Abstract
The benefits of using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in urban agriculture are discussed, along with the necessity of introducing information and communication technology (ICT). The incorporation of ICT into urban agriculture is now economically viable because the marginal costs of information processing, storage, and transfer are approaching zero. Electricity generated from renewable resources such as solar energy and biomass is also becoming cost-competitive with that generated from fossil fuel and nuclear power. Internet-connected plant factories lit with LEDs and greenhouses with LED supplemental lighting will serve as key components in urban agriculture. The potential for combined applications of ICT, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things in urban agriculture is described briefly. Finally, the concept of closed plant production system (CPPS) and its application in plant factory with LED lighting are described.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
References
De Gelder A, Dieleman JA, Bot GPA, Marcelis LFM (2012) An overview of climate and crop yield in closed greenhouses. J HortScience Biotech 87(3):193–202
Despommier D (2010) The vertical farm: feeding the world in the 21st century. St Martin’s Press, New York, 336 pp
Harper C, Siller M (2015) Open AG: a globally distributed network of food computing. Pervasive Comput 14(4):24–27
International Renewable Energy Agency (2015) Renewable power generation costs in 2014, 162 pp
Kozai T (2013) Resource use efficiency of closed plant production system with artificial light: concept, estimation and application to plant factory. Proc Jpn Acad Ser B 89(10):447–461
Kozai T, Niu G, Takagaki M (eds) (2015) Plant factory: an indoor vertical farming system for efficient quality food production. Academic, London, 423 pp
Lopez RG, Runkle ES (2016) Managing light in controlled-environment agriculture. Meister Media Worldwide, Ohio, USA, (in press)
Massa G, Norrie J (2015) LEDs electrifying horticultural science: proceedings from the 2014 Colloquium and Workshop. HortSci 50(9):1272–1273
Rifkin J (2015) The zero marginal cost society: the internet of things, the collaborative commons, and the eclipse of capitalism. St. Martin’s Griffin, New York, 368 pp
Takakura T, Son JE (2004) Simulation of biological and environmental processes. Kyushu University Press, Fukuoka, 139 pp
US Department of Energy (2011) Solid-state lighting research and development: multi year program plan (Fig. 3.4), 130 pp
Wetterstrand K (2011) DNA sequencing costs: data from the NHGRI (Human Genome Research Institute) large-scale genome sequencing program. http://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts
Yabuki K (2004) Photosynthetic rate and dynamic environment. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 126 pp
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Kozai, T. (2016). Why LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture?. In: Kozai, T., Fujiwara, K., Runkle, E. (eds) LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1848-0_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1848-0_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-1846-6
Online ISBN: 978-981-10-1848-0
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life SciencesBiomedical and Life Sciences (R0)