Simulation Based Performance Evaluation of FIWARE IoT Platform for Smart Agriculture.

In the domain of smart agriculture there is a growing demand for the development and implementation of robotics and Internt of Things (IoT) solutions. Using robots and autonomous vehicles such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for increasingly complex tasks requires coordinating robotic operations taking into account other robots doing complementary tasks. Using IoT platforms for adding intelligence to cooperation and coordination is a lucrative possibility. Performance constraints limit the tasks in which co-operation can be used. Information latency is a key factor for moving autonomous robots in many cases. Using the FIWARE IoT platform for information integration offers the flexibility of combining cloud-based AI analysis with robot operations, however it comes with the cost of increased latency. The messaging frequency that is dependent on the number of parallel robots, as well as their configuration, affects the overall latency of the IoT system. We present the composition of latency in the FIWARE IoT system and its limit in a practical deployment scenario.