OmniRow™ and Slingshot® have been honored with AE50 Awards for innovations that improve agriculture production.
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) AE50 Awards highlight the year’s most innovative product-engineering designs in the areas of agricultural, food, and biological systems. An expert panel of engineers selects approximately 50 products for recognition and rank those selected in highest in innovation, significant engineering advancement, and impact on the market served. The AE50 guidelines require submitted products to embody the application of new technology or the innovative application of an older technology, and must be new to the whole industry, not just to an individual company.
About OmniRow
Raven’s OmniRow™ advanced planter control system has fully integrated design with RTK sub-inch accuracy and patent-pending planter control technology for maximum yields and efficiency. It controls seeding rates by row or section with precision and reliability. OmniRow™ works in sync with Raven’s Envizio Pro II field computer and Slingshot RTK/Online Service to deliver a definitive planting experience. Variable-rate seeding, automatic on-off planter control, and real-time seed monitoring can be managed by individual rows or sections for higher yields and elimination of costly skips, doubles, and over-plants. OmniRow™’s real-time seed monitoring and singulation ability allows the user to easily find optimum tractor speed for maximum yields and efficiency.
About Slingshot
Slingshot delivers connectivity through mobile networks for access to a system of RTK correction signals, sophisticated data management capabilities, precision ag equipment, and online services such as remote support and vehicle tracking. Zero line-of-sight RTK signal limitations provide uninterrupted operation and convenience. Slingshot RTK is compatible with Raven and non-Raven hardware and public CORS networks. The core of the Slingshot system is the Slingshot Field Hub. A small device that fits neatly into the vehicle cab, the hub connects precision ag hardware to the most advanced RTK correction signal available. It also connects operators, managers, and Slingshot support to each other via the Internet and puts a complete web experience on a field computer. The hub delivers Slingshot's advanced RTK correction signals and high-speed Internet to the field computer via mobile cell phone networks, the same wireless connectivity technology that powers smart phones and PDAs. However, Slingshot's industrial-grade hardware, software configuration, and high-end antennas can acquire signals with higher performance than a cell phone
Download ASABE's Resource Magazine March/April 2011 Engineering and Technology for a Sustainable World to read about all AE50 winners.