System and method for control and audit of chemical products application made by vehicles

METHOD FOR CONTROL AND AUDIT OF CHEMICAL PRODUCTS APPLICATION MADE BY VEHICLES characterized by comprising the following steps

• step (101), starts by a pre-processing routine to initialize the application variables;
• step (102), inform which plots the chemical product application was supposed to be done;
• next, the system will load, from the desktop web application (4) to the application (1) through the internet (3), each plot polygon area, based on previously georeferenced imported files;
• step (103), load the application's sprays polygons from the GPS input files (6), the raw GPS log files, of the embedded GPS in the vehicle, is acquired from the GPS device by using a flash drive directly connected to the device's USB port and the user must use the export function of the GPS embed system to copy the files to the flash drive and after that the user upload the GPS input files (6) to the application (1) from the desktop web application (4);
• step (104), load from the GPS input files (6) the chemical product application and traveled path;
• step (105), collect the information about company, pilot/driver information;
• step (106), load, into memory for the financial report, the list provided by the user containing each applied product, dosage and costs;
• step (107), start processing the application report (7) with all needed information collected from the desktop web application (4) by the user and loaded into memory at the application (1);
• step (108), read, from the GPS input files (6), the application beginning/ending date and time;
• step (109), load, from the GPS input files (6), the application's average spray width;
• step (110), calculate the vehicle traveled distance by the traveled path from the GPS input file (6);
• step (111), calculate the chemical product application's average speed based on the GPS input file (6);
• step (112), generates, a new polygon based on the union between all the applied plots informed by the user that is the supposed goal target area for the application and all next calculations are done based on this resulting polygon;
• step (113), calculate the area in hectares for the resulting polygon from step (112);
• step (114), generates a new polygon resulting by the union between all chemical product application sprays;
• step (115), calculate the area of the resulting application spray polygon;
• step (116), calculate the resulting polygon for the overlap application spray areas;
• step (117), calculate the resulting polygon of no application area;
• step (118), calculate the successfully applied polygon;
• step (119), calculate the external application polygon;
• step (120), generate the financial report;
• step (121), process the final report (7);
• step (122), save the final report (7) into the application database (2);
• step (123), generate a new identification hash code and a QRCode based on this hash code for the report (7);
• step (124), save all the resulting calculated polygons into application database (2) files in the server's file system;
• and finally
• step (125), save the final calculated information in the application database (2).

SYSTEM FOR CONTROL AND AUDIT OF CHEMICAL PRODUCTS APPLICATION MADE BY VEHICLES characterized by the system comprises

