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Hello Everybody,

I'm fairly new in apiculture but I've decided to start by doing what I do best.

Please check this project and let me know what you think.

https://beetheuino.wordpress.com/

Thanks

Only just seen this post / thread.
What does your proposed system do that is better or cheaper than the hivetool sytem (http://wiki.hivetool.org/HiveTool.org) , that was developed in conjunction with the Center for Honeybee Research (http://centerforhoneybeeresearch.org/hive-monitoring/ )?

Hello Apiarisnt,

running things on a rasp is always fun and easy but you can never go deeper into the architecture as you are limited by the embedded framework.

Things like power save, remote fw updates, modular approach, price, etc will always restrict you and your choices.

Don't take me wrong, you showed me a really nice project and the load cells seem "smart" but if you ever try to industrialize something like that you'll be walking into a nightmare.

Nevertheless, I've already gave up on the BeetheUino project. Bees are really efficient animals and there isn't much we can monitor/(do) to help them. They are far smarter than us.

The amount of technology is still too expensive to deploy in all beehives of interes and the average beekeeper is not willing to spend that money... unless he is a tek geek.

keep up with the good work

Also the project you showed me is all about hardware.

No data visualization on the cloud, no data analysis with machine learning or SVM... but again, a nice project either way

There is a wealth of stuff out there, for instance this chap: https://cs.usu.edu/people/faculty/kulyukin-vladimir
is doing a lot of AI related work. Have a look at his ""In Situ Omnidirectional Vision-Based Bee Counting Using 1D Haar WaveletSpikes."

There is some interesting work being done on acoustic analysis. For instance one example amongst many: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/view ... ontext=etd

A more general overview for the general public can be seen at: https://www.economist.com/science-and-t ... ms-of-bees

An interesting background on the use of acoustics to recognise bee disease is that some of the original work was funded by the US military in connection with their using bees to detect land mines. Bees are very good at detecting land mines and IEDs, but all the terrorist needs to do is to distract them with a some nectar, sugar water or honey and they no longer have any interest in explosives

Radio 4's Inside Science programme talking about collaboration between Dr Simon Potts at Reading University and Oracle to use big data to monitor beehives. Using Buzz box (https://www.osbeehives.com/) into the Oracle cloud.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000xrh

Just after 15 minutes in.