System and method for processing and displaying agricultural data

Abstract

A system for synchronizing agricultural data uses a synchronization device adapted to receive information from a storage medium associated with a monitor for an agricultural implement. The synchronization device has wireless communication with a mobile device to share the information from the monitor with the mobile device. The mobile device will compress and store the data until the mobile device has communication coverage. Once the mobile device has communication coverage, it will automatically communicate the compressed data to a remote server, such as a cloud server. The server will process the data. The processed data may be communicated back to the monitor via the mobile device and the synchronization device. The processed data may also be accessed on the server by a remote computer.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system for processing and displaying agricultural data, the system comprising:
 a monitor, the monitor adapted to receive implement data from an agricultural implement and adapted to store the implement data on a monitor storage medium, the monitor further including a display screen;   a mobile device, the mobile device having long range communication equipment, the mobile device further comprising a processor programmed with an application, such that the mobile device is adapted to receive the implement data from the monitor; and   a server adapted to receive information transmitted by the mobile device long range communication equipment, the server further adapted to manipulate the implement data into processed agricultural data.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the mobile device is adapted to retrieve the processed agricultural data from the server. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 2 , wherein the mobile device is adapted to transmit the processed agricultural data to the monitor. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the processor of the mobile device is adapted to compress the implement data to a compressed format. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the application causes the mobile device to send the implement data in a compressed format to the server. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 5 , wherein the application causes the mobile device to send the compressed format implement data to the server automatically when the mobile device has cellular communication coverage. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 6 , wherein the application causes the mobile device to store the compressed format implement data until the mobile device has cellular communication coverage. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the application causes the mobile device to display instruction screens instructing a user how to synchronize data from the monitor to the server using the synchronization device. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 8 , wherein the application includes a plurality of sets of instruction screens corresponding to a plurality of different types of monitors. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein the processor of the mobile device is adapted to select a set of instructions screens corresponding to the monitor from the plurality of sets of instruction screens based on a scanned code. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the scanned code is a QR code. 
     
     
         12 . A method of processing and synchronizing data from an agricultural implement, the method comprising:
 providing a synchronization device including data receiving equipment to receive data from a storage medium associated with the agricultural implement, the synchronization device further including a synchronization device short-range communicator;   extracting data from the storage medium using the data receiving equipment;   establishing a connection with a mobile device using the synchronization device short-range communicator;   pushing the extracted data to the mobile device via the established connection; and   downloading the extracted data from the mobile device to a remote server.   
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 12 , further comprising compressing the extracted data with the mobile device. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 12 , further comprising checking for communication coverage, and performing the downloading the extracted data step automatically only upon determining that communication coverage exists. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , further comprising storing the compressed data on the mobile device until it is determined that communication coverage exists. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 15 , further comprising resuming downloading the extracted data automatically upon determining that communication coverage exists when the downloading step has been interrupted.