Abstract

The current issue of the IEEE MCE is dedicated to smart villages. MCE has covered smart cities theme in multiple past issues, including July 2016, March 2018. MCE also covered various technologies applicable smart cities. While covering smart cities, an obvious question arises, what about smart villages? This gives rise to various related questions including: Are smart cities and smart villages same? Can the same technology be used for both smart cities and smart villages? Does not Internet-of-Things (IoT) deployment make both smart cities and smart villages? How Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPS) differ in smart cities and smart villages? How underneath consume technologies, such as sensors and communications technology, differ in smart cities and smart villages? These questions needed addressing which motivated for the current issue theme of smart villages. The issue includes a Special Section on 'How to Make Innovation in Consumer Electronics'.

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