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AgIN

The Agricultural Interoperability Network.
Sharing agricultural data among OEMs, data hubs, FMIS, and service solutions.


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Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN)

What is AgIN ?


The Agricultural Interoperability Network facilitates the seamless sharing of agricultural data among OEMs, Data Hubs, and FMIS solutions, allowing participants to establish direct connections for their users. Key use cases involve sharing machine data, work orders and work records.

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Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN)

The Benefits of AgIN


➔ Standardized agricultural cloud-to-cloud data exchange
➔ Connecting established agricultural platforms – not introducing a new platform
➔ Creating a scalable agricultural data ecosystem
➔ Leveraging existing standards and data formats
➔ Empowering farmers with data control that complies with global legal regulations

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    Worldwide

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    Existing dataformats

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    Save time and money

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    Cloud to cloud connection

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    Easy to use




Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN)

Challenges addressed with AgIN


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What problems can be solved with AgIN:


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    The Problem:

    While Ag-Platform providers achieve data compatibility through individual connections, not all platforms are accessible to farmers, creating gaps in data integration and limiting operational efficiency...



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    The Solution:

    Ag-Platform providers achieve interoperability with other platforms through a unified framework.

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    The Problem:

    Fragmented partnerships among platforms result in specialized legal agreements that are not easily scalable...



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    The Solution:

    Ag-Platform providers can establish interoperability with other platforms via one dedicated framework.

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    The Problem:

    Ag-Platform providers operate using multiple data formats and application interfaces, hindering the interoperability of farm data...



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    The Solution:

    Common use cases define AgIN application interfaces and data formats.

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    The Problem:

    Farmers often need to use multiple platforms to manage their agricultural operations, leading to repetitive and manual efforts...



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    The Solution:

    Empowering farmers to streamline data flows across their familiar agricultural platforms, minimizing repetitive manual tasks.

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    The Problem:

    Each established connection requires platform providers to individually manage maintenance, testing, and quality assurance, adding to their operational burden...



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    The Solution:

    AEF conformance tests ensure quality and compatibility for every use case.

Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN)

Companies supporting AgIN

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“Actia Italia strongly believes that farming can be made more efficient and sustainable by switching to a data-driven agriculture. The key aspect to be able to reach this goal is interoperability. AEF’s AgIN project aims at providing a solution to reach interoperability. This is why Actia Italia fully supports this project.”

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ACTIA

“AEM supports any initiative that adds value for our members and their customers. We believe in the power of cross-sector collaboration, and industry wide consensus standardization. AEF’s AgIN project is the solution that ensures machine interoperability through data exchange compatibility. This will allow end users to select the most efficient and sustainable solutions for their unique needs.”

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AEM

“The AgIN initiative addresses a key hurdle in digitized agriculture: incompatible data exchange among manufacturers and service providers. It marks a milestone in mixed fleet interoperability, monitoring, and activity documentation. As a founding AEF member, AGCO is actively engaged in this customer-focused project.”

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AGCO

“For more than a decade, AgGateway has collaborated with AEF on standards, guidelines, tools, and educational events to improve interoperability in agriculture. AEF’s AgIN project demonstrates AEF’s leadership in addressing machine-data transfer challenges, and AgGateway is committed to supporting this effort.”

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AgGateway

“Argo Tractors aims to respect the environment and make farmers’ job safer and easier. To improve the performance of our tractors, we developed new digital solutions and AEF goes in the right direction with the AgIN project.”

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ArgoTractors

“AMAZONE develops and offers efficient and environmentally friendly machinery, digital solutions and services for smart farming, where usage and non-discriminatory exchange of data is a key factor for success. That is why AMAZONE supports the AgIN project to standardize and enable easy data exchange at all levels between all stakeholders.”

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Amazone

“At Bosch Rexroth, we believe in the power of cross-company collaboration, open standards, and ecosystems. This is why we support AEF's AgIN initiative.”

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Bosch Rexroth

“In order to be able to exploit the installed capacity of smart machines and digital platforms that our customers already use today, it is necessary to offer cross-manufacturer interoperability. The AEF has taken an excellent approach with AgIN to enable this interoperability comprehensively and worldwide. CLAAS supports this.”

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CLAAS

“Farmers of the world don't farm alone. They rely on partners. CNH Industrial continues to help customers maximize the value of the abundant agronomic and machine data our equipment creates by sharing it with the many partners they work with. We applaud the efforts of AgIN to bring interoperability to farmers and partners around the globe.”

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CNHi

“Interoperability is the key to success in agricultural digitalization and automation. dev4Agriculture supports the AgIN initiative and will support all interested partners in the implementation of the interface.”

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dev4Agriculture

“At Dinamica Generale, our goal is to revolutionize agriculture by integrating innovative solutions from high-tech companies. We foster collaboration and synergy among technologies to create an ecosystem that simplifies and enhances farmers' lives. Supporting ISOBUS and AEF, we provide farmers with tools to increase efficiency and optimize resources.”

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Dinamica Generale

“As the provider of agrirouter, DKE-Data will integrate the AgIN interface into its cross-manufacturer data exchange platform. This will offer farmers and contractors more options for cross-product data exchange, optimizing agricultural value chains while considering sustainability.”