• a web server running an application (1), this web server also provides file system storage for the application;
• a database application (2) responsible for all the information used in this application, this database server can be running inside the same physical server (1) or in another one;
• an internet (3) communication method between the application (1) cloud environment and its end users;
• desktop computers (4) or mobile devices (5) running web browsers to access the application (1), in this desktop (4) or mobile devices (5) access it is possible to upload the GPS collected (6) files containing all the information necessary to control the vehicle (9-12) and generate the final application report (7) through the vehicle control unit (8) that connects with the desktop (4) or mobile devices (5) by a remote communication system protocol;
• a vehicle control unit (8) embedded in the vehicle (9-12) responsible by the navigation of this vehicle and the control of the chemical product application, and uses the GPS device information to guarantee its geolocation and pathway that is real time informed to the application (1) that monitor and adjust the vehicle position and pathway and the chemical product application procedure based in the data provided by the user;
• GPS device from where GPS files (6) are collected by the vehicle control unit (8), it may be generated by GPS embedded into agricultural aircrafts (9), boats (10), tractors (11) or drones (12), these files are used as input data for generating the final application reports (7) and to guide the vehicle control unit in the vehicle pathway;
• where the final product of this system is the final application report (7), which contains all detailed information about how much product was applied and in which areas (plots) on the ground, the financial information about the relation between products/dosage/costs for this application, the success rate for the application, and the report information's are:
• property name, pilot, aircraft, total costs, success costs, application's beginning/ending date and time, average application speed, application spray width, total traveled distance, total plots area, total application area, external application costs, application rate, overlap area, success area, external area, not covered area and success rate;
• wherein the system process starts at step (301), the user, from desktop computers (4) or mobile devices (5), must access the application (1) URL of the web system and provide his credentials (e-mail address and password) to login to the system;
• the system will then check, step (302), for the credentials and provide access in case it has been successfully validated or deny access backing to the previous step;
• inside the web system, step (303), the user must register his chemical product application provider companies and its pilots/drivers;
• the user, step (304), must register the georeferenced parameters of his farm properties or area where the chemical product will be applied detailing which plots the chemical product application have to be done, the system will load, from the desktop web application (4) to the application (1) through the internet (3), each plot polygon area, based on previously georeferenced imported files;
• the user, step (305), must register the list of each chemical product to be applied, dosage, spray width and rate, and costs;
• the application (1), step (306), calculates the chemical product application vehicle (9-12) pathway and its average speed;
• the application (1), step (307), sets the vehicle control unit (8) with the chemical product application parameters such application pathway, average speed, dosage, spray width and rate;
• after all the chemical product application parameters be set the vehicle (9-12) is ready to begin the application, step (308);
• once initiated the product application, step (309), the application (1) monitor the GPS (6) information, by a pre-configured time, and, with this information, compare the vehicle (9-12) position with the application pathway calculated in the step (306);
• if, step (310), the vehicle is going in the correct pathway, the vehicle (9-12) maintain its way, otherwise, the application (1), step (311), send a command to the vehicle control unit (8) to correct the application pathway;
• based on the GPS (6) information, in the step (312), the application (1) compare the chemical product application parameters that are being sprayed with the pre-set parameters from step (307);
• if, step (313), the applications parameters that are being sprayed are not in accordance with the parameters established on step (307), the application (1), in the step (314), will correct the application parameters to the parameters from step (307), otherwise, will continue with the application;
• finally, in the step (315), the application (1) compare the GPS (6) position information and check if the application pathway arrived to the end position;
• if, step (316), the end position was achieved, the chemical product application is stopped and the vehicle (9-12) returns to the base, step (317), and the application (1) process the steps (101) to (126) to generates the application report (7), otherwise, continue with the chemical product application.

METHOD FOR CONTROL AND AUDIT OF CHEMICAL PRODUCTS APPLICATION MADE BY VEHICLES characterized by comprising the following steps

• step (301), access the application (1) URL of the web system and provide user credentials (e-mail address and password) to login to the system from desktop computers (4) or mobile devices (5);
• step (302), check for the user credentials and provide access in case it has been successfully validated or deny access backing to the previous step;
• step (303), register the chemical product application provider companies and its pilots/drivers;
• step (304), register the georeferenced parameters of user farm properties or area where the chemical product will be applied detailing which plots the chemical product application have to be done, the system will load, from the desktop web application (4) to the application (1) through the internet (3), each plot polygon area, based on previously georeferenced imported files;
• step (305), register the user list of each chemical product to be applied, dosage, spray width and rate, and costs;
• step (306), calculates the chemical product application vehicle (9-12) pathway and its average speed;
• step (307), sets the vehicle control unit (8) with the chemical product application parameters such application pathway, average speed, dosage, spray width and rate;
• step (308), begin the chemical product application;
• step (309), monitor the GPS (6) information, by a pre-configured time, and, with this information, compare the vehicle (9-12) position with the application pathway calculated in the step (306);
• step (310), if the vehicle is going in the correct pathway, the vehicle (9-12) maintain its way, otherwise, the application (1), step (311), send a command to the vehicle control unit (8) to correct the application pathway;
• step (312), compare the chemical product application parameters that are being sprayed with the pre-set parameters based on the GPS (6) information from step (307);
• step (313), if the applications parameters that are being sprayed are not in accordance with the parameters established on step (307), the application (1), in the step (314), will correct the application parameters to the parameters from step (307), otherwise, will continue with the chemical product application;
• step (315), compare the GPS (6) position information and check if the application pathway arrived to the end position;
• step (316), if the end position was not achieved, continue with the chemical product application backing to step (309);
• otherwise
• step (317), stop the chemical product application and returns the vehicle (9-12) to the base, and process the steps (101) to (126) to generate the application report (7).