The remote monitoring tools in Operations Center keep you connected to your equipment and fields,
even when you’re away from the farm. Whether you need to see a machine’s location,
check-in on an operator’s job performance, or get quick assistance from your John Deere dealer,
these tools allow you to be aware, proactive, and remote.
In this video, we will discuss five topics:
equipment location and status,
Remote Display Access, equipment monitoring,
field monitoring, and location history and mobile location sharing.
Machines equipped with a 4G MTG. and will update their machine location on the Map in
Operations Center every five seconds. This is part of what we call near-real time monitoring.
You can see instantly whether your equipment is working, idle, or transporting.
Remote Display Access, commonly referred to as RDA, is your ultimate monitoring tool
to make it feel like you’re in the cab even when you can’t physically be there.
To initiate an RDA session, look for the RDA icon in the machine card in web and mobile.
Establishing an RDA session allows users to remotely see from a phone or
web page what is on the machine’s display. Being able to remotely see exactly what the
operator sees is game changing and makes communication much easier.
Operations Center’s equipment monitoring tools allow you to easily check in on your machines
to ensuring everything’s going well while also seeing helpful information like productivity.
You can also see things like fuel and diesel exhaust fluid by viewing
the machine cards on both web and mobile. This makes coordinating the fuel truck a lot easier.
As you explore the Equipment details, you’ll see different tabs to help you monitor your equipment.
The “Right Now” tab shows speed and progress of the field it’s working on
right now and other items like engine load.
The “Today” tab shows the machine’s working, transport, and idle time for the day.
The “Work” tab shows the list of fields your machine was in today
and every field it has completed in the past.
The “Alerts” tab lets you review machine alerts and diagnostic
trouble codes remotely. You can this information to quickly identify issues and prevent downtime.
Lastly, “Setup” allows you to view serial numbers and software versions for your display
and the JDLink modem which is critical to know during troubleshooting.
The map in Operations Center is the most important view of the farm.
It provides an overview of where all the different fields are located
and the fields are color coded to indicate the last completed operation.
Select the field card to check in on each of the fields during tillage, seeding, application, or
harvest season. Here you will see a progress bar to understand how much work has been completed in
the field so far, current work totals, and other details such as rates, moisture, and varieties.
To view the machine or machines working in this field, select the “Equipment” tab.
The green pulsing light in the mobile app means that work is currently underway,
and the details are being updated every 30 seconds.
Machine location history helps you know where your equipment has been throughout the day.
You can identify your machine’s location at a specific time and its direction of
travel. Location history for connected machines appears in the map. When you select a machine,
the last 24 hours of location history will highlight in a light green color.
If your machine does not have JDLink connectivity, you can still gather location data by enabling
Mobile Location Sharing. To do this, select the “Share Location” button. This feature
allows you to use your cellphone’s GPS to collect location data for the machine anywhere, anytime.
To view location history that is older than 24 hours,
visit the Map in Operations Center web. The “gear” icon on the right-hand side of the
page lets you change the date so you can view location history within the last two years.
There are many informational articles to help you as you use the monitor tools.
Navigate to the Assistance Menu and select “Help Documentation”.
In this video, you have learned more about the tools available to
help you monitor your farm in Operations Center.
Thanks for watching!