MPSARB: design of an efficient multiple crop pattern prediction system with secure agriculture-record-storage model via reconfigurable blockchains

Abstract

Smart agriculture has become one of the most popular technologies for farmers due to its simplicity, ease of deployment, high efficiency, and low overheads. But due to an exponential increase in smart-farming data generation, it is necessary to design secure storage interfaces, that can be scaled for multiple farms. Existing storage models either showcase high security, or high storage efficiency, but a very few models enhance both these parameter sets. Such models are highly complex, and reduce the scalability when applied to large-scale scenarios. To overcome these limitations, this text proposes design of a highly efficient and secure agriculture-record-storage model via reconfigurable blockchains. The proposed model initially uses a multiple crop pattern prediction system via Binary Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network (BC CNN), and deploys a single chained Proof-of-Trust (PoT) based blockchain, that is tuned w.r.t. context of the farms. The prediction is done via weather conditions and soil types. This assists in identification of different crop types, and selection of high trust miner nodes, that can preserve privacy during communication and storage operations. As the blockchain is scaled, a Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) based model is deployed, which assists in splitting the underlying chain into multiple sidechains. This split is done based on QoS and Security optimizations, which is estimated via temporal miner performance under different farm types. The GWO Model also assists in estimating long-term and high-capacity storage chains, which can be used for archival operations. Due to which, the proposed model is able to improve mining speed by 9.4%, while reducing the energy consumption by 3.5% for different mining operations. The model also defines an indexing strategy for different shards, which assists in increasing data access speed by 12.8% for long-term data sets. Due to these enhancements, the proposed model is capable of deployment for large-scale scenarios.