Patent ID: 8918475

Claim:
A non-transient, computer-readable medium containing program instructions for causing a computer to perform the method of managing an agricultural device, comprising: connecting the agricultural device to a network; collecting operational data relating to the agricultural device; granting an access right in respect of the collected operational data to a second agricultural device connected to the network; receiving operational data from the second agricultural device in response to the access right; and managing the agricultural device on the basis of the collected operational data of the agricultural device and the operation data from the second agricultural device, further comprising: defining a benchmark for the agricultural device from operational data of at least the second agricultural device; comparing the operational data of the agricultural device with the benchmark; defining a setting of the agricultural device based on the collected operational data of the agricultural device and the operational data of the second agricultural device; and transmitting the defined setting via the network to the at least one of the agricultural device and the second agricultural device; wherein the agricultural device comprises a milking device.