A Research Project of Society 5.0 in Kitakyushu, Japan
Masaaki Nagahara · 2019 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) · 2019
Society 5.0 is the next-generation society, proposed in the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan by the Cabinet Office in Japan. Society 5.0 is technologically defined as a system of systems (SoS), where many systems (e.g. energy management systems, road transport systems, etc.) are connected through the Internet to achieve some global requirements (e.g. reducing carbon emissions). In this article, we will review the concept of Society 5.0 and key technologies for Society 5.0. We then introduce a research project of Society 5.0 in Kitakyushu, Japan. The project team includes not only engineering researchers but also an economist, a social scientist, engineers from industry, and people from government. In this article, I will point out difficulties, which we may always face in a big project, based on my experiences in our collaborative research project.