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Analysis of Energy Consumption in a Precision Beekeeping System

A NALYSIS OF E NERGY C ONSUMPTION IN A P RECISION B EEKEEPING S YSTEM arXiv:2010.14934v1 [cs.AR] 28 Oct 2020 Hugo Hadjur∗ emlyon business school Inria, Univ Lyon, EnsL, UCBL, CNRS, LIP Lyon, France hugo.hadjur@ens-lyon.fr Doreid Ammar† emlyon business school Ecully, France ammar@em-lyon.com Laurent Lefevre‡ Inria, Univ Lyon, EnsL, UCBL, CNRS, LIP Lyon, France laurent.lefevre@ens-lyon.fr October 2020 A BSTRACT Honey bees have been domesticated by humans for several thousand years and mainly provide honey and pollination, which is fundamental for plant reproduction. Nowadays, the work of beekeepers is constrained by external factors that stress their production (parasites and pesticides among others). Taking care of large numbers of beehives is time-consuming, so integrating sensors to track their status can drastically simplify the work of beekeepers. Precision beekeeping complements beekeepers’ work thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

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Authors
Hugo Hadjur, Doreid Ammar, Laurent Lefevre
Organizations
🇫🇷 emlyon business school🇫🇷 Inria🇫🇷 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon🇫🇷 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1🇫🇷 CNRS LIP
Year
2020
Type
Preprint

Relevancy to Gratheon

This paper is relevant to Gratheon because it informs sensor hardware, telemetry pipelines, and monitoring dashboards, edge-AI deployment, power budgeting, and offline operation. Its methods and findings can be translated into product requirements for reliable field deployments: what should be sensed, how signals should be interpreted, and which uncertainty or validation limits need to be surfaced to beekeepers. For Gratheon, the work is most useful as an evidence-backed design reference for connecting local hive observations with actionable recommendations in the web app while keeping hardware practical for remote apiaries.