Radio frequency energy harvesting system and the utilization of blockchain technologies in agriculture

Abstract

Modern agriculture and livestock breeding look for sustainable models that improve the efficiency of their ecosystem, while providing a secure and privacy-preserving IoT ecosystem. Multi-collected and heterogeneous data coming from crops, livestock, or even better from mixed farming systems that are coupled with AI capabilities is a promising approach that enhances agriculture systems. Such technologies aim at transforming farmers everyday live, promising accessibility, personalization and precision to the users, but they also suffer from significant issues. In particular, security, integrity and auditability have been major issues that need to be addressed, and one way of dealing with the aforementioned is by using Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), such as blockchain.