The Impact of Network Capacity on Quality of Communication Infrastructure for Intelligent Agriculture

The technological drafts and systems belonging to intelligent agriculture category are based on the utilization of information and communication technologies. On 25 November 2015, Regulation (EU) 2015/2021 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down measures concerning access to the open internet access came into force. This Regulation aims to establish common rules to safeguard equal and nondiscriminatory treatment of traffic in the measures of internet access services and related end-user's rights. Open internet access (network neutrality) is the foundation for Intelligent Agriculture services. Based on the general mathematical model of the access network and practical experiences from real network traffic it turns out that to the current method need to add the measurement of qualitative parameters according to ITU-T Y.1564 standard. The results of this complex method allow to indicate an insufficient capacity of the distribution network and other anomalies in the access network which could do a creation of discrepancy or even an unavailability of internet access service, respectively intelligent agriculture service. The article is focused the issue of the impact of QoS parameters on the compliance with network neutrality.