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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低成本消费技术有助于建设可持续的智慧村庄


最新一期的 IEEE MCE 专门针对智慧村庄。 MCE在过去的多期中都涵盖了智慧城市主题，包括2016年7月、2018年3月。MCE还涵盖了适用于智慧城市的各种技术。在谈到智慧城市的同时，一个明显的问题出现了，智慧乡村呢？这就引发了各种相关问题，包括：智慧城市和智慧乡村相同吗？智慧城市和智慧乡村可以使用同样的技术吗？物联网（IoT）部署不就是智慧城市和智慧乡村吗？智慧城市和智慧乡村的网络物理系统 (CPS) 有何不同？智慧城市和智慧乡村的消费技术（例如传感器和通信技术）有何不同？这些问题需要解决，这激发了当前智慧村庄的主题。本期包括一个关于“如何在消费电子领域进行创新”的专题。