Project description
PTO generator for reliable power supply
Agriculture is a big employer in the EU. The farming sector represents an important factor in the EU economy. It relies on constant and reliable power supply. As such, power outages due to extreme weather conditions could have catastrophic consequences. Emergency power generators such as PTO generators or powerpacks cannot be controlled from distance, limiting their responding capacity. The EU-funded Schneeberger project proposes an advanced PTO generator equipped with a proprietary circuit board that can be used in the field. The project intends to develop a mobile application that makes PTO generators smart and synchronous with the IoT system, allowing remote control and quick reaction. The solution will also target community infrastructures such as schools or municipal institutions.
Objective
Farmers and critical community infrastructure depend on constant reliable power supply. In Europe, severe weather
conditions and climate change have led to a surge in power outages. These outages can have devastating consequences.
For instance, if the cooling of a piglet stable lasts more than 30 minutes, the entire stock overheats and dies. Many farms
and critical infrastructure personnel, as a precaution, have installed emergency power generators. These include internal
combustion generators, powerpacks and PTO generators that cannot be controlled remotely. Schneeberger is a pioneer in
PTO generators: it engineered the first PTO generator for the agricultural sector. and carries 21 types of PTO generators.
Farmers and public services simply need to connect the PTO generators to their tractors. Our technology is so advanced
that it allows for our PTO generators to be used in the field as well. We are also the only ones that have equipped PTO
generators with a proprietary circuit board. We want to make PTO generators smart and up-to-date with the IoT trend. We
want to develop a mobile app and an application to review the status on the computer, which allows remote control and a
quick reaction time. Impending regulatory changes as well as a trend towards IoT and ever more severe weather conditions
have motivated us to scale up our PTO generators to make them smart and launch them to various verticals. Traditionally,
PTO generator focused on the farming sector - a potential market of 12.2 million farmers in the EU. And by offering PTO
generators for additional verticals in critical infrastructure (community and municipality institutions, kindergartens, schools,
etc.), we would create the non-farming PTO generator market. Our Schneeberger IoT PTO generators can contribute to a
more sustainable emergency power supply, to a safer power supply, and to a wider adoption of power supply solutions in
critical infrastructures.
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- social sciences sociology governance public services
- engineering and technology environmental engineering ecosystem-based management climatic change mitigation
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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5142 EGGELSBERG
Austria
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