How to Create Vibrant Smart Villages in the World

Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka

How to Create Vibrant Smart Villages in the World

For a Sustainable Future

Copyright © 2019 by Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka

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Contents

Preface

I. NATURAL

Water Management

Soil Management

Recycle and reuse

Spatial Knowledge

Weather and Climate Change

II. PHYSICAL

Greenhouse and polytunnel

Vertical Garden

Hydroponics

Floatigation

Sewagigation

Rootigation and Sapigation

LED Crops

Urban integrated farms

Services

Living Habitats

Smart storage systems

Non-conventional and renewable energy

III. HUMAN

IT enabled decision support

Learning

Rural services

IV. FINANCIAL

Institutional support

V. SOCIAL

Health services

Healthy Kitchens by Farmers

VI. INNOVATIVE INITIATIVES

School Labs as facilitating hubs

References

Preface

Smart village is the most decentralized system which would empower people to efficiently use various services and systems. Enable communities to address the challenges in their respective occupations and daily life. Accessing and using technologies in their respective work makes a person smart.

Farmers are the main stakeholders in the villages, who manage their livelihoods through mitigation, adaptation or through traditional sustainable practices. Several technologies developed in recent times were also adopted by the farmers in rural areas. Farmer tries all means and experiments to reduce the vulnerability.

In a smart village, people use technologies, adopt practices, do networking, use communication technologies and are innovative. The smartness will reduce the hard-work of farmers and have a better chance to reduce vulnerabilities in the present scenario.

With increased mobile smartphones usage and access to cheap broadband internet connectivity, there are many possibilities for smart monitoring and management of things. The people have access to information and are also able to communicate across.

Especially in the farming sector, the factors and the associated uncertainties are more. The decision making is based on the controlled and uncontrolled factors. Understanding the uncontrolled factors using technologies is the smartness.

The monitoring systems are becoming