Harvesters, buses and mining machines are becoming rolling computers. The hardware inside them has to last decades. Yet the AI running on top of it changes every quarter. Ralf Kapahnke from Tria Technologies and Frank Neelen from Avnet Silica discuss where the CAV CAV (Commercial and Agricultural Vehicles) market is heading. Cameras that spot-treat pesticide or milking robots that turn farmers into a roboticists, are just two use cases we cover. And the decision facing every OEM: solder the processor onto your own board, or fit a module. #CAV #embedded #functionalsafety #agritech #edgeai #iot #wetalkiot Summary of this week’s episode: 01:30 What CAV means 03:20 Why AI and connectivity change the requirements 04:10 Functional safety: when a tractor meets a human being 06:30 Talking to your machine: LLMs moving from cloud to chip 07:15 AI-driven autonomy, from drone irrigation to predictive maintenance 09:00 Spot-treating pesticide with camera-based systems 10:45 Autonomous milking robots 13:30 Beyond agriculture: street cleaning, buses and people counting 15:20 Mining: robots underground 16:30 What keeps developers awake — and why software now leads hardware 19:00 What chip-down actually means 20:30 The module case: less risk, faster time to market 23:00 Where scalability pays off for an OEM 24:00 Volume, ARM versus x86, and the OSM trend 26:30 Modularity as a business strategy Show notes: Ralf Kapahnke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralf-kapahnke-a713b912b/ Frank Neelen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-neelen-93008376/ Tria Technologies — commercial and agricultural vehicles: https://www.tria-technologies.com/commercial-agricultural-vehicles/ The episode with AGCO Fendt is called “From the cab to the cloud: How AGCO Fendt is making smart farming real”: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/podcast/episode-86-agco-fendt-makes-smart-farming-real/ Listen to the “We Talk IoT” Soundtrack on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05MOV4OV2MH2in2txsAGtG?si=ad08112cb8d443f4 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NvQ6VJYtE&list=PLLqgVFfZhDRVYmpEqbgajzDvGL4kACRDp About Avnet Silica: This podcast is brought to you by Avnet Silica — the Engineers of Evolution. Subscribe to our newsletters here: https://my.avnet.com/silica/resources/newsletter/ You can connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silica-an-avnet-company/. Or find us at www.avnet-silica.com.

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