Home // International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, volume 17, numbers 1 and 2, 2024 // View article

Anticipating Future Healthy Food Services in Smart Cities Through Systematic Literature Reviews

Authors:
Anaísa Lucena
Ana Sofia Freitas
António Luís Ferreira
Fernão Vístulo de Abreu

Keywords: personalized nutrition; food services; smart cities; artificial intelligence; NMF

Abstract:
The onset of the fifth industrial revolution promises to reshape industry-consumer dynamics, particularly impacting the food services sector. This study aims to identify emerging research trends in smart cities, food services, personalized nutrition, and artificial intelligence through a systematic literature review. Natural language processing techniques were employed to extract meaningful terms from titles and abstracts, followed by a modified Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) algorithm to categorize the research into distinct topics. The findings reveal a growing interest in the interdisciplinary field, highlighting smart cities’ potential to create seamless connections between consumers, farms, restaurants, and health systems. This connectivity is poised to reduce waste and enable personalized recommendations tailored to individual preferences and health needs. Key factors shaping the future of smart cities include urban mobility, food transportation, dietary monitoring, and waste reduction strategies. Integrating technologies such as blockchain, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning is set to enhance efficiency and connectivity, fostering a more sustainable and consumer-centric food ecosystem.

Pages: 1 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2024. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2024

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679