Smart Forestry

What would it mean to you to always know the smartest route to the timber, with the least impact on the forest and far away from flooded areas? Prepare the next day's work at home so that the correct information is available at the start of the workday. Or would it be possible to allow a maintenance technician to connect to your machine remotely to assist you?

Smart Forestry offers access to a range of digital services that help make the workplace safe, intelligent, productive, and sustainable, whether you have one or a hundred forestry machines. You can monitor your machines, collaborate with colleagues, and make wise decisions based on facts.

Smart Forestry consists of three different applications, making it easy to find the one that best suits you and your business.

Smart Forestry

Fleet Monitoring
Vision
Precision

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Smart Forestry Fleet Monitoring

Plan to achieve better results.

Fleet Monitoring opens up new possibilities for preparing and planning the work tasks of harvesters and forwarders. Since the service is cloud-based, you can plan your work wherever you want and use any device with internet access. It is possible to register identities, products, areas, maps, GIS (geographic information system) data, and other important information. This ensures that the operator has the correct information before even starting work, and having the right information also minimizes the risk of errors and unnecessary direction.

All the machine's information gathered in one place

Fleet Monitoring gathers all machine information about your fleet and continuously provides information about each specific machine. You can view the usage, operational status, and exact geographic location of all machines. This requires no extra work from the operator, as all data is recorded and saved automatically. It's easy to compare fuel consumption and production, and the stored operating and production data is easy to record, reducing the monthly workload of accounting.

Remote interaction and support

Fleet Monitoring offers remote access to many practical functions: Check the battery status, monitor the temperature in the cabin, or turn on the diesel heater. Access to remote support, which allows Komatsu Forest specialists to connect to your machine, offers added peace of mind. You can even allow a technician to remotely control the machine, troubleshoot problems, and update settings and software. This minimizes downtime and saves time and money — primarily by avoiding costly service call expenses. In addition, technicians can also offer remote training.

Smart Forestry Vision

Share information quickly and easily

With Vision, it's easy to share information with each other. The harvester operator can plan suitable access routes, machine waypoints, and cutting areas based on the conditions of the work site. The forwarder operator can view production in each work zone and optimize the transfer to avoid unnecessary deviations. After the wood is transported to the cutting area, the operator can mark the zone as completed, simplifying the following steps. The functions for marking specific areas and boundaries on the map and for writing messages allow the team to help each other do a better job. In addition, it is also possible to share information with other teams or companies. All information is updated in real time.

Efficient and low-impact work

Vision helps you work more efficiently and with less impact on the forest. You get area maps with up-to-date information. You can plan the skidding based on the harvester's crawlers, saving time, diesel, and protecting the environment. You get a good overview and reliable production data that makes it easy to adjust your planning as needed. The map functions also make it easy to send an easy-to-understand final report as soon as an area is completed.

Smart Forestry Precision

Precise positioning helps you in your work.

Precision uses the latest satellite positioning technology to determine the machine's position with a margin of error of only a few centimeters. This opens up possibilities for a productive and intelligent way of working in which you, as an operator, obtain important information and support to make wise decisions.

You can create digital boundaries around your workspace or protected areas and receive warnings if the machine gets too close to the boundary. Thanks to the high precision, the machine crawlers and log codes can be clearly visualized, and you can also show the exact position of the processed logs, making it easy to see which variety is in the log pile. When planning thinning routes, line following with navigation support is a great help, as it helps you stay on the planned route.

It's also important that the user experience be as smooth and intuitive as possible, so there are many opportunities to customize the look and feel.