Securing Communication of A Wireless Network in An IOT Based Precision Agricultural Farm with New Normal Work Culture.

Abstract

COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization after its breakout in the city Wuhan in China. This disease has negatively affected not only the daily life but also the global economy. In Sri Lanka out of many other fields, agriculture can be considered as one of the important economic fields as well as in the other countries that has been affected by COVID-19. This field face various types of issues. among them, security plays a major role. This security is not in terms of resources or from insects, but in the area of protection of the data that is being transmitted through a wireless network for the farmer to monitor the conditions such as humidity, water level. Now a day’s cyber threats are one of the biggest discussions. Malicious attackers have taken the fully advantage of the COVID-19 situation to launch attacks for their competitive and financial gains. Farmers in modern days use the real time data that they receive through different sensors to get decisions regarding the crops and plants. COVID-19 is a reason we should practice social distancing. Therefore, doing these agriculturally based activities using different technologies without manually involving is also important because of the critical situation. The main objective of this research paper is to identify security threats that can occur in a precision agricultural farm with third party involvements and introduce a security solution.