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

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 289-319

  Pang, Zhibo ^a,b   Chen, Qiang ^a   Han, Weili ^c   Zheng, Lirong ^a,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Food supply chain; Industrial information integration engineering (IIIE); Information fusion; Internet of things (IoT); Sensor portfolio; Value centric design

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; DATA HANDLING; FOOD SUPPLY; INFORMATION FUSION; SUPPLY CHAINS;

BUSINESS PROSPECTS; BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; DESIGN FRAMEWORKS; FUSION ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); REAL TIME SUPPLY CHAIN; SHELF-LIFE PREDICTION;

INTERNET OF THINGS;

EID: 84925468154     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: 15729419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-012-9374-9     Document Type: Article

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