CroPAiD: Protection of Information in Agriculture Cyber-Physical Systems Using Distributed Storage and Ledger

The agricultural domain has had a significant role throughout history in human societies across the globe. With the fast growth of communication and information systems, the structure of farming procedures has evolved to new modern standards. Although multiple features helped gain from these advancements, there are many current and rising threats to security in the agricultural domain. The present paper gives novel methods and architectural designs and implements distributed ledger through the Tangle platform. Initially, the article discusses the threats and vulnerabilities faced in the farming sector and presents an extensive literature survey, and later conducts an experiment for distributing data through a tangle distributed ledger system. The authors highlight the limitations of central, cloud, and blockchain and suggest mitigation measures through distributed IOTA systems and distributed storage facilities for data and the possible influence these solutions can bring in the aspects of data security in the agricultural sector.