IoT-Driven Smart Agriculture: Security Issues and Authentication Schemes Classification

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a big network that provides interconnections between humans, equipment, sensors, and other systems, to improve the quality of services throughout several domains. Recently, IoT technologies have emerged in the smart agriculture field to automatically monitor and control agricultural lands and enhance production quantity and quality, with the smallest human interference. The integration of this novel concept in smart agriculture ensures efficient, easily usable, and secure solutions for traditional practice challenges; even so, represents a rich area of research issues. Considering that security and privacy are the most important issues in IoT environments, it is critical to consider potential attacks and come up with countermeasures. One of the main processes that secure systems is authentication verifying the identity of any network entity. This paper provides a lightweight analysis of security issues in IoT-enabled smart agriculture, and the several authentication answers being considered.