Fertilizer applicator monitoring system SeedMon

for seed drillsblockage detectionreal-time

SeedMon is the solution for function monitoring and blockage detection on seed drills and fertilizer / slurry applicators respectively for retrofit and original equipment manufacturers. Partial blockage with reduced throughput is reliably and immediately detected. Annoying late surprises and yield losses due to faulty or underdosed application are eliminated. SeedMon is flexibly configurable with a number (max. 255) of MSO SeeDector Sensors, (main) hubs and sub-hubs and an MSO on-board computer head unit or ECU of an OEM. The SeeDector Sensors are installed on each pipe or tube and connected to a hub or sub-hub. Up to three sub-hubs can be connected with short cables in a daisy-chain to a main hub to accommodate for the given distribution head of a pneumatic seed drill (max. 12, 24, 36, 48 pipes). Via CAN-Bus one or several main hubs (possibly with sub-hub(s)) are daisy-chained and connected to the MSO head unit or the ECU of an OEM . The MSO SeedMon System is calibrated in normal field operation. Over 30 seconds all SeeDector Sensors of a system are calibrated to the same average level in operation. Thus systematic deviations of the distribution and between the sensors are levelled out. In operation SeedMon is monitoring the material flow on every SeeDector Sensor attached to the system. The average of the material flow of all of the SeeDector sensors is computed.