Bosch has many tendrils in agriculture, both hard(ware) and soft. Now it’s come up with Nevonex – a fresh digital ecosystem, designed to connect and smarten equipment
Electronics in farm machinery have grown like Topsy; fast and without an obvious creator. Predictably, the result is a real mix of systems, some of which talk to each other and some that don’t. So the mighty Bosch – whose products already form the core of many farming control systems – has set its mind to sorting things out. Not on its own, but together with academics and market players like Amazone, Lemken, Rauch and Topcon. The result is Nevonex.
The concept borrows from the personal computing and smartphone world, where one set of companies make hardware (desktops, laptops, mobiles), a second set makes operating systems (MacOS, Windows, iOS, Android) and a third set of firms and individuals develops apps to run under one or more operating systems. Of course the divisions are not that clear-cut, but you get the picture. The whole thing builds into a
platform, ecosystem or framework – take your pick – like the MacOS, Windows and Linux. All give their users a fairly consistent experience across a slew of different apps.
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