Phased autonomy adoption creates a critical operational bottleneck: managing a mixed fleet of new autonomous harvesters and legacy tractors with retrofit kits. A custom orchestration workflow automates the unified tasking and scheduling of this heterogeneous fleet, eliminating the manual coordination and siloed operations that waste machine hours and supervisor time. The business value comes from maximizing the utilization of all assets—autonomous and legacy—extending the ROI of existing equipment while scaling autonomy. This requires a flexible adapter framework to handle diverse communication protocols like ISOBUS, LoRa, and cellular telemetry from kits.




