Value-centric design of the internet-of-things solution for food supply chain: Value creation, sensor portfolio and information fusion

Zhibo Pang (), Qiang Chen (), Weili Han () and Lirong Zheng ()
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Zhibo Pang: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Qiang Chen: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Weili Han: Fudan University
Lirong Zheng: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Information Systems Frontiers, 2015, vol. 17, issue 2, No 5, 289-319

Abstract: Abstract The revolution of Internet-of-Things (IoT) is reshaping the modern food supply chains with promising business prospects. To be successful in practice, the IoT solutions should create “income-centric” values beyond the conventional “traceability-centric” values. To accomplish what we promised to users, sensor portfolios and information fusion must correspond to the new requirements introduced by this income-centric value creation. In this paper, we propose a value-centric business-technology joint design framework. Based on it the income-centric added-values including shelf life prediction, sales premium, precision agriculture, and reduction of assurance cost are identified and assessed. Then corresponding sensor portfolios are developed and implemented. Three-tier information fusion architecture is proposed as well as examples about acceleration data processing, self-learning shelf life prediction and real-time supply chain re-planning. The feasibilities of the proposed design framework and solution have been confirmed by the field trials and an implemented prototype system.

Keywords: Internet-of-things (IoT); Food supply chain; Value-centric design; Sensor portfolio; Information fusion; Industrial information integration engineering (IIIE) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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