Smart Plant Factory: The Next Generation Indoor Vertical Farms (Hardcover, 2018)

Part Characteristics of current plant factories and next generation plant factory 1. Current Status of Plant Factories with Artificial Lighting (PFALs) and Smart PFALs (Toyoki Kozai) 2. Plant Factories with Artificial Lighting (PFALs): Benefits, Problems and Challenges (Toyoki Kozai) 3. Protocols, issues and potential improvements of current cultivation systems (Na Lu and Shigeharu Shimamura) 4. Design and Control of smart PFAL (Yoshihiro Nakabo) 5. Designing a Cultivation System Module (CSM) Considering the Cost Performance - A Step Towards Smart PFALs - (Toyoki Kozai) Part 2 Recent Outcomes in Development and Business 6. Business planning on Efficiency, Productivity, and Profitability (Kaz Uraisami) 7. Renewable energy makes plant factory "smart" (Kaz Uraisami) 8. Total indoor farming concepts for large scale production (Marc Kreuger, Lianne Meeuws, Gertjan Meeuws) 9. SaibaiX: Production process management system (Shunsuke Sakaguchi) 10. Air distribution and its uniformity (Ying Zhang and Murat Kacira) Part 3 Re-considerations of photosynthesis, LEDs, units and terminology 11. Reconsidering the Fundamental Characteristics of Photosynthesis and LEDs (Toyoki Kozai and Masayuki Nozue) 12. Reconsidering the terminology and units for light and nutrient solution (Toyoki Kozai , Satoru Tsukagoshi and Shunsuke Sakaguchi) Part 4 Advances in Research on LED lighting 13. Usefulness of broadband-spectrum white LEDs to envision future plant factory (Hatsumi Nozue and Masao Gomi) 14. LED lighting technique to control plant growth and morphology(Tomohiro Jishi) 15. The quality and quality shifting of the night interruption light affect the morphogenesis and flowering in floricultural plants (Byoung Ryong Jeong, Yoo Gyeong Park) Part 5 Advanced technologies to be implemented in the smart plant factory 16. Mechanization of Agriculture considering Its Business model (Tamio Tanikawa) 17. Quantifying the environmental and energy benefits of food growth in urban environment (Rebecca Ward, Melanie Jans-Singh and Ruchi Choudhary) 18. Applications for breeding and high-wire tomato production in plant factory (Marc Kreuger, Lianne Meeuws and Gertjan Meeuws) 19. Molecular breeding for plant factory - Strategies and Technology (Richalynn Leong and Daisuke Urano) 20. Production of value-added plants (Shoko Hikosaka) 21. Chemical inquiry into herbal medicines and food additives (Natsuko Kagawa) 22. Detection and utilization of biological rhythms in plant factories (Hirokazu Fukuda, Yusuke Tanigaki, Shogo Moriyuki) 23. Automated characterization of plant growth and flowering dynamics using RGB images (Wei Guo) 24. Towards Nutrient Solution Composition Control in Hydroponic System (Toyoki Kozai, Satoru Tsukagoshi and Syunsuke Sakaguchi) 25. Phenotyping- and AI-based environmental control and breeding for PFAL (Eri Hayashi and Toyoki Kozai) 26. Plant cohort research and its application (Toyoki Kozai, Na Lu, Rikuo Hasegawa, Osamu Nunomura, Tomomi Nozaki, Yumiko Amagai and Eri Hayashi) 27. Concluding remarks (Toyoki Kozai)