Urban Vertical Farming with IoT and Precision Monitoring for a Sustainable Future

The fast expansion of population worldwide and urbanisation had been estimated to have 80 % of the population in urban areas in the upcoming 50 years leads to an exponential rise in demand of food. These needs provide an urgent call for developing novel approaches to achieve global food demands amid sustainability problems. Urban Vertical Farming (UVF) offers an attractive solution for growing crops in the vertical dimension of structures, the urban skyscrapers, where land use is limited. However, it is fairly limited research which applies the current state of art in cutting edge technologies such as the Internet of Things, to try to automate and monitor farm processing. Thus, in this review paper, gaps in existing research, the potential for IoT enabled vertical farming, as well as challenges such as energy use, economic feasibility and urban policy integration are examined. Vertical farming can be enhanced through resource efficiency, scalability and level of sustainability through the use of IoT systems and AI driven data analytics which will also help promote urban food security. The research gives a summary of the current state, technological capabilities, and potential way forward in the process of successful vertical farming implementation in urban sets.