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Self-Powered Smart Beehive Monitoring and Control System (SBMaCS)

Beekeeping in Africa has been practiced for many years through successive generations and along inherited patterns. Beekeepers continue to face challenges in accessing consistent and businessdriven markets for their bee products. In addition, the honeybee populations are decreasing due to colony collapse disorder (CCD), fire, loss of bees in swarming, honey buggers and other animals, moths, starvation, cold weather, and Varoa mites. The main issues are related to un-controlled temperature, humidity, and traditional management of beekeeping. These challenges result in low production of honey and colony.

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Authors
Elias Ntawuzumunsi, Santhi Kumaran, Louis Sibomana
Organizations
🇷🇼 University of Rwanda🇿🇲 Copperbelt University🇷🇼 National Council of Science and Technology
Year
2021
Type
Journal

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.