Farmers’ cybersecurity
Switzerland’s WISeKey International Holding Ltd and Indian Potash Limited (IPL) will cooperate to create cybersecurity for 140 million Indian farmers.
Announced in Delhi at the India Economic Summit on Oct 5, 2016, their cooperation will create a WISeKey technology based cybersecurity ecosystem to enable 140 million farmers (WISeFarmers) to tune into digital economy and IoT using the WISeKey Platform from WISeKey India.
The technology will help in tracing the movement of a bag of fertilizer from factory/port up to the doorstep of the farmer, thus sub serving the larger cause of Direct benefit transfers actively under consideration of the Government of India.
The project is aiming to enable the evolution of IPL’s end-user base of 140 million farmers with digital identification for people and objects including the secure connection of over 200 distribution channels into a Trusted Cybersecurity Platform enabling farmer empowerment by inclusive eco-systems, said IPL.
Farmers and distributors will be enabled with the latest Digital Identity and IoT technologies allowing them to be authenticated and allowing them preferential tailor made access to data through a trusted exchange between IPL, farmer’s communities, government entities and private enterprises.
This would be done by providing each WISeFarmer with a cryptographic smart card that once connected to their mobile will give them access to secure services provided by IPL adding digital certificates on their chips at the hardware level to encrypt the communication and authenticate the devices.
The IPL platform will also provide real time traceability to all products produced and distributed by IPL such as fertilizer bags as every object will have a digital certificate of authenticity. fii-news.com
