IEEE Smart Village is a humanitarian program within IEEE that funds village-scale energy, education, and enterprise worldwide. The Technology Committee is one of its functional subcommittees — the place where volunteers coordinate open engineering work in support of Supported Projects. This knowledge base is for documentation and support work from the Technology Committee: meeting notes, standards references, and initiative tracking. See About ISV for more context of the rest of the team. For the full ISV program — news, applications, and general material — visit smartvillage.ieee.org ↗.
Primary endeavor · Tech Comm 2026
Village Metering
Bill each home, cut off non-payers, catch stolen power — without city-scale AMI cost. Overview · Village scope · TC2.0 review.
Tech Comm volunteers and advisors; field partners and open-tool contributors. New volunteers: complete the ISV volunteer form ↗, note your interest in the Technology Committee, and a chair will follow up with onboarding.
Join virtual committee meetings twice monthly — 7:30 am Pacific (8:00 pm India; see WhatsApp ↗ for invites), pick up work on Tasks, attend hackathons and conferences, and review Supported Projects to spot new engineering needs.
Technology Committee initiatives
Open engineering by the Technology Committee — a subcommittee of IEEE Smart Village — not seed-funded field deployments
Volunteer engineering threads — open standards, gateways, and field tooling. Stable map infrastructure is listed separately below.
IEEE Smart Village integrates sustainable electricity, education, and entrepreneurial solutions to empower off-grid communities worldwide — bringing advanced technology for energy, communications, water, and sanitation to the village.
Every ISV field program addresses at least two of three pillars: Energy (solar-based electricity and micro-utilities), Education (digital classrooms, vocational training, SECI-based adult learning), and Entrepreneurship (community-owned energy businesses). These align with UN SDGs 7, 4, and 8.
The Technology Committee maintains this wiki. The rest of IEEE Smart Village is organized into regional working groups (first contact for applicants) and other functional subcommittees (project evaluation, finance, membership, and more). Volunteer signup ↗
Regional working groups
- North America — Joan Kerr
- Latin America — Mario De La Ossa
- Africa — Abiodun Okunola
- China
- South Asia — Sasi Kottayil
Subcommittees
- Technology (this wiki)
- Education · Finance · Fund Development
- Marketing · Membership · Operations
- Project Development (PDC)
- Safety, Quality, Reliability & Standards (SafetyQRS)
These are IEEE Smart Village deployments — in-country NGO and entrepreneur partners running solar micro-utilities under ISV tranche-based agreements. They are not Technology Committee initiatives; Tech Comm volunteers may provide engineering help when a program asks. For general ISV material — applications, news, and the rest of the program — visit smartvillage.ieee.org ↗.
Project videos from the ISV Vimeo channel.
Many field sites use ISV-designed hardware — the SunBlazer community charging station and Portable Battery Kit (PBK). Specs on the Tech Committee Linktree.
Village relevant
Phase 1–2 village mini-grid: rural DC architecture, microgrid controllers, prepaid metering, field buses, inverter models at the pole, ISV spatial schema. Do not score these as utility bulk-power interconnection.
DERControl resources. OpenAMI MQTT reporting aligns to SunSpec JSON — the common payload pole EMS gateways translate toward regardless of Modbus RTU over RS-485, CAN, or RF underneath. Read full deep-dive →Larger grid integration
Utility interconnection, transmission IBR, large-load sites, aggregator demand response, and PKI — Roadmap Phase 3. Do not compare these to village prepaid meters or LV feeder AMI without saying so.
main and GitHub Actions deploys static HTML in about a minute. No wiki server to run; follow-ups use GitHub Issues on the same repo. See README for clone, preview, and PR workflow. To request collaborator access on GitHub, email Tech Comm Chair Adam Sauer at [email protected].Follow-ups are GitHub Issues on this repo. Browse and filter here; click any task to open it on GitHub.
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Tech Comm meets virtually twice monthly at 7:30 am Pacific (8:00 pm India). Join the WhatsApp group ↗ for meeting links.
- Per-home billing — know kWh per customer; prepaid credit and token delivery
- Remote disconnect — shut off non-payers without truck rolls
- Theft & leakage — illegal taps, unmetered load, feeder faults
- Affordable hardware — legacy meters at $600–$1,500 can exceed generation cost
- Comms that survive rural links — tokens and keypads when the pole uplink is down
Full problem → stack map (SteamaCo · SparkMeter · EnAccess · OpenAMI): Village Metering · Overview.
Indexed summaries here; full documents on Cottonspace, external publishers, or in this wiki. Dev Labs reports sync live from openami-smart-village; ISV and external entries come from technical-notes/catalog.json. Each report shows source · authorship · review badges — see key below.