Monitoring of the Combine with Smart Devices in Soybean Harvesting

Abstract

GIS technology based on real-time smart devices, including GPS devices and sensors will be widely used in agricultural technology. Therefore, this technology is being expected in crop harvesting process. One of the most important processes in soybean cultivation is the efficient use of combines and harvesting without loss of harvest. The grain harvester combine Dominator-130 equipped with GPS receiver and grain level sensor was researched in harvesting the soybean. According to results of experiments, during the harvesting of soybean the grain cleanness in a tank of the combine harvester Dominator-130 made up 95.9 per cent, grain loss in a thresher of combine made up 0.7 per cent, these indexes answer to the demands, however in a reaper of combine harvester the grain loss and damaging of grain were higher than demand. Therefore, it is important to define the optimal technological parameters and working regimes that give opportunity to decrease the loss of grain in the reaper of combine and damaging of grain in the thresher of combine for harvesting the soybean.