NDLI: Big brother for bees (3B) — Energy neutral platform for remote monitoring of beehive imagery and sound

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Author	Murphy, F.E. Magno, M. O'Leary, L. Troy, K. Whelan, P. Popovici, E.M.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Integrated Syst. Lab., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (Magno, M.) \|\| Sch. of Biol. Earth & Environ. Sci. (BEES), Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland (Whelan, P.) \|\| Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland (Murphy, F.E.; O'Leary, L.; Troy, K.; Popovici, E.M.)
Abstract	Honey bees have played a major role in the history and development of humankind, in particular for nutrition and agriculture. The most important role of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is that of pollination. A large amount of crops consumed throughout the world today are pollinated by the activity of the honey bee. It is estimated that the total value of these crops stands at 155 billion euro annually. The goal of the work outlined in this paper was to use wireless sensor network technology to monitor a colony within the beehive with the aim of collecting image and audio data. These data allows the beekeeper to obtain a much more comprehensive view of the in-hive conditions, an indication of flight direction, as well as monitoring the hive outside of the traditional beekeeping times, i.e. during the night, poor weather, and winter months. This paper outlines the design of a fully autonomous beehive monitoring system which provided image and sound monitoring of the internal chambers of the hive, as well as a warning system for emergency events such as possible piping, dramatically increased hive activity, or physical damage to the hive. The final design included three wireless nodes: a digital infrared camera with processing capabilities for collecting imagery of the hive interior; an external thermal imaging camera node for monitoring the colony status and activity, and an accelerometer and a microphone connected to an off the shelf microcontroller node for processing. The system allows complex analysis and sensor fusion. Some scenarios based on sound processing, image collection, and accelerometers are presented. Power management was implemented which allowed the system to achieve energy neutrality in an outdoor deployment with a 525 × 345 mm solar panel.
Starting Page	106
Ending Page	111
File Size	765367
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479989812
DOI	10.1109/IWASI.2015.7184943
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-06-18
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Accelerometers Wireless sensor networks Environmental Monitoring Intelligent Environments Beekeeping Low Power Cameras Internet of Things Wireless Sensor Networks Monitoring Microphones Meteorology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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