Fusion of IoT and Blockchain (BIoT): A Novel Architecture for Smart Agriculture
摘要
Internet of Things (IoT) plays a crucial role in automating systems, offering effectual and reliable services with minimal human intervention. To be precise, IoT-enabled smart agriculture is a vital factor in the modern digital world which ensures to provide various functionalities such as—water level monitoring, temperature monitoring, moisture sensing, and plant growth tracking. These functionalities of smart agriculture significantly simplify the work of farmers. But on the contrary, several security and privacy-related concerns were identified such as critical agriculture field data storage and management. Therefore, the evolution of integration of the IoT and blockchain (BIoT) came into the limelight. BIoT-based smart agriculture can enhance efficiency, sustainability, etc., leading to increased productivity, improved resource management, and secure data storing management in a decentralized manner. In this paper, we propose an architecture for a smart agriculture ecosystem based on the fusion of both IoT and blockchain. Primarily, our proposed architecture consists of three stages, PEGASIS-based chain construction phase, mutual authentication and key agreement phase, and blockchain-based data storage in base-station phase. Finally, this paper highlights on security analysis of our proposed architecture and found that it is well-secured against broadly known security attacks.