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Toward an intelligent and efficient beehive: A survey of precision beekeeping systems and services

th Since the end of the 20 century, bees are suffering from increasing stress factors, leading domesticated colonies to die or at least be less productive. Precision beekeeping (PB) is an emerging field of agriculture that aims at protecting bees, supporting beekeepers, and optimizing apiary production thanks to digital infrastructures. The digitalization of apiculture first involves systems from the field of the Internet of Things (IoT), with the development of sensors to collect and transfer bee-related data. Then, data analysis comes into play, providing models that connect the data with the biological states of beehives, sometimes thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper, we describe the recent advances in precision beekeeping as systems and as.

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Authors
Hugo Hadjur, Doreid Ammar, Laurent Lefèvre
Organizations
🇫🇷 aivancity School for Technology🇫🇷 Université de Lyon
Year
2021
Type
Journal

Relevancy to Gratheon

This paper is relevant to Gratheon because it informs sensor hardware, telemetry pipelines, and monitoring dashboards, product strategy and competitive research mapping. 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.