Although the population is concentrating in major metropolitan areas, the population decline is not stopping, and it is said that the number of “cities at risk for disappearing,” whose continued existence is doubtful, has risen to half of the municipalities in the entire country.
When key agricultural and fishing industries decline due to the lack of successors and other reasons, the dynamism of the entire local society is lost, which invites the decline of services for daily life, and magnifies the regional disparity between urban and rural areas more and more.
In these circumstances, it is desirable to utilize AI and IoT in order to implement “smart” farming, among others, and revitalize industries that support rural areas.
In this corner, we are exhibiting cutting-edge technology, such as IoT and robots, that will be useful for eliminating the regional disparity between urban and rural areas.