Bringing WiFi into your Cab – the new AyrMesh Cab Hub

There’s a lot of data being collected by monitors in the cabs of tractors, sprayers, and combines, and getting that data someplace it can be used can be critical to your operation. Today we are introducing a way to connect your tractors, sprayers, combines, and trucks to your AyrMesh Network: the AyrMesh Cab Hub.

The AyrMesh Cab Hub is a combination of three things: our trusty, patent-pending AyrMesh Hub2n, a cable that allows the Hub to be powered from a normal 12 volt utility “cigarette lighter” plug, and an external magnetic-mount antenna to get the Hub’s antenna outside and up in the clear.

When it is all set up, the AyrMesh Hub2n rides inside the cab of your vehicle, protected from shock and vibration, but mounted where you can see the “signal lights” if you need to. The cable is plugged into one of the 12v utility outlets, and the antenna is put on a ferrous surface on top of the cab. The Hub connects to the other Hubs in your AyrMesh network, giving you WiFi connectivity in your cab.

The most valuable data on the farm, and some of the hardest data to move to where it can be effectively used, are the data trapped in the monitors on your machines: as-seeded, as-applied, and harvest data. Getting that data out has been laborious (moving Compact Flash cards) or expensive and uncertain (using cellular links), so we’re trying to make it easier with the AyrMesh Cab Hub.

By using the AyrMesh Cab Hub, you’ll have a strong WiFi signal in your Cab whenever you’re in range of one of your other AyrMesh Hubs – up to 2.5 miles away. This means you can use your smartphone, tablet, or laptop from the cab of your tractor, sprayer, combine, or truck. It also makes it easy to transfer data from your WiFi-equipped in-cab monitors, like an AgLeader monitor with their AgFinity adapter, using your AyrMesh network. If your equipment doesn’t currently have WiFi, talk to your dealer about it – vendors are rolling out new products all the time.

If your monitor supports WiFi data transfer, you can use your AyrMesh network to transfer data from your monitor without having to rely on expensive and unreliable cellular links.

Please let us know what you think of this new product from Ayrstone Productivity!

2 thoughts on “Bringing WiFi into your Cab – the new AyrMesh Cab Hub

  1. Jon Bakehouse

    I can connect directly to my home network using AgFiniti but can’t access files, folders, or transfer files anywhere except to AgLeader’s cloud. As far as I can tell, AgLeader only uses my network to get to their cloud storage with no option to do otherwise. Am I missing something?

    Reply
    1. Bill Moffitt – President of Ayrstone Productivity
      billmoffitt Post author

      Jon, unfortunately, you’re not. The AgFiniti only works with the AgLeader terminal. That’s the advantage of the Ayrstone AyrMesh solution: an AyrMesh Cab Hub (or even stationary Hubs on your farm) can connect to the AgFiniti so it can move its data to AgLeader’s cloud, and it can simultaneously connect to your smartphone or tablet so you can move other kinds of data around, as well as connecting to other standard WiFi devices. Because it uses standard (WiFi) technology, it’s extremely flexible.

      Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.