Precision Agriculture

One of the first applications that springs to mind when speaking about precision agriculture or smart farming is navigating machines that drive on the fields for automation and efficiency. These can be harvesters, combines, fertilizers, ploughs and more. Most of these machines have an accurate GPS system, which allows the driver to know the location of the vehicle and to prevent double fertilization or missing a spot. However, there are several limiting factors to GPS that can be easily solved using IMUs or AHRSs. Xsens is one of the leading innovators in this technology, the MTi 1-series IMU/AHRS is designed with the precision agriculture developments in mind.