Post your suggestions and questions here regarding the Brood Chamber and Environmental Monitoring project.
Do you have experience with programming Arduinos AND One-Wire? Help! There is not nearly enough information on combining those two on Internet.
October 11, 2015 at 4:39 pm
Good post by our friends at Make: The Internet of Bees: Adding Sensors to Monitor Hive Health. Read it at http://makezine.com/projects/bees-sensors-monitor-hive-health.
February 19, 2014 at 5:57 pm
This site has a great spectrum and is very interesting. I’m attempting something similar (arduino, oneWire etc.) with my bees though my electronics experience is next to nothing at the moment. You can see where it’s at here.
September 26, 2012 at 4:19 pm
To count all the bees within the hive. I’ve been considering how this could be achieved for quite some time. I work as an IT specialist for the usda and one of my unit’s is a bee lab. Couldn’t you briefly expose the hive to an electric field then measure the resistance of said field then measure the average resistance of an empty colony with supers and honey then measure the resistance of one bee. After that plug in your figures and you’d have a fairly accurate count would you not? this could all be done with arduino over a wifi network. Arduino supports temp sensing too. Maybe even humidity sense. Its something to be looked at I think. I m not sure what the consequences or power consumption of exposing the hive to a weak electric field may be.
November 19, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I built a quick temperature logger for my hive using a datalogger card and thermal sensor from http://www.sparkfun.com. The card will record any sort of sensor output onto a built-in micro SD card at an interval you can set. I have vent holes drilled in most of my hive bodies, so I can push the temp sensor into the hole to get a reading. I think the whole thing cost $40, and could take other sensors too. I have always wanted to count bee flights and compare their frequency to the air temperature or sunshine. I am looking for a way to remotely determine relative health of many hives. A weight sensor might be idea, but seem very expensive…