StephensApairy.com

Welcome to StephensApiary.com Sacramento, California USA

Contact Info: Stephen@StephensApiary.com

This is the Hivelogger.com IoT prototype - a suite of "Smart Sensors" for healthy honeybees

Monitoring honeybee behavior through climate and weight change smart-sensor technology enables active environmental and ecological survey. This “quantitative tool-set” produces historical records for researchers, educates the community, enhances security, and helps change management postures from reactive to proactive. This platform provides autonomous and stable weight, climate, and custom data acquisition in support of AI (Artificial Intelligence), MV (Machine Vision), and ML (Machine Learning) analytics.

Some additional benefits of this technology include:

Improve the knowledge-base in ecological survey and honeybee behavior
Support honey production forecasting and honey tampering investigations (HFCS fraud)
Characterize and evaluate Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
Monitor related climate and environmental components (Environmental-canary in the coal-mine)
Provide commercial operations with valuable Best Management Practice (BMP) tools
Honeybee management and production - QA/QC & quarantine development tools
Support of Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) – Actionable regulatory oversight
Catalyst to Private/Public Partnerships – Pollination support, Leverage integrated rural infrastructure
Support for Sustainable Collaborative Programs for Education & Community
Catalyst for innovation and entrepreneurship – Integration of STEM & IoT into the community.

Below is a sample DAILY climate report showing real-time climate data including entry climate and comb temperatures from a beehive ( Sacramento, CA)

Below is a sample WEEKLY report showing real-time climate data including entry climate and comb temperatures from a beehive (Sacramento, CA)

Innovative Weight Change System

Climate Stable Scale

Soil / Matrix Lysimeter

This platform has recently been presented to the Agricultural Innovation Entrepreneurship Academy (AIEA) with the University of California in Davis, CA. Additionally, the platform has been under evaluation by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Quarantine & Africanized Honeybees (AHB) support is one of the specific design elements of the platform. The innovative weight change system performs autonomously in variable climates and delivers precisions of 1/10 of 1% of disposed mass. For a standard beehive of 25 lbs. in a variable climate this system can detect weight changes well under 50 grams!

This is an ideal solution for long-term climate exposed weight monitoring of any “shaped” hive or mass that cannot be moved or disturbed. With and adapter, the same innovative system can perform as a lysimeter and continuously monitor a large mass of soil or other matrix, while not restricting any fluid percolation through the sample.

Cyberkinetics promotes the benefits of geospatial informatics and survey by building collaborative relationships with information technology (IT) infrastructure. Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), and Best Management Practices (BMPs) for agricultural operations are facilitated through a comprehensive and integrated regulatory oversight mission. Building a win-win bridge to teams that can benefit directly from this concept and provide valuable development feedback and commercialization mentorship are our key objectives.

QUICK LINKS

Live Stream @ StephensApairy.com

Archive of YouTube Live Streaming @ StephensApairy.com

24 hour - Live Hive Entrance View (platform credentials required)

Hivelogger Executive Summary PDF Document

General Hivelogger History PDF Document

(Intro and pics from early 2006, UC Davis BigBang, EAS 2012 Vermont, WAS 2014 Montana, Krakow 2015 through YouTube Beta)

Stephen A. Engel CV PDF Document

Stephen A. Engel - publications, contributions, and references :

United States Patent (USPTO) Allowances

US8771035 PDF Document - Apparatus for continuous weight monitoring of beehives

US8419501 PDF Document - Apparatus for continuous weight monitoring of beehives