Attachment management system for managing attachment information unique to attachment coupled to work vehicle

An attachment management system, comprising:

• a work vehicle including a vehicle storage, a vehicle receiver, and a vehicle controller;
• a plurality of attachments each detachably coupled to the work vehicle;
• and
• a plurality of communication tags, each of which is interchangeably fixed to one of the plurality of attachments, and includes:
• a tag transceiver to communicate with the vehicle receiver through a beacon signal that is compliant with a near field communication standard;
• and
• a tag memory to store a piece of combined information including a tag identifier unique to one of the plurality of communication tags and attachment information unique to one of the plurality of attachments, to which the one of the plurality of communication tags is fixed;
• wherein
• the vehicle storage is operable to store a plurality of pieces of combined information, each of which includes one of the tag identifiers and one piece of attachment information linked thereto, the plurality of pieces of combined information obtained through the beacon signals which the vehicle receiver has received from the tag transceivers of the plurality of communication tags;
• and
• the vehicle controller is configured or programmed to, at a timing when or after one of the plurality of attachments is selected:
• determine either i) that one of the plurality of communication tags that has been interchangeably fixed to the selected one of the plurality of attachments is replaced with another one of the plurality of communication tags, or ii) that the tag memory of one of the plurality of communication tags is overwritten with another piece of attachment information other than the one piece of attachment information unique to the selected one of the plurality of attachments, when the one piece of attachment information linked to one of the tag identifiers, which are obtained through one of the beacon signals received by the vehicle receiver, does not match with the one piece of attachment information linked to the one of the tag identifiers stored in the vehicle storage as one of the plurality of pieces of combined information,
• control the vehicle storage to store a new piece of combined information containing the one of the tag identifiers and the one piece of attachment information linked thereto, in one of the beacon signals which the vehicle receiver is receiving from one of the tag transceivers of the plurality of communication tags, and
• perform a predetermined operation based on the one piece of attachment information of the new piece of combined information.

An attachment management system, comprising:

• a work vehicle including a vehicle storage, a vehicle receiver, and a vehicle controller;
• an attachment detachably coupled to the work vehicle containing a communication tag which includes:
• a tag transceiver to communicate with the vehicle receiver through a beacon signal that is compliant with a near field communication standard, and
• a tag memory to store a tag identifier unique to the communication tag and attachment information unique to the attachment;
• wherein
• the vehicle storage stores at least one piece of combined information including the tag identifier and attachment information linked thereto, the at least one piece of combined information obtained through the beacon signal which the vehicle receiver has received from the tag transceiver of the communication tag, and
• the vehicle controller is configured or programmed to, when the tag memory of the communication tag is overwritten with attachment information unique to another attachment, such that at least either one of the tag identifier and attachment information in the beacon signal which the vehicle receiver is receiving from the tag transceiver, does not match with the tag identifier and attachment information stored in the vehicle storage as the at least one piece of combined information,
• control the vehicle storage to store a new piece of combined information including the tag identifier and attachment information linked thereto in the beacon signal which the vehicle receiver is receiving from the tag transceiver, and
• perform a predetermined operation based on attachment information of the new piece of combined information.

An attachment management system, comprising:

• a work vehicle including a vehicle storage, a vehicle receiver, and a vehicle controller;
• a plurality of attachments each detachably coupled to the work vehicle and containing a communication tag which includes:
• a tag transceiver to communicate with the vehicle receiver through a beacon signal that is compliant with a near field communication standard;
• and
• a tag memory to store a piece of combined information including a tag identifier unique to the communication tag and attachment information unique to one of the plurality of attachments;
• wherein
• the vehicle storage is operable to store a plurality of pieces of combined information, each of which includes the tag identifier of the tag memory of one of the plurality of attachments and one piece of attachment information linked thereto, the plurality of pieces of combined information obtained through the beacon signals which the vehicle receiver has received from the tag transceiver of the plurality of attachments;
• and
• the vehicle controller is configured or programmed to, at a timing when or after one of the plurality of attachments is selected:
• determine that the tag memory of the communication tag of the one of the plurality of attachments is overwritten with another piece of attachment information other than the one piece of attachment information unique to the selected one of the plurality of attachments, when the one piece of attachment information linked to one of the tag identifier of the tag memory of one of the plurality of attachments, which are obtained through one of the beacon signals received by the vehicle receiver, does not match with the one piece of attachment information linked to the tag identifier of the one of the plurality of attachments stored in the vehicle storage as one of the plurality of pieces of combined information,
• control the vehicle storage to store a new piece of combined information containing the tag identifier of the selected one of the plurality of attachments and the one piece of attachment information linked thereto, in one of the beacon signals which the vehicle receiver is receiving from the tag transceiver of one of the plurality of attachments, and
• perform a predetermined operation based on the one piece of attachment information of the new piece of combined information.