Fieldbot has pioneered a new dynamic torque management capability.
Valley X-Tec constant-move technology is based on Fieldbot’s earliest assigned U.S. Patent No. 6,755,362, which expired in 2021. Fieldbot’s next-generation constant-move technology, embodied in its subsequently assigned U.S. Patent No. 10,130,054 and U.S. Patent No. 10,165,741, represents a substantially more advanced and novel architecture engineered for universal compatibility, rapid installation and redeployment, and software-defined control across the global installed base of mixed-fleet, electrically driven irrigation pivots.
Valley X-Tec offers a comparable 10× increase in irrigation-pivot speed, but with four critical distinctions. The Valley X-Tec 343: (1) is difficult to install, remove, and redeploy when renting ground or rotating crops; (2) uses non-networked architecture, with no communication between wheel towers and no CPU-based full-system software control; (3) is limited to compatible Valley irrigation pivots, constraining its addressable market to Valley’s portion of the installed base; and (4) is limited to fields with varied terrains of less than 5% slope.
In contrast, patented Fieldbot UltraCore™ Precision Upgrades powered by patented UltraFast™ Constant Move technology employ an easy-to-install, remove, and redeploy plug-and-play design with networked architecture in which every wheel tower communicates with every other wheel tower for proprietary CPU-based full-system software control.
Each patented Motor Optimization Controller (MOC) can also be installed at ground level on the lower base beam of its irrigation pivot wheel tower—enabling fast, convenient installation, maintenance, removal, and redeployment across existing mixed-fleet, electrically driven irrigation pivots.
The Fieldbot platform is designed to upgrade virtually any brand, make, and model of electrically driven irrigation pivot—opening the entire global installed base to a common technology platform.
Fieldbot further eliminates the less-than-5% slope limitation through software-defined dynamic torque management (patent pending), enabling UltraFast™ Constant Move across substantially more varied terrain.
These distinctions are commercially significant.
Irrigated farming operations of all sizes often run mixed fleets of irrigation pivots from multiple manufacturers, and large irrigated fields are rarely uniformly flat. An ultra-high-speed technology constrained by OEM-specific compatibility and limited ability to operate on sloping terrain can therefore address only a small fraction of the global installed base and irrigated acreage.
Valley X-Tec is fundamentally an OEM-specific ultra-high-speed drive solution.
Fieldbot UltraCore™ is built on an entirely different architecture: a non-invasive, brand-agnostic, networked, software-defined precision upgrades platform engineered for universal system compatibility, ease of use, and rapid deployment across the installed base of mixed-fleet, electrically driven irrigation pivots.
The distinction is not simply which system can move an irrigation pivot faster.
It is how efficiently and at scale the installed base can be transformed and, more importantly, what that transformed infrastructure can ultimately become.
Valley X-Tec validates speed.
Fieldbot turns that speed into a scalable Physical AI infrastructure layer for continuously advancing increasingly capable, self-improving agronomic intelligence and autonomous crop management.