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

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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
Editors	Stefano Chessa, Gordon Hunter, Tiina Kymalainen, Stefan Poslad, Stuart Middleton, Tony Huang, Antonio Coronato, Juan Carlos Augusto, Simon Egerton, Rui Loureiro
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	262-265
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509040568
ISBN (Print)	9781509040575
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.60
Publication status	Published - 27 Oct 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - London, United Kingdom Duration: 14 Sep 2016 → 16 Sep 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

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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 S. Chessa, G. Hunter, