Smart agriculture is the goal. Smart machinery is how you get there.

These are two levels of the same story. Smart agriculture is the whole connected-farming system — sensors, data, decisions. Smart agricultural machinery is the hardware that actually walks the field and flies the field. One is the vision; the other is what you can buy today.

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JT-80 agricultural spray drone working low over a crop field

Air and groundTwo layers, one field · Xuzhou, China

How the Two Fit Together

A parent topic and its sub-topic

Smart machinery is a sub-topic of smart agriculture — the execution layer. Everything in the wider system depends on machines that can hold a line, cover ground and report back.

Precision navigation, now covered in full

The ground layer deserves its own page: what ±2.5 cm RTK actually changes across tillage, planting and spraying, what ships in the kit, and the one scope point buyers most often get wrong.

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The System

Four building blocks of smart agriculture

Most of what gets labelled smart agriculture comes down to these four layers. We build the first two.

Layer	What it does	Typical equipment
Precision positioning	Centimetre-level fieldwork — tillage, seeding, fertilising, spraying	Tractor auto-steering (GNSS + RTK)
Aerial sensing & application	Spraying, spreading, mapping, crop scouting	Agricultural drones (crop protection, seeding)
Ground sensing	Real-time soil, weather and crop data	IoT sensors, weather stations
AI decision layer	Prescription maps, forecasting, fleet scheduling	Farm management platforms, cloud algorithms

Jitian Intelligent supplies the precision positioning and aerial application layers — the two that carry the clearest, fastest payback. The sensing and AI layers integrate with the platforms you already use.

Roadmap

From assisted driving to unmanned fleets

Where the industry is, and where we are taking it.

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1 · Assisted Driving — shipping today

RTK auto-steering that holds centimetre-level lines. The HD818 retrofit kit puts assisted driving onto the tractors you already own.

2 · Autonomous Work — shipping today

Single-machine unmanned operations. The JT-80 handles crop protection and seeding from the air with route planning and multi-aircraft coordination.

3 · Fully Unmanned Fleets — in development

Air-ground robot fleets with vision, laser and millimetre-wave sensing, making their own decisions. Our strategic direction, not a shipping product.

Stages one and two are available to order today. Stage three — autonomous robot fleets — is a development roadmap item. We do not sell it as a finished product.

Why Air-Ground

The drone reaches what the tractor cannot. The tractor holds what the drone cannot.

Drones solve "out of reach"Spraying and scouting over wet fields, terraces, orchards and tall crops where ground machines cannot travel without damage.
Auto-steering solves "not precise enough"Centimetre-level passes for tillage, seeding and fertilising — less overlap, less skip, less waste.
Data closes the loopAerial scouting feeds prescription maps; the tractor and drone execute them. Every completed job makes the next prescription sharper.
One supplier, one document setBoth machines come from the same plant on the same supply chain — one contact, one shipment, one set of export paperwork.