Spray quality monitoring system SprayMon

for agriculturereal-time

Spraying on the Radar Plant protection cannot be too precise. To date the continous monitoring of nozzles for function and quality of the spray in real-time in the application of e.g. sprayers was not possible or at prohibitive cost. Quality para­meters of the spray are e.g. spraying angle, amount of volume flux, spatial distribution of volume flux, droplet size distribution and drift connected to that, speed and impact distribution of the droplets as well as its distribution when hitting the target. The MSO SprayMon provides for an OEM and retrofit solution for monitoring function and working quality of the nozzles of a sprayer based on SprayRay sensors. Deterioration of spray quality is detected in the spray process in real-time. If deviation over- or under­shoots a threshold set by the operator the SprayMon throws an alarm showing the respective nozzle number(s) on the SprayMon on-board computer. SprayMon can be integrated in an OEM e.g. ISOBUS solution. SprayMon can be configured according to a given machine in a flexible way with daisy-chained hub boxes, an ECU (Electronics Control Unit) and a MSO SprayMon on-board computer. On each hub box 8 MSO SprayRay sensors are directly wired. The SprayRay sensors are mounted one per nozzle detecting the spray. On each hub 8 SprayRay sensors are wired. The hubs are daisy-chained and connected to an ECU. To simplify the mounting the ECU has two connectors for one hub chain each for the left and right side of the boom. The ECU is connected to the MSO SprayMon on-board computer or on an OEM´s computer. Implemented on the MSO SprayMon on-board computer is an application specific monitoring software.