From Villa Maria exported to China for the field software – La Voz del Interior

Villa Maria. A firm selling Cordoba software and microcomponents another Chinese seem tale, but it is not.

A few days ago, Bit signed with Shandong Changlin Machinery Group (SCMG) the creation of joint venture Qingdao Zhixin Smart Connections. Through this alliance, will provide the Asian market technology for measurement and control variables, via the Internet, in the development of extensive precision agriculture.

By this agreement, the Chinese giant, with 5,200 employees, a plant of 300 hectares and an annual production of 250 thousand machines, will invest $ 10 million and a million sensors installed in six years.

The product is composed of hardware and software> embedded (installed in the hardware ) designed in Argentina. In turn, there is a platform in the “cloud” Internet “talks” to the devices, in some cases gives orders and returns data to the user.

One part is a telemetry equipment for measuring all types of variables such as speed, fuel consumption, grain moisture, among many more. The other is location, which tells where the equipment, how it moves, with a number of like a GPS components, but much more accurate and complete is.

Why Argentina?

The key question is why a company in China goes shopping technology and is decided by the Argentina offer.

The answer is given Horacio Balussi president Bit: “For practicality. The concept of the Chinese is that they are a world factory, but most of their products are designed in other countries. Instead of getting to researching and developing a product of Internet of things for the industry, find it more practical to buy knowledge to another company and make partner “

Bit born in Villa Maria 35 years.; does all kinds of software and since 1990 are focused on applications for agriculture.

The Argentine product was chosen among other options the United States and Australia. “The convinced that we deliver a product in China and also is in other languages, so it is easily adaptable and exportable to any part of the world”, Balussi said.

This technology allows to carry telemetry variable than machinery is making every 5 seconds to a graphical map. They will be installed on tractors in the first year and then expand to seeders, sprayers and later in heavy machinery.