Value of Information Analysis in the Smart Agriculture Scenario using Wireless Internet of Things

The trend of Internet of Things development in the agriculture sector has led a high demand towards advanced technological settings with high efficiency and effectiveness. Often, the constructed sensor network suffers from excessive energy consumption due to the existence of collisions, and/or redundant data transmissions (time and space redundancy). In recent years, researchers have been trying to resolve this phenomenon by introducing a new quantitative metric, named Value of Information, which determines how valuable a generated information is. We want to make sure that the cost we spend for transmitting a packet corresponds to the value of the information that a packet submitted. In this thesis, we analyze such a metric from the agriculture point of view. Practical applications of this rationale include the reduction of update frequency by sensor considering the cost and network models that consider the transmissions of valuable packet only. These problems are evaluated through numerical simulation, in practical implementation contexts of a Lora network in real plantation and from a general perspective of future implementation.