Long-range real-time monitoring strategy for Precision Irrigation in urban and rural farming in society 5.0

Abstract

Urbanization is the biggest challenge as by 2050 it is projected that more the 60% of the world population will inhabit cities. This will present stress to the available city’s resources like transportation, health system, economy including agricultural products importantly safe food supply. For these concerns, advanced solutions are required with a human-centric approach for sustain- able development. Society 5.0, smart cities, and urban agriculture are the latest concepts with the objective of sustainable development. Most of the article on smart cities fails to put focus on different aspects, objectives, and importance of urban agriculture. This article disclosed various aspects and objectives of Society 5.0, a smart city, and the concept and importance of urban agriculture. Agriculture other than facing the challenge of huge urbanization also faces inefficient utilization of scarce resources with inefficient agricultural practices particularly irrigation water. The present article discloses the importance of efficient agricultural resource utilization particularly irrigation water and provides a design for Precision Irrigation for field monitoring. The discussed design offers a Long Range, Real-Time, and scalable solution for field irrigation requirement monitoring based on soil and weather conditions and addresses most of the challenges facing in-field monitoring such as range coverage of sensor nodes and scalability, data recording, power, and cost.