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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2016
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Wentao Yu, Dubuque, IA (US);
Bryan D. Sulzer, Dubuque, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A fleet management control system and method are disclosed for a plurality of work vehicles each having a respective work tool. The work vehicles are associated with an owner and a plurality of operators. The fleet management system includes a source of input data that provides operator identification data for the work vehicles and operator permissions data that indicates at least which of the work vehicles each of the operators is permitted to operate. The fleet management system includes a remote processing system having a processor that receives and processes the operator identification and operator permissions data, outputs fleet management data that includes a fleet operator profile for the work vehicles based on the operator identification and operator permissions data, and communicates the fleet management data to a controller of each of the work vehicles.