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Founded in 1913 in Harsewinkel, Germany, CLAAS is a global leader in agricultural technology, specializing in self-propelled forage harvesters, tractors, and combine harvesters. In addition to its machinery, the company offers a wide range of information technologies.
Fleet malfunctions or breakdowns are time-consuming issues that can be minimized with the CLAAS TELEMATICS app. The app, available for Android and iOS, is the mobile companion to the CLAAS TELEMATICS portal, which provides farmers with all essential operating data through a digital data transmission system.
To optimize the use of each machine, the TELEMATICS app provides an overview of key metrics on work data, tramlines, and yield data.
Status information for each machine equipped with TELEMATICS continuously ensures the trouble-free operation of combine harvesters, forage harvesters, and tractors, helping to reduce downtime.
The CLAAS TELEMATICS team commissioned us to implement the Android and iOS app after we had previously supported their farm management apps team.
Functionally, the TELEMATICS app was intended to be only slightly less capable than the portal in the area of creating field and field boundaries. As in other CLAAS apps, Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS were used for the CLAAS TELEMATICS app. This allowed us to use native UI design and controls while reusing the backend connection between the two platforms.
It was important to CLAAS that both apps felt native while still allowing for a high degree of code reuse. By using Xamarin, we were able to meet this requirement perfectly.
To our delight, the app was so well-received that service technicians also began using the TELEMATICS app for their work on and with the machines. This presented us with the challenge of maintaining consistently high performance, as the app now had to manage 3 to 5 times the original average number of machines.
Thanks to Xamarin's close integration with native Android and iOS APIs, we were able to adapt the app's performance to the new requirements using Xcode Instruments and the Android Studio Profiler.
»TELEMATICS enables farmers and service technicians to keep an overview of the farm and machines and thus make efficient decisions – an essential component in our digitization strategy. Cayas Software developed the TELEMATICS app in close cooperation with us and did a great job, especially in scaling for a large number of users and machines.«
