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A Conceptual Model: Securing Resources Through a Decentralized Access Control Using Blockchain Technology for Smart Farming

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Advances in Visual Informatics (IVIC 2021)

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Securing high number of IoT devices and sensors in smart farming ecosystem became a challenge especially when it comes to access control. Traditional approaches for access control mostly rely on a central authority which is a centralised server that is risky as it possesses a single point of failure and could be compromised with malicious attacks. Hence having a centralised model for access control does not seem to be an ideal solution. Meanwhile, blockchain technology, a decentralised Distributed Ledger Technology potentially can be applied to manage the access control. This study aims to propose a secure decentralised access control model using blockchain technology to secure the resources in smart farming ecosystem with a multi-tenant deployment model.

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This research is fully supported by the National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM) under Short Grant UPNM/2020/GPJP/ICT/4. The authors fully acknowledged UPNM and Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE) for the approved fund, which made this research viable and effective.

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  1. National Defence University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Noor Afiza Mat Razali, Normaizeerah Mohd Noor, Nor Asiakin Hasbullah & Liew Ching Chen

  2. Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia

    Khairul Khalil Ishak

  3. OK Blockchain Center, Nusajaya, Malaysia

    Norlisa Francis Nordin

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Mat Razali, N.A., Mohd Noor, N., Hasbullah, N.A., Chen, L.C., Ishak, K.K., Nordin, N.F. (2021). A Conceptual Model: Securing Resources Through a Decentralized Access Control Using Blockchain Technology for Smart Farming. In: Badioze Zaman, H., et al. Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13051. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90235-3_35

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