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Auto-Guide Companion

Auto-Guide Companion is a hand-held mapping product that adds additional timesaving features to your Auto-Guide System, and introduces you to the potential benefits of Site-Specific Farming.

A unique addition to compliment Auto-Guide and the Auto-Guide terminal, Companion is a software program designed for the HP iPAQ hand-held Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). 

 

 


It works with Auto-Guide to provide even more capabilities like: visual mapping on-the-go - see your place in the field, leave marks in the field, select individual local base stations where multiple base stations are used, as well as log NMEA data.
Auto-Guide Companion is transferable between machines.

The main features of Auto-Guide companion include:

Mapping Features:

  • Records path traveled to generate "Area Covered" maps
  • Records field boundaries and calculates acreage
  • Records individual points
  • Data can be saved as Mapinfo Interchange Files (.mif) or ArcView Shape Files (Point, Path, or Boundaries)

Guidance Wayline Features:

  • Recall the wayline currently used by Auto-Guide
  • Create or change Waylines in the field
  • Save multiple waylines for each field
  • Share waylines between multiple machines in a field
  • Beam waylines to other Pocket PCs, or save them on your Office PC
    Guidance Local Base Station Features:
  • Select between multiple Local Base Stations
  • Retrieve the current Base Station from the machine
  • Add new Base Stations as simply as entering the Serial Number

Features & Benefits

Waylines
A wayline is the line generated between to reference points A & B.

Wayline Offsets
Wayline offsets are useful if the machine is working near a fence or obstacle with an incomplete implement width pass.

Implements & Offsets
Since a number of implements are used throughout the growing season, an implement width entry is a necessity.

 


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