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Beehive Sensors – Technology Overview Part 2
In this post, I discuss Thingsboard and my internet-of-things (IoT) project whose data can be viewed at https://huntershives.com/iot/graph.html. ThingsBoard is an open source service I have running on my developmental network. Incoming data (from an Arduino board with an attached sensor) is uploaded to a Postgres database and read by ThingsBoard. The service has a…
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Beehive Sensors – Technology Overview, part 1
In a previous article, I evaluated the concept of a “smart hive” and the benefits we, as beekeepers, could possibly gain by using the technology. In this article I provide an overview of my initial implementation of this concept. There are several products currently being marketed that provide off-the-shelf technology for a connected beehive. (This…
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Beehive Sensors: An Overview of Current “Smart Hive” Technology
For years I have been curious about how sensors placed in beehives could provide a beekeeper with more information about how their colonies live and behave to both internal and external factors. Think: genius hive! [1] In general, sensors can collect information, communicate information or can both collect and share information. The Internet of Things…