Progress towards an intelligent beehive: Building an intelligent environment to promote the well-being of honeybees

Donald Howard; Gordon Hunter; Olga Duran; Demetrios Venetsanos

doi:10.1109/IE.2016.60

Progress towards an intelligent beehive: Building an intelligent environment to promote the well-being of honeybees

Donald Howard, Gordon Hunter, Olga Duran, Demetrios Venetsanos

Kingston University

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Abstract

Honeybees are not only important for their production of honey but also, and more fundamentally, they are almost certainly the most effective pollinators of crops. However, there is strong evidence that the honeybee is under threat. Various factors, including parasites, bacterial and fungal infections and pesticides have been suggested as causes of this. In this project, we aim to promote bee well-being by encouraging bees to live more naturally, and propose an 'intelligent beehive', equipped with an array of appropriate sensors, to allow the continuous monitoring of conditions in the hive in a non-invasive manner. In this paper, we discuss the issues surrounding bee welfare and decline, present our innovative hive designs and some preliminary results and analysis, concluding with future work we plan to carry out, collecting & analysing data from a range of hives equipped with a much broader range of sensors, including a discussion of our equipment and methodologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2016
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	262-265
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509040568
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5090-4057-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.60
Publication status	Published - 26 Oct 2016
Event	12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - London, United Kingdom Duration: 14 Sept 2016 → 16 Sept 2016 Conference number: 12

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Conference	12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
Abbreviated title	IE 2016
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	14/09/16 → 16/09/16

Keywords

beehive
honeybees
intelligent sensor network
monitoring
well-being

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Science Applications

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Progress towards an intelligent beehive: Building an intelligent environment to promote the well-being of honeybees. / Howard, Donald; Hunter, Gordon; Duran, Olga et al.
Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. p. 262-265.

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Howard, D, Hunter, G, Duran, O & Venetsanos, D 2016, Progress towards an intelligent beehive: Building an intelligent environment to promote the well-being of honeybees. in Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 262-265, 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, London, United Kingdom, 14/09/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.60

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