Check in each week to get updates on our John Deere Field Connect weather station as we collect and analyze data. We will post updates on weather events, discus water levels in the soil profile, and demonstrate how to interpret the different graphs from the Field Connect website and cell phone app.

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Alerts

To help you monitor the Field Connect remotely, you can set up alerts to be sent to you by text or email.  The alert can be triggered by your budget lines, hardware issues, or temperature thresholds.
The alerts can be found at the bottom of the graph.  Here you can see the demo probe was below the refill point for a while and then crossed the full point so alerts were triggered.

The alerts are managed in the admin tab.  Here you set up who will get the alert, how they will receive it, and what type of alerts you want to receive.

We set up all of our Field Connects to alert us when there are hardware issues, such as low battery or missed calls, as well as when the budget lines are crossed so we can check in with our customers.  Our customers can set theirs up to be notified of hardware, water, temperature, or custom triggers.  The picture below shows a custom trigger we set up to notify us when we get more than a half inch of rain at the demo site.

As always, if you have any interest or questions regarding John Deere Field Connects, we encourage you to contact one of Tractor Central's Integrated Solutions Specialists by calling any of our stores or use the contact form on the right side of this page.