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US 2012/0259537 A1Published application
Moving Geofence for Machine Tracking in Agriculture
AssigneeAGCO Corporation
InventorsLee A. Schmidt, Lorenz Riegger
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Abstract
An agricultural vehicle tracking system provides a moving geofence about the location of a vehicle. When the moving geofence contacts a point of interest, such as another moving geofence, an alert is issued. The particular characteristics of the moving geofence may be generated in accordance with a predetermined scheme.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- generating a moving geofence for a vehicle using vehicle location information;
- and
- determining whether the moving geofence contacts a point of interest.
A moving geofence apparatus, comprising:
- a moving geofence generator configured to generate a moving geofence for a vehicle using vehicle location information;
- and
- a moving geofence determinator configured to determine whether the moving geofence contacts a point of interest.
The moving geofence apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:
- a communication device configured to receive vehicle location information and provide the vehicle location information to the moving geofence generator for generating the moving geofence.
A moving geofence system, comprising:
- a location determination system for determining the location information for a vehicle;
- and
- a moving geofence apparatus configured to generate a moving geofence for the vehicle using the location information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.