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 are adopted by the farmers in rural areas.
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 cheaper and reliable. The data collected is huge. The BigData processing for decision making is becoming a huge task. Where the Artificial Intelligence based on the empirical data, learning models and belief systems are being developed. Although initially, the decision support systems could be discrete, over a period there is a need to integrate the systems for aggregate decision making.
Working hard with smartness empowers people and communities towards sustainable development.