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Australia | Jacob,
In 1996 Beeline (then known as AgSystems) was selling autosteer systems using GPS in Australia when Mike was completing his PhD thesis on this topic. There were also other university projects in other parts of the world prior to Mike's work with Deere. I take nothing away from Mike who is a standout engineer, but he was among the first, not the first.
Mike didn't make anything of commercial suitability until he went to work for Integrinautics as Novariant was known then. Beeline was already well established.
I made a copy of the first check signed by the first customer for $120,000 Aussie (US$100k or so). As far as I can tell this was the first commercially available autosteer system in the world. Prices have come down quite a lot since then. ;)
Sorry for the semantics in my historical note but I thought it may be interesting.
Cheers
John | |
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