Industry 4.0 is a promising evolution in the field of smart farming by improving the productivity and reducing human intervention to modernize agriculture. This smart paradigm incorporates different levels of the automation from cropping to production yield through sophisticated techniques. Different intelligent computing techniques and communication technologies are augmented with the industry paradigm for improving the efficiency of agriculture systems. This letter introduces information scheduling and optimization framework (ISOF) for optimizing the communication and information layer process in industry 4.0 architecture. Information scheduling and classification of agriculture information are optimized through this framework for reducing process latency and stagnancy. The control flexibility of a smart farm is determined using the latency and stagnancy at the end of yields. The classification part segregates information based on processing and completion time to reduce backlogs through offloading process. The advantage of this framework is that it inherits the advantages of Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing (EC) technologies with interoperable feature to aid information processing, information classification, offloading, and periodic updates. The performance of the proposed framework is tested in a corn farm and some common metrics, such as delayed information, processing time, audit data, and information distribution, are analyzed for proving the reliability of the framework.

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ISOF：工业 4.0 辅助下提高农业系统绩效的信息调度和优化框架


工业4.0是智能农业领域的一次有前途的演变，它通过提高生产力和减少人为干预来实现农业现代化。这种智能范式通过复杂的技术整合了从种植到产量的不同级别的自动化。不同的智能计算技术和通信技术通过行业范式得到增强，以提高农业系统的效率。这封信介绍了信息调度和优化框架（ISOF），用于优化工业4.0架构中的通信和信息层流程。通过该框架优化农业信息的信息调度和分类，以减少流程延迟和停滞。智能农场的控制灵活性是通过产量结束时的延迟和停滞来确定的。分类部分根据处理和完成时间来分离信息，以通过卸载过程减少积压。该框架的优点是继承了物联网（IoT）和边缘计算（EC）技术的优点，具有互操作性，有助于信息处理、信息分类、卸载和定期更新。所提出的框架的性能在玉米农场进行了测试，并分析了一些常见指标，例如延迟信息、处理时间、审计数据和信息分布，以证明该框架的可靠性。