the location may be relative to a fixed geographic location.

[0069] Storage subsystem 12 may be configured to store one or more parameters and / or current location (if provided, as determined by location subsystem 14). Storage subsystem 12 may also be configured to store other information, as will be apparent...

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A crop monitoring system configured to determine one or more parameters associated with harvested items, the system comprising: a camera module having a field of view and configured to generate imagedata associated with the harvested items; a mounting bracket configured to secure the camera module to a harvester such that a conveyor of the harvester is within the field of view of the camera module; a location sub-system configured to determine and output location data representative of a geographical location of the harvester monitoring system; and a processing unit configured to receive theimage data and the location data, to determine one or more parameters associated with the harvested items, and to record the one or more parameters in association with the location data on a computerreadable medium.

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technical field [0001] Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for monitoring harvesters and crops. More specifically, some embodiments relate to systems and methods for monitoring one or more parameters associated with one or more harvested items, such as root vegetables, during the harvesting phase. Background technique [0002] Assessing relevant parameters for some crops prior to harvest is difficult. Especially root vegetables like potatoes. In particular, it is difficult to determine parameters such as the size of root vegetables before they are harvested because they are in the ground. [0003] To determine these parameters, farmers typically harvest root vegetables from one or more sample areas of the field, analyze the or each harvested sample to determine the or each sample's parameters, and then extrapolate these results to estimate more Parameters for root vegetables over a large area, such as the field from which the or each sample was coll...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A01D91/02A01D33/00
CPCA01D2033/005A01C21/007A01B79/005A01D17/00A01B47/00A01B69/001A01D33/00A01D91/00A01D41/127A01D43/087
Inventor V·古鲁拉真A·莱特M·汉森I·哈里斯M·史密斯L·史密斯D·萨姆沃斯L·格林伍德
Owner B HIVE INNOVATIONS LTD
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