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BeeSmart

Company: Highview Honey

Major(s):
Primary: ME
Secondary: CMPEN
Optional: CMPSC, IE

Non-Disclosure Agreement: YES

Intellectual Property: YES

In order for beekeepers to understand the health of a hive. A beekeeper must open and interact with the hive. This causes damage and stress on the hive as well as being labor intensive and requiring advanced skill sets. The team will advance the development of the BeeSmart product to allow beekeepers insight into the workings, productivity, and health of a hive in a non-intrusive manner as well as being able to compare characteristics of hive across an apiary, region, etc. In addition the device needed to do this needs to be produced at a cost that saves sufficient time or increases the productivity sufficiently to warrant implementation. The intended solution is to implement simple sensors on each hive including weight, vibration and temperature that connects to the cloud and uses the sensors to determine: Number of bees actively foraging, mass of honey, bee count reduction due to sickness and disease, etc.

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