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Equipment monitoring and information system

John Deere Construction & Forestry has teamed with Qualcomm Incorporated to create an equipment and machine monitoring and information delivery system.

JDLink automatically collects, transmits and manages information about where and how construction and forestry equipment is being used, as well as critical machine health data.

The system uses Qualcomm’s GlobalTRACS equipment management system to provide customers with information about equipment location, machine health and service status. Additionally, it issues special alerts to notify customers if equipment moves outside pre-set boundaries.

Four levels of service will be offered with JDLink. The Standard level will provide owners with machine location status, machine service hours and location monitoring capabilities. The Advanced level of service adds dash indicators and fuel and equipment utilization information. The Ultimate level adds current and stored monitoring of component pressures and temperatures, fuel consumption, as well as transmission gear selection and full-featured diagnostic information retrieval. The Direct level enables customers to download machine operating history and diagnostics directly to a laptop.