Why Connectivity Is Key To Making Ag Tech Tools Successful
May 20, 2022 
Advances in connectivity — and interconnectivity — are critical to the adoption and more-fully realized potential of agricultural technology. Given this fact, more specialty crop growers should be staying plugged into these types of evolving innovations.
Dr. Micha Muenzenmay is a Director of systems engineering for commercial vehicles and off-highway applications at Robert Bosch and CTO of NEVONEX, a digital machine service platform. I asked Muenzenmay, with his background in electronic control, automation, driver assistance, electronic control units and connectivity, to share his perspectives on how connectivity is currently being used in ag tech and how it will affect farming in the future.
Here is a snippet of what he had to say about the latest developments in tech and connectivity: “Over the last four or five years, connectivity has really made a big step forward. If you look at it from a system perspective, connectivity has moved forward with cloud application programming interfaces. This not only enables simple data transfers, but also makes data and abilities of assets, like machines, available to the cloud community, so that everybody that wants to do development can do so.
“We’ve also seen implementation of standardized data exchange across machines. This is happening in the U.S. with AgGateway, and in parallel in Europe with Agrirouter. It’s great that these two initiatives are happening between original equipment manufacturers.
“There is also a lot of progress with regards to intelligent machines, cloud technology, and modern algorithms, such as artificial intelligence or process chain optimization, that have laid a beautiful foundation for innovation in our industry.
“The ag tech industry is a quite an interesting industry. There is a lot of investment that has been taking place over the years to lay out a huge foundation of technology. Connectivity, interoperability, and easily accessible ecosystems are the missing link as they will make value creation happen.”
For more of the conversation, continue reading the entire article featured as part of our special Global Insight Series report on Ag Technology.
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