UTILIZATION OF SATELLITE MONITORING FOR DETERMINATION OF OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE INTERVAL OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES

Standard component of today's modern mobile machinery in general is GPS/GPRS technology. Situation in agricultural sector is similar and most of current machinery is equipped with a lot of electronic devices for measuring all kind of parameters. GPS/GPRS technology allows us to monitor a number of operational parameters of mobile machinery in real time. Collected data obtained from the operation can be used for decision-making of maintenance activities. To ensure machinery it is important to determine the optimal maintenance interval. The authors propose new method for using data from satellite monitoring. Furthermore, authors designed algorithm using the criterial function in order to determine the optimal interval for performing preventive maintenance.