Smart and Sustainable Technologies: Rural and Tribal Development Using IoT and Cloud Computing

This book presents a collection of peer-reviewed best selected research papers presented at the First International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (ICSST 2021), organized by Department of ECE, GIET University, Gunupur, Rayagada, Odisha, India, during December 16–18, 2021. The proceedings of the conference have a special focus on the developments of local tribe and rural people using smart and sustainable technologies. It is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators as well as NGO workers who are working in the area of web engineering, IoT and cloud computing, Internet of Everything, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and intelligent robotics, particularly for the rural and tribal development.

Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. in Engineering on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India, in 1999 and supervised 25 Ph. D. theses and more than 60 master theses in the area of computational intelligence, soft computing applications and re-engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is Author of 2 textbooks and 52 edited volumes and few invited chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc. Dr. Patnaik is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published by Inderscience Publishing House, England, and also Editor-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published by Springer, Germany, Book Series on Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE), and Book Series on Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practices (AMTCP), published by IGI-Global, USA. He is Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering, published by Korean Institute of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering. He is also Associate Editor of International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems (IJGCRSIS) published by Inderscience Publishing House, England.  

Dr. Vipul Jain is working in the area of operations and supply chain management at Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has also worked as French Government Researcher for the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control at Nancy, France, and was also involved in the European project I*PROMS (Innovative Production Machines and Systems) from the UK. Vipul has more than 85 archival publications to his credit in high impact factor journals, as well as conference papers and chapters, is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, and Editorial Board Member for seven international journals. Vipul is ranked 7th in India in a list of top 20 Indian leading academicians publishing in the area of logistics and supply chain management in an exhaustive study entitled “Analysis of the Logistics research in India- white paper (2012), pp.1-11” conducted by researchers from Institute of Transport Logistics, Dortmund University, Institute for Supply Chain and Network Management, Technische Universität Darmstadt, and University of Münster, Germany. Vipul is involved as Scientific and Advisory Committee Member for various international conferences. He was Program Coordinator for the Masters in Industrial Engineering Program at IIT Delhi and has been actively involved in conducting Management Development Programs/Training Programs for Senior Managers and Executives of Public and Private Organizations in India on various issues and challenges encountered in operations, logistics, and supply chain management.