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Topic 3. Asset Tracking and Fleet Management Modern agricultural businesses and farms are complex enterprises that need to not only keep track of their diverse assets, but also manage increasingly large fleets of vehicles and mobile machines. Such assets may include (but are not limited to) animal food, fertilisers, seeds, or even living animals, as well as harvests, various kinds of biomass, and other goods. In addition, farming businesses in particular deploy various tractors and other machines that typically come from many different manufacturers. Since assessing the quantity and quality of imported and exported goods manually is growing increasingly difficult and imprecise with the advancing industrialisation of agricultural businesses, the problem of controlling farming materials to be imported or exported needs to be addressed by precise, yet robust sensing solutions. To estimate, account for, and optimise the costs of diverse vehicle fleets, hardware and software systems both have to be tailored to interface with real-life everyday agricultural operations. The collection and analysis of aggregated data from various sources allow for not only precise accounting, but the generation of insights and opportunities for effective optimisation, as well.