Smart Village - Intelligent networking for the countryside
IoT projects are usually limited to urban environments and do not take into account the special needs of rural communities. In order to advance digitalization here, solutions are needed that are tailored to a low population density. Be it smart local lighting, temperature measurement on the mountain or the monitoring of water levels and water quality. Distance sensors provide a good response to rising water levels and offer the opportunity to reduce flood damage and save considerable costs. The aim of IoT applications must be to maintain a rural way of life while integrating technology and innovation. Rural communities differ from urban areas not only in terms of use cases. As a rule, several municipalities and therefore authorities are involved - the need for coordination increases. In addition, people in rural areas often identify strongly with their municipality.
The answer is IoT applications based on LoRaWAN wireless technology.The advantage of this technology for transmitting the collected data lies in the minimalist data volumes.It ensures low power consumption and at the same time offers sufficient data protection because only the data that is absolutely necessary is used.LoRaWAN also has an enormous range - in rural areas this can be up to ten kilometers."By positioning the gateways higher up, the municipalities achieve excellent coverage.In addition, roads do not have to be torn up to lay cables in order to put the network into operation.What is needed is a scalable, license-free IoT technology with a wide range of applications such as LoRaWAN and open source software," emphasizes Jan Bose, founder and CEO of Alpha-Omega Technology.
With the "SMARTinfeld" project, our expertise in this area has already been recognized in the "Smart Municipality" category of the "Digital Places in the Land of Ideas 2023" innovation competition.
We offer these and other IoT solutions for smart village projects:
- Intelligent control of street lighting with local lighting
- Road surface temperature measurement
- Soil moisture monitoring
- Water level monitoring
- Transformer station monitoring
When does a Smart Village project pay off for a municipality?
- If there is a lack of human resources
- When an already existing IoT network
- Advancing digitalization with sensor-based automation
- To encourage the influx of young families and skilled workers
- To monitor environmental conditions
- To promote participation within a community by providing an IoT network
