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Deere Construction & Forestry, Qualcomm in Remote Machine Monitoring Alliance

John Deere’s Construction & Forestry group, and Qualcomm Inc. have announced an alliance to create an equipment and machine monitoring and information delivery system that will be sold across North America by certified John Deere construction and forestry dealers. Beginning in the fall of 2006, customers can order factory- or dealer-installed JDLink on select John Deere construction and forestry equipment.

In announcing the alliance, the companies said JDLink automatically collects, transmits and manages information about where and how construction and forestry equipment is being used, as well as machine health data. The system uses Qualcomm's GlobalTRACS equipment management system to provide information about equipment location, machine health and service status. Additionally, it issues special alerts to notify customers if equipment moves outside pre-set boundaries.

Four levels of service will be offered with JDLink. The Standard level will provide owners with machine location status, machine service hours and location monitoring capabilities. The Advanced level of service will provide customers with the standard level, plus dash indicators and fuel and equipment utilization information via engine load monitoring.

The Ultimate level of service expands upon these offerings by adding current and stored monitoring of component pressures and temperatures, fuel consumption, as well as transmission gear selection and full-featured diagnostic information retrieval. The Direct level enables customers to download machine operating history and diagnostics directly to a laptop. The Advanced, Ultimate and Direct levels of service will be available in 2007 on select models of John Deere construction and forestry equipment; the Standard level of service will be available in the fall of 2006.