CDAC: Content-Driven Access Control Architecture for Smart Farms

Ghadeer Yassin, Lakshmish Ramaswamy

2025

Abstract

One of the smart farms’ pivotal components involves leveraging vast quantities of imagery data to inform decision-making and improve farm outcomes. With the increasing integration of image data in smart farms, ensuring secure and efficient access to these data sets is crucial. This paper proposes a novel Content-Driven Access Control (CDAC) architecture designed specifically for smart farming environments, where access requests to image data are evaluated based on the visual content of the images. The CDAC architecture employs a novel technique to assess the relevance of access requests to specific image contents by enriching access control requests with useful image content information with the help of an edge machine learning classification model that provides a fast and small-weight solution to classify images near their source in the smart farm. This approach goes beyond traditional access control methods by considering the information within images, allowing for more granular and content-aware permissions. To validate the effectiveness of the CDAC architecture, a series of experiments were conducted using a dataset of agricultural images. Results demonstrate that the proposed architecture is a valuable solution for regulating access to smart farm images based on the visual content of the images. Additionally, the architecture is proven suitable for deployment on smart farm edge devices.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yassin G. and Ramaswamy L. (2025). CDAC: Content-Driven Access Control Architecture for Smart Farms. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP; ISBN 978-989-758-735-1, SciTePress, pages 83-94. DOI: 10.5220/0013372000003899

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp25,
author={Ghadeer Yassin and Lakshmish Ramaswamy},
title={CDAC: Content-Driven Access Control Architecture for Smart Farms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP},
year={2025},
pages={83-94},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013372000003899},
isbn={978-989-758-735-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP
TI - CDAC: Content-Driven Access Control Architecture for Smart Farms
SN - 978-989-758-735-1
AU - Yassin G.
AU - Ramaswamy L.
PY - 2025
SP - 83
EP - 94
DO - 10.5220/0013372000003899
PB - SciTePress