Blockchain Based Smart and Secure Agricultural Monitoring System

Abstract

Nowadays, smart applications are increasing day by day to improve the standard of agriculture in villages. A modern day agriculture is characterised by the presence of numerous smart Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-enabled services such as automated agriculture monitoring, data privacy, among others. Such agriculture monitoring employ multitudes of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to collect and share data between trusted users by means of a centralized intermediary for monitoring and control of the myriad automatic activities. However, a centralized intermediary is plagued by issues such as single point of failure, risk of data loss, man-in-the-middle attack and so forth. Blockchain based smart contracts for automated control in smart agriculture provides a decentralized and secure alternative. With the increasing population across the world, the demand for high-quality products which are fresh as well as healthy is increasing significantly and therefore in a very limited time, the farming and food production have to increase yield significantly. In the coming future, we need to produce double of what we are producing now. There is much research done in the field of smart farming but they don't tackle issues such as storing of data on a central server, complete details of the products from beginning to end which could satisfy a customer as well as stakeholders. In this paper, we presented a novel Blockchain based solutions for secure and smart monitoring of agriculture lands.