Blockchain and Decentralized Identity for AIoT-Based Authentication in Smart Farming and Precision Agriculture

Abstract

By making smart farming and precision agriculture truly revolutionary, the intersection of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and blockchain technology has enabled safe, transparent, and intelligent systems of food production. The major problem in this field is to provide a credible authentication of heterogeneous devices, sensors, and stakeholders and guarantee the integrity and privacy of data. The chapter discusses how blockchain can be implemented together with decentralized identity (DID) systems to provide strong, unaltered authentication systems to AIoT-based agricultural ecosystems. The given approach helps to remove single points of failure, increase accountability, and allow farmers to have a better opportunity to control the ownership and sharing of data by leveraging the distributed ledger technology. Centralized identity promotes cross-agricultural device interoperability, stakeholders in the supply chain, and service providers. The chapter offers a conceptual framework, explains the implementation issues of scalability and energy efficiency.