Electronic Colony Monitoring (Coordinator Dr. Frank Linton)
A Full Day EAS Short Course Program on Monday, Aug. 13th, 2018
The current high rate of colony loss, 30%-40% annually, presents beekeepers with a conundrum. More-frequent inspections might reduce these losses by revealing small problems before they become big ones, but every inspection disturbs the bees and unnecessary inspections may themselves contribute to colony losses. Still, for many backyard beekeepers, the issue is not too many inspections but too few. How can beekeepers be alerted to small problems before they become big ones – avoiding either too many inspections or too few? The solutions presented in this workshop all involve inserting sensors into hives to monitor colony health and productivity remotely. Like the many sensors in your automobile, sensors in your colonies can keep you informed of your colonies’ well-being and alert you to problems early-on.
Sensor types
(subject to changes): Presenters include
In addition, several individuals will have posters and/or demos of their colony monitoring technologies set up around the periphery of the room. These will be open during the lunch time hour on Monday, August 13th from 12- 1:30 for all interested in Conference Room AB (downstairs in the convention center).
Demo/Poster presenter |
Affiliation |
Topic/Title |
TBD |
Freelance Developer (Spain) |
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Kelly Kulhane |
BIP hive scale portal, and the Sentinel Apiary Program which combines hive scale data (from many of the speakers participating in this short course) with longitudinal colony health data collected by beekeepers. |
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Frank Linton |
Hive Inspection with Temperature Sensors: A Research Agenda |
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Dick Rogers |
The Healthy Colony Checklist: A practical solution and technology to quickly assess, record, understand, and plan management of honey bee colony health |
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Stuart Shim |
Beaver Plastics (Canada) |
RFID-enabled Polystyrene Brood Box |
Christian Walsh Bryan Hoyt |
(New Zealand) |
Benefits of monitoring your beehives remotely. An overview of the economic, operational, and hive health advantages of knowing how your far-off hives are doing, and what kinds of things you're missing if you don't. |
Wyatt Wells |
Data Science in beekeeping |
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