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Precision Apiculture – IoT System for Remote Monitoring of Honeybee Colonies

Beekeeping practice, being very environmentally dependent, requires the temperature and the humidity in the hive to be in some regular ranges for optimal beehive health and productivity. Since most of the plants and flowers required for beehive prosperity and honey production are usually outside inhabited areas, the beekeeper must travel to the bee colonies to check them, which can be time and resource consuming. In this paper, an end to end remote monitoring and control system for a bee colony is presented. The system is consisted of a web-based system for monitoring and control of the conditions of the hives and IoT system for collecting the sensor measurements and transferring the data. The IoT system is composed of hardware units that are mounted on the beehives, containing temperature, humidity, weight sensors, actuators, and a microcontroller responsible for collecting the measurements and sending the data to the web.

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Organizations
🇲🇰 Ss. Cyril and Methodius University
Year
2020
Type
Journal

Relevancy to Gratheon

This paper is relevant to Gratheon because it informs sensor hardware, telemetry pipelines, and monitoring dashboards. 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.