Satellite Technology Utilization for Rural and Urban India

Idea under the title

Rural Empowerment Using Present Day Technologies

Presentation Towards
Mission Eureka
- A Vision to reach the last mile

SANKETA 09 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering S.R.K.R. Engineering College, Bhimavaram.

Authored By
M Ravi Chandra III/IV ECE Regd No:06631A0429 ravichandra429@gmail.com Ph: +91 9966998666 T Venkateswarlu III/IV ECE Regd No:06631A0455 venkat_22330@yahoo.co.in Ph: +91 9491357632

Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering SRI VENKATESWARA ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Amaravadhi Nagar, Suryapet-508213, Dist: Nalgonda.

ABSTRACT:
Communication capabilities in various forms provided by the modern spacecraft are bridging the gap between modernized cities and backward rural villages. The remote sensing satellites are equally helping rural India by providing useful information to increase farm yield, fish catching and also helping to save lot of lives by disaster warning and weather forecasting. This idea describes the utilization of the satellite technology in various forms for Indian masses particularly rural India.

INTRODUCTION:
The society having a better and quicker means of communications is considered to be an advanced and forward looking society. Most of our countrys population in the past was not served

by the telephone and television networks that so greatly influence cities and western societies.
There is a great influence of present day fast evolving technologies particularly the digital techniques on the development of the society. It includes present day computers and Satellite Communication. Present day technological tools support and complement each other to complete the total communication scenario. Satellites are perceived largely as a means to reach isolated places. Because of the

broadcasting nature of the satellites, a signal sent up to the satellite comes down everywhere over a wide area, thus providing connectivity to the inaccessible parts of the country. Satellites bring the television to the homes even in remote villages. Television is an extremely powerful medium for education, literacy rate in rural areas can be improved through tele-education services based on satellite technology. Being a tropical country with long coast line, natural disasters often knock at the country and the rural people are often the victims. Terrestrial links and transport systems cripple very often. Satellites come to the rescue in such events for disaster management, which requires real time decision making and action. The introduction of space communication and the present era of information technology has changed the current scenario and we have seen the third technological revolution (information + communication = Information Technology) in the last decade of the last century. The present era is called the IT era. The technological evolutions which have taken place in the last century are simply beyond one's imagination. Many technological reversals have been seen, like the telephone which should have been on the wired network has become wireless while the TV which was wireless, works on cable. Many individual spheres of working have become almost universal, like education has come to the drawing room from school and colleges, sectors like banking, medicines, hospitals etc which were location specific are available on net. With the development of space technology, time and distance have lost their conventional meaning, thereby permitting men and women all over the world to share their experiences, frustrations and successes with great ease. Sophisticated and expensive medical treatment has been made reachable to those underprivileged societies living in inaccessible parts of India through telemedicine project conceived with satellite technology. In a nutshell, the present day world has become a global village and thereby we are in a shrinking globe and expanding universe. There is tremendous convergence and fusion of communications, computers and associated technology in the present era. Space communication technology takes all this technological advancement to the rural areas which are backbone of Indian democracy.