Smart Village: An IoT Based Digital Transformation

TL;DR

This paper discusses how IoT-based digital transformation can enhance rural areas by improving agriculture, health, and education, emphasizing the need for secure, low-cost solutions and analyzing communication technologies.

Contribution

It identifies key IoT application areas in smart villages and provides a comparative analysis of communication technologies for rural digital ecosystems.

Findings

Identified main application areas for IoT in smart villages

Compared various communication technologies for rural IoT deployment

Highlighted opportunities for low-cost, secure digital solutions

Abstract

Almost 46% of the world's population resides in a rural landscape. Smart villages, alongside smart cities, are in need of time for future economic growth, improved agriculture, better health, and education. The smart village is a concept that improves the traditional rural aspects with the help of digital transformation. The smart village is built up using heterogeneous digital technologies pillared around the Internet-of-Thing (IoT). There exist many opportunities in research to design a low-cost, secure, and efficient technical ecosystem. This article identifies the key application areas, where the IoT can be applied in the smart village. The article also presents a comparative study of communication technology options.