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These networks are increasingly used in agricultural and industrial environments and have a dual role in data collection from sensors and transmission to a monitoring system, as well as enabling the management of the monitored environment. Environment management depends on trust in the data collected from the surrounding environment, including the time of data creation. This paper proposes a trust model for monitoring humidity and moisture in agricultural and industrial environments. The proposed model uses a digital signature and public key infrastructure (PKI) to establish trust in the data source, i.e., the trust in the sensor. Trust in data generation is essential for real-time environmental monitoring and subsequent analyzes, thus timestamp technology is implemented here to further ensure that gathered data are not created or changed after the assigned time. Model validation is performed using the Castalia network simulator by testing energy consumption at the receiver and sender nodes and the delay incurred by creating or validating a trust token. In addition, validation is also performed using the Ascertia TSA Crusher application for the time consumed to obtain a timestamp from the free TSA. The results show that by applying different digital signs and timestamps, the trust entity of the WSN improved significantly with an increase in power consumption of the sender node by up to 9.3% and receiver node by up to 126.3% for a higher number of nodes, along with a packet delay of up to 15.6% and an average total time consumed up to 1.186 s to obtain the timestamp from the best chosen TSA, which was as expected.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21113636","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,24]],"date-time":"2021-05-24T02:32:43Z","timestamp":1621823563000},"page":"3636","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Trustworthy Wireless Sensor Networks for Monitoring Humidity and Moisture Environments"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2067-2758","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Radomir","family":"Prodanovi\u0107","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Applied Mathematics and Electronics, Serbian Armed Forces, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9356-4988","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sohail","family":"Sarang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9445-7700","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dejan","family":"Ran\u010di\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Ni\u0161, 18000 Ni\u0161, Serbia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5161-5422","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ivan","family":"Vuli\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Military Academy, University of Defence, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2098-189X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Goran M.","family":"Stojanovi\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4311-1507","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Stevan","family":"Stankovski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5558-677X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gordana","family":"Ostoji\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9128-5336","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Igor","family":"Baranovski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3670-9906","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Du\u0161an","family":"Maksovi\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Ni\u0161, 18000 Ni\u0161, Serbia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"413","DOI":"10.1142\/S2424862220300069","article-title":"A Review of the Role of Smart Wireless Medical Sensor Network in COVID-19","volume":"05","author":"Shokat","year":"2020","journal-title":"J. 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