Smart City Playbook
Environment & Agriculture
Usecases
Smart Farming Solutions
The Smart Farming Solutions initiative includes a set of agricultural assistive technologies that are promising to reduce waste, improve productivity, and enable management of a greater number of resources. Given its scarce resources, Al Madinah city needs to leverage smart farming solutions such as hydroponics, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, ground robots and automated farming technologies tailored for small scale production, eventually maximizing efficiency and minimizing costs for producers. The city can also leverage drones to monitor large areas and spray plants and crops. These drones use GPS and follow automatic routes to spray pesticides in farms. A suite of IoT sensors can be leveraged to monitor humidity and temperature and control the level of water required, thus reducing unnecessary consumption. Hydroponic promises also to foster the utilization of additional land that might have been deemed unusable before. All these technologies would operate together to boost productivity while also cutting waste of resources.