Security and Privacy in Solar Insecticidal Lamps Internet of Things: Requirements and Challenges

Qingsong Zhao, Lei Shu, Kailiang Li, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Ximeng Liu, Yanbin Li

Abstract: Solar insecticidal lamps (SIL) can effectively control pests and reduce the use of pesticides. Combining SIL and Internet of Things (IoT) has formed a new type of agricultural IoT, known as SIL-IoT, which can improve the effectiveness of migratory phototropic pest control. However, since the SIL is connected to the Internet, it is vulnerable to various security issues. These issues can lead to serious consequences, such as tampering with the parameters of SIL, illegally starting and stopping SIL, etc. In this paper, we describe the overall security requirements of SIL-IoT and present an extensive survey of security and privacy solutions for SIL-IoT. We investigate the background and logical architecture of SIL-IoT, discuss SIL-IoT security scenarios, and analyze potential attacks. Starting from the security requirements of SIL-IoT we divide them into six categories, namely privacy, authentication, confidentiality, access control, availability, and integrity. Next, we describe the SIL-IoT privacy and security solutions, as well as the blockchain-based solutions. Based on the current survey, we finally discuss the challenges and future research directions of SIL-IoT.