A Systematic Literature Review of Smart Rural

Abstract

There are many problems and challenges in developing rural areas. This includes poverty and social isolation. Meanwhile, interest in the concept of smart cities has increased in recent years, as reflected in the number of studies published in academic journals. In contrast to smart cities, smartization in rural areas has received only scarce attention, despite the beneficial effect that the transformation of rural areas could have for society. Even though smart cities and smart rural face different issues, we can adopt smart city solutions to smart rural. Furthermore, we need to rethink the impact of technology and the overall idea of becoming “smart” in this context. To answer these problems, this study conducted a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) related to smart rural. According to the research results, smart rural is sustainable development in rural areas which was developed with a potential specialization approach and the use of technology. This study also finds that there are still few models, frameworks, or architectures for smart rural areas. Most research has created a model, framework, or architecture for smart cities. With this fact, research on developing models, frameworks, or architectures of smart rural is still open for further research