Save bees, time and strength
Model hives to remember where to take action and why when paper notes become hard to maintain in the field.
Take frame photos and upload them to the app. Gratheon detects and counts bees to measure colony size.
Use your phone camera during inspection and let Gratheon point out queen-like detections as you scan the frame.
Track colony development over time and compare the same frame to see changes in the colony.
Detect cells and estimate resource ratios. Balancing nectar and pollen between colonies can prevent starvation.
Detect and count varroa mites without killing bees with an alcohol wash test.
Share hive inspections with the beekeeping community and get expert advice.
Weigh the hive every 10 minutes and follow brood-nest temperature and humidity from a probe in the entrance. See the nectar flow, a swarm leaving, winter stores running low or a hive tipped over. Runs a year on batteries, or powered by the Entrance Observer.
Get video feed of entrance in real-time. Count bees coming in and out to estimate foraging bee daily loss. Detect varroa mites riding on bees. Track pollen flow. Detect robbing, worker orientation flights. Detect queen mating flights.
Our ultimate goal. Automate inspections with a mechanical frame extraction. Save energy from lifting heavy beehive sections. Reduce bees dying from inspections. Improve efficiency with remote internal observation to save time on field trips. Be always up-to-date with alert notifications. Keep neighbours sting-free in urban areas.
Gratheon is built on the shoulders of open-source software and is fully open too - both software and hardware.
Join us to improve life of 100 million bee colonies worldwide and meet pollination demand for more. We're looking for investors to scale our development, engineers to join our team, beekeepers to run field testing and advisors to guide us.
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