Establishing a secure connection between an IoT module for Smart Agriculture via the Amazon Cloud

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has made its place very quickly in different sectors including agriculture due to its versatility. Years back, farmers used to base themselves on their own experience to detect any issues or diseases in their farm and as such take corrective actions. Farmers having many tasks besides monitoring each and every crop can greatly benefit from IoT. Nevertheless, a shift from traditional farming to smart farming requires the use of devices such as sensors, global positioning system, internet and so on, in order to collect, process, monitor and store data. Such IoT devices being connected to the Internet is susceptible to be hacked by attackers. Thus, securing the access to the IoT module used in greenhouses is important. The data transferred between the greenhouse and the cloud server should also be secured. It is proposed to use the Amazon IoT platform for connecting to the IoT module and securing the access to the IoT module by means of an authentication mechanism.