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DKE-Data

“At GRIMME we ensure that farmers all over the world are given the opportunity to achieve optimal results at every stage of their production process. As software solutions and connectivity are offering an increasing value to our customers, we support AgIN helping to ensure a scalable and highly available data exchange between our machines and the software solution preferred by our customers and partners.”

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GRIMME

“HORSCH develops technical and digital solutions for modern agriculture. We support any initiative that adds value for our customers, including fast and easy data exchange between network partners.”

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Horsch

“In agriculture, seamless data exchange between various systems and equipment is essential for our customers. John Deere supports the AgIN initiative to drive interoperability, ensuring farmers can operate more efficiently and productively.”

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John Deere

“Together with agrirouter the AgIN project will bring huge benefit for smart farming and establish standards for interoperability.)”

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Krone

“Kubota and Kverneland have always led in interoperability, supporting the ISOBUS community and AEF as founding members. AgIN advances our machines' data exchange between equipment and platforms, providing customers with future investment security and seamless compatibility across different platforms.”

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Kubota/Kverneland

“Let's connect the solutions! Beside the Agrirouter platform, KUHN supports the AgIN initiative. It is essential to connect new solutions and facilitate data exchange between tractors, terminals, farm management software and equipment’s.”

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Kuhn

“Many data platforms, from larger OEMs to community initiatives, are emerging worldwide. Farmers should benefit from increased digitization and data exchange capabilities, choosing systems that meet their needs and provide required data security. AEF standardization of data exchange between machine-related platforms is therefore critical.”

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OSB connagtive GmbH

“In modern agriculture, the use and exchange of data is becoming increasingly important. Existing and new initiatives that promise our customers added value in the area of interoperability are therefore also of great importance to Pöttinger.”

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Pöttinger

“We fully support the goals of the project as essential for a non-discriminatory data exchange in agricultural business.”

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Rauch

“SDF develops and promotes digital solutions that are standard, open, and interoperable, allowing customers to easily manage all farm processes without struggling with compatibility issues. SDF, as it did with Agrirouter, promotes the AgIn project as a digital solution capable of standardizing heterogeneous data sources for all machine ranges and regardless of the machine technology content.”

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SDF

“At Trimble, our vision is to help farmers work more efficiently through data-driven practices and decision-support tools. A critical part of this vision is enabling farmers to complete workflows with solutions from multiple technology providers. We fully support the AEF AgIN project for facilitating efficient integration of apps from different companies to streamline cross-platform workflows.”

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Trimble

“VDMA Agricultural Machinery represents over 200 European manufacturers of agricultural machinery, tractors, and related software. Digitization has long been essential for sustainable agriculture and climate goals. Future efforts must enable machines, software, and companies to negotiate complete business processes, like documenting sowing operations. VDMA supports the AgIN initiative for productivity and ecological goals.”

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VDMA

“Walvoil is an active supporter of standardization as a mean to promote better products and user experiences. AgIN is a major step forward in this direction, enabling the seamless exchange of data in the agricultural multi-brand environment.”

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Walvoil

“We believe farming interoperability is crucial for helping farmers and agrifood supply chains benefit from a true digital ecosystem. AgIN will connect the market faster and easier, providing farmers and food companies with more complete and accurate decisional support for sustainability and efficiency.”

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xFarm

Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN)

Steps required for Platform Providers to join


Become an AEF Member and signing a single AgIN agreement with AEF to enable legally compliant data sharing
Receiving specifications and implementing desired use cases
Validating the implementation with the AEF conformance test
Receiving confirmation upon successful testing
Being listed as an AgIN participant in the AEF AgIN Database, thus becoming discoverable

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Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN)

The AgIN Project Team


What it does, how you can join, how we work together.

What it does:

The AEF AgIN project team convenes regularly, either virtually or in-person, to collaborate on advancing the initiative.

How you can join:
Contact the AEF office to become an AEF member.

How we work together:
Once a member, you can actively engage with the AgIN team. Similarly, if you have new use cases or network needs, the AgIN team will review and consider them for inclusion in their prioritized backlog.


What´s next?

AgIN Roadmap



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What´s next?

Onboarding Package for Agritechnica 2025

  • Online-
    Presentations

    • For Management
      (Recording available)
    • For Technicians
      (Recording available)
  • Roadshow
    with Q&A Sessions

    • Meetings with interested parties
  • Technical
    Support

    • Product specification
    • Operations handbook
    • Integration manual
    • Support on technical issues during implementation by selected software development company

What´s next?

Now is the time to act!
Joining the AgIN network is a step towards driving innovation and building a sustainable, connected agricultural ecosystem.
Feel free to reach out!

Contact

Get in touch

AEF Contact


  • Contact for North and South America
    AEF Secretary
    AEM (Association of Equipment Manufacturers)
    6737 W. Washington Street, Suite 2400
    Milwaukee, WI 53214-5647, USA
    » america@aef-online.org

  • Contact for Europe and Asia
    AEF Office
    Blessenstätte 36
    33330 Gütersloh
    Germany
    » office@aef-online.org

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