Trimble announced today significant improvements to its Trimble CenterPoint RTX correction service, giving farmers the best of both worlds—the ease of use of the satellite-delivered corrections and RTK horizontal performance in less time. With improved convergence of up to 75 percent, farmers using the Trimble NAV-900 controller for machine guidance applications can now begin working in the field with 2.5-centimeter accuracy in less than five minutes—as compared to 20 minutes in the past.

The faster convergence is made possible by the inclusion of the BeiDou-III (BDS-III) constellation, which increases the overall satellites used by 25 percent. These additional satellites, combined with Trimble’s newly-released ProPoint technology on the NAV-900 GNSS guidance controller and the CenterPoint RTX service, deliver up to 40 percent greater positioning availability in challenging environments, including along treelines and gullies. This helps farmers get up and running, especially during critical field operations such as planting, harvesting, and spraying when precision and time are of the essence.

“Our mission is to deliver fast and reliable, easy-to-use, high-accuracy positioning everywhere farmers need it. With this latest breakthrough in CenterPoint RTX performance, we’ve reached a pivotal moment where farmers can take advantage of RTK-level performance in an easy-to-implement, cost-effective, globally available correction service. Our goal is to make the farmer’s work easier by making accuracy easier,”

said Lisa Wetherbee, general manager of Trimble Advanced Positioning.

CenterPoint RTX correction service, when coupled with Trimble’s next-gen ProPoint technology, provides powerful flexibility and productivity. Now, farmers can quickly achieve RTK-level horizontal performance without a local base station, offering greater ease of use and freedom to choose how they obtain their corrections data—via cellular IP or satellite L-band—to best fit how and where they work. This performance boost is now available on the Trimble NAV-900 guidance controller, a multi-constellation receiver supporting GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BDS-III, used for precision agriculture solutions.

“We understand that farmers are stretched thinner than ever given evolving environmental and resource concerns. We are designing precision agriculture solutions that help farmers save time and work more efficiently,”

said Jim Chambers, vice president of Trimble Agriculture.

CenterPoint RTX capabilities are an integral component of Trimble’s Connected Farm vision, enabling farmers as they begin to leverage autonomous solutions on their own terms. High-accuracy positioning, uptime, and reliability are essential elements, which enable a more efficient farm today and in the future. CenterPoint RTX was designed to help farmers realize the value of autonomy-enabled solutions, no matter where they are on that journey.

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Iron Solutions serves the heavy equipment industry, providing market information, analytics-based intelligence, and cloud-based enterprise systems to facilitate equipment transactions and improve dealer and lender productivity.

“EDA by Randall-Reilly is a leading equipment market intelligence platform and last year we launched equipmentexperts.com, a disruptor in used equipment merchandising. The addition of Iron Guides, a market standard for used equipment valuation among lenders enables us to super-serve both our dealer and buyer audiences,”

said Matt Reilly, president, and CEO of Randall-Reilly.

“We are continually evaluating our portfolio of businesses as we work on the execution of Trimble’s Connect and Scale 2025 strategy. As we refocus our efforts on Trimble’s core capabilities, Iron Solutions will be an ideal fit with Randall-Reilly’s existing portfolio of market intelligence solutions,”

said Rob Painter, president, and CEO of Trimble.

Trimble’s Iron Solutions business has been reported as part of the Resources and Utilities Segment. The sale will not have a material impact on Trimble’s segment or overall financial results.

BrightTower served as financial advisor to Randall-Reilly.

Source: Trimble

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The collaboration extends beyond autonomously controlling machines, such as the self-propelled crop protection sprayers, to full workflow automation from the office to the field. This relationship integrates Trimble’s established autonomy expertise in guidance systems, path planning, and in-field process automation with Horsch’s fleet of machines.

The first phase will bring automation to the complex planning, machine control, and logistical challenges faced by sprayer operators to improve machine performance and reduce operating errors. This functionality can significantly reduce the driver’s workload, while still allowing them to intervene at any time. In the long term, this technology establishes a basis for operating fully autonomous machines.

Horsch and Trimble have successfully collaborated on implementing control technologies and are extending this to include full machine control solutions. The companies are currently implementing a high level of automation and driver support with steering systems. With this increase in automation, a driver can perform additional in-cab tasks during active fieldwork, such as the required documentation, planning, and coordination of work processes.

“Combining the forward-thinking nature of Horsch with Trimble’s cutting-edge autonomous technology creates an opportunity for the companies to develop innovative applications for the OEM and Trimble’s agriculture network. We are building new customer-focused solutions as part of our existing connected farm ecosystem to deliver a unique and compelling solution for our customers—simplifying the complex, logistical and operational challenges of modern agriculture,”

said Finlay Wood, business area director for Trimble Autonomous Solutions.

“The unique opportunity with this collaboration is not that we are presenting a future utopia but that we are moving step-by-step towards autonomy in a pragmatic, consistent manner. We consider automation in agriculture to be one of our next key technologies, and our goal is to ultimately deliver a platform of various applications to help farmers meet the challenges of the future,”

said Theo Leeb, managing director for Horsch.

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Trimble and VayaVision, a LeddarTech Company, announced an alliance that will bring advanced perception technology to the agriculture, construction, and mining markets. The integration of VayaVision’s raw data sensor fusion and perception software platform with Trimble’s existing industry-leading machine control technology can enable intelligent automation in complex work environments. Together, Trimble and VayaVision expect to provide an innovative hardware and software portfolio, improving autonomous machine performance for a variety of industries.

The alliance is focused on advancing data fusion for multi-sensor systems such as LiDAR, cameras, and GNSS. These sensors are used to produce reliable environmental mapping, which is critical for autonomous solutions. The result is expected to enable improvements in the performance of autonomous machines operating in challenging work environments or when supporting safety-critical applications.

Both companies will collaborate to advance autonomous development and adoption with a customizable portfolio that can potentially benefit agriculture, construction, and mining professionals in several ways by:

• Improving operational efficiency, decreasing labor costs, and reducing project timelines
• Helping customers scale their automation efforts—from driver assistance features to fully autonomous solutions
• Offering a flexible, customer-centric approach to product engineering and implementation
• Reducing customer development costs and accelerating time to market with machine automation
• Augmenting or replacing human control to create a safer work environment through path optimization, obstacle avoidance, and situational awareness
• Improving sustainability by optimizing vehicle functionality and utilization with automation to reduce idle time, fuel consumption, and environmental impact

“Our business model is to collaborate with strategic partners to integrate our core technologies into their platform products which, in turn, can be used across multiple end applications. The alliance positions Trimble to deliver a highly capable path planning and autonomous system for the agriculture, construction, and mining industries. Our LeddarVision perception software delivers advanced, flexible, and robust 3D environmental solutions for off-road and passenger car applications today,”

said Youval Nehmadi, director of Perception Engineering of LeddarTech, Israel.

“Trimble has been connecting the physical and digital worlds with our best-in-class automation technologies for more than 20 years—whether it is in agriculture, construction or mining. We see the demand for operator assistance, autonomous machines, and workflow optimization accelerating dramatically and alliances such as this are a critical part of how we will bring added value to our customers in all levels of autonomy,”

said Finlay Wood, business area director for Trimble’s Autonomous Solutions Division.

The BIRD Foundation, a bi-national research and industrial development fund that promotes cooperation between U.S. and Israeli companies, is supporting the alliance. The foundation’s commitment recognizes the value of combining Trimble’s more than 20 years of advanced machine control technology with VayaVision’s leading perception software to advance industrial autonomy.

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Trimble acquired MidStates VRS, a network previously owned by Butler Machinery and Frontier Precision, in September 2020. The addition of the network, located in North and South Dakota, increases the footprint of Trimble’s Virtual Reference Station (VRS) GNSS real-time correction services. Adding 105,000 square miles of coverage, the acquisition expands Trimble’s VRS Now network to be one of the largest in North America—over 1 million square miles. Current customers will have a seamless experience during the ownership transition, and will now receive corrections that are backed by Trimble’s 24/7 advanced network management and customer care teams.

When using the Trimble VRS Now service, land and construction surveyors, GIS professionals, and farmers — with a Trimble or third-party commercial GNSS receiver — can leverage instant high-accuracy corrections delivered via cellular network to improve productivity. Enabling users to work without the hassle of setting up and maintaining a single GNSS base station, the service is cost-effective, simple to use, and ideal for a variety of geospatial, construction, and farming applications that require inch level vertical and sub-inch horizontal accuracy, an important component of the connected construction site and connected farm workflows.

The Benefits

Hardware Costs:

• 50% savings over conventional RTK as VRS only requires a rover receiver and cellular/IP connectivity. No base station investment or maintenance costs.

The efficiency of Deployment:

• Multiple crews can be deployed at one time and work simultaneously.

Productivity Improvements:

• Begin working immediately.
• No need to investigate base station sites.
• Simply Connect – Correct – Measure. It’s that easy!

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Source: Trimble

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