In just a few weeks, from October 17 to 21, the next AEF Fall Plugfest will take place at the Savoia Hotel in Bologna, Italy. We are very much looking forward to the first European face to face Plugfest after the two-year break due to the pandemic. In conjunction with the Plugfest, AEF is preparing few brief updates at the same location. The brand new Universal Terminal (UT3) Conformance Test environment will be introduced. In addition, new features of the AEF ISOBUS Database will be presented…

Autonomy in Agriculture Day, the AEF and AEM Ag Technology Leadership Group examine how to collaborate and take on the challenges of autonomous machine to machine interoperability. A packed agenda saw several potential collaborations explored. The Team Leaders discussed activities that the AEF should support to take on the challenges of a multi branded autonomous system. How can AEF ensure that machine to machine communication will be safe, secure and have defined liability?

After two years of virtual events, the ASABE’s Annual International Meeting returned to an “in person” event which took place from the 17th to the 20th of July in (a very humid) Houston, Texas. Alfred Kornes, Communication and Marketing Team Leader and Andrew Olliver, AEF Vice Chairman were in attendance and jointly delivered a presentation during one of the morning sessions on the 18th of July which provided the audience with an overview of the latest activities of some of the AEF Projects.

Operators working with the TaskController in the field sometimes have issues while importing ISO-XML taskdata in different terminals. This could be for several reasons: One of the most common issues is the wrong folder structure on the USB stick. Some terminal suppliers are strict with the folder structure, which means that the TASKDATA.XML cannot be found. Another reason could be the wrong file naming. It’s important that the task data is named “TASKDATA.XML” by using capital letters.

AEF is pleased to announce that Ryan Milligan has been approved as AEF Team Lead Deputy of the Communications and Marketing Team (C&M) and happy to announce that Benjamin Neermann is the new AEF Team Lead Deputy of the Tractor Implement Management Team (TIM).

Guideline AEF 007 RIG 2.0 ISOBUS – ISOBUS Automation

The Functional Safety Team has successfully released a new version of the Guideline AEF 007 that defines a minimum set of fuctional safety-related requirements that shall be adhered to with respect to automated functions in ISOBUS systems.

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