Forestry 4.0 – An Overview of Authentication in the Internet of Things

Today’s Internet of Things, a federation of emerging Internet-based technologies, enables connectivity, security, scalability, and functionality of a shared network. Its primary mission is to interconnect multifarious Things to enable service and information identification as well as exchange between each stakeholder at eye level. Numerous practical and academic examples have confirmed that the Internet of Things can be applied to various fields and specific areas of knowledge or expertise, such as smart home, smart city, and health care. Forestry 4.0 refers to a proposed framework to promote intelligence in current forestry activities, such as forest management, production and logistics, as well as the use of the Internet of Things to digitalize value chains. As connected IoT devices increase in numbers and complexity, considering security evolves inevitably. This paper provides an overview of the status of IoT security, especially regarding authentication. We also present the vision of challenges (a) and issues related to authentication in today’s Forestry 4.0.