Access Agriculture
The internet of things connects billions of devices to the internet and involves the use of billions of data points, all of which need to be secured. Due to its expanded attack surface,IoT securityandIoT privacyare cited as major concerns. In agriculture, IoT-basedsmart farmingsystems can help monitor, for instance, light, temperature, humidity and soil moisture of crop fields using connected sensors. In the consumer segment, for example, smart homes that are equipped with smart thermostats, smart appliances and connected heating, lighting and electronic devices can be controlled remotely via computers and smartphones. Moisture sensors planted throughout the nut groves keep track of what is going on in the soil. They send their results to a computer in the cloud (the network of servers that does an increasing amount of the world’s heavy-duty computing) to be crunched. The results are passed back to the farm’s irrigation system—a grid of drip tapes that are filled by pumps. Dairy fa