By Heinrich Prankl, Wieselburg (Austria)

Digitalization is permeating all areas of our professional and private lives to an extent never seen before. This development is, of course, also evident in agriculture and especially in agricultural machinery. As a result, hardly any new machines, systems, or products appear on the market without electronics and more or less complex software.

The more expensive a product is, the more important professional service and maintenance become. Accordingly, machines in the higher performance range are naturally connected to the Internet.

However, the trend toward ever-increasing automation requires more and more intelligent systems, such as the use of complex sensor technology, control and regulation technology, and artificial intelligence.