Public Food Project - Framework for Public Food Network for Smart Cities

摘要

This paper provides the Public Food Network framework for smart cities. Smart cities paradigm is a kind of answer to increased human density in urban areas, while the Public Food Network framework is a kind of improvement of urban gardening. The framework is based on the idea that city governments have to enable growing fruit and vegetables in public areas so citizens could take fruits and vegetables for free. City governments do not have to invest much money to achieve this goal. The provided framework is based on artificial intelligence that takes care of plants irrigation and plant disease control. Public Food Nodes that are the basis of the provided framework are based on Internet of Things technologies and standards The project concerning the provided framework is in the early development phase, but the most significant value of this project is the idea of free food growing for citizens based on AI and IoT technologies with minimum servicing. Technology development makes this idea feasible and free public food stops being a subject of sociological analysis and becomes a technical problem.