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The queen bee is the central individual responsible for colony establishment, growth, and survival. Reliable confirmation of successful mating, continued queen presence, and normal reproductive performance is essential for effective colony management. We present a queen bee detection system based on an array of Hall-effect sensors and a miniature magnetic tag attached to the queen. Field experiments conducted in an apiary demonstrated that the system can reliably detect queen bee passages through the hive entrance, enabling the identification of activities associated with mating flights.
This paper is relevant to Gratheon because it directly informs the development of monitoring-platform using technologies like iot-sensors, bee-behaviour. Its findings and methods can be directly applied to our precision apiculture telemetry and edge diagnostics pipelines to build reliable, scalable beehive monitoring products.