Paper Info
Title
An IoT-based E-business model of intelligent vegetable greenhouses and its key operations management issues
Abstract
The widespread popularization of Internet has brought about various Internet-based business models as well as well-known Internet giants such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Alibaba. Similarly, the application of internet of things (IoT) is fermenting IoT-based business models in various fields. In our work, we present an IoT-based e-business model of intelligent vegetable greenhouses with details on the basic process and key nodes of the e-business model. Information, capital and logistics flows are recognized in the industry chain consisting of ingredient suppliers, IoT-equipped greenhouses, IoT-based e-business platforms, payment and delivery service providers, and end consumers. The value chain is also analyzed according to Michael Porter's value chain model, which is helpful for greenhouses to focus on main activities in the business model. Moreover, we recognize key operation issues including big-data-driven pricing, planting structure and time optimization, water and fertilizer integrated control, plant light supplement, and order-driven picking and packing. The characteristics brought about by IoT techniques to these operation issues are analyzed, and corresponding mathematical models are formulated, which may attract more efforts in the future.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s00521-019-04123-x
NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Intelligent vegetable greenhouses,Internet of things,E-business model,IoT-based e-business platforms,Industry and value chains,Operations management
Journal
32.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP19
0941-0643
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
21
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junhu Ruan121.72
Xiangpei Hu210.70
Xuexi Huo310.70
Yan Shi428527.64
Felix T. S. Chan51267113.20
Xuping Wang632.07
Gunasekaran Manogaran765934.70
George Mastorakis839848.56
Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis9847.76
Xiaofeng Zhao1081.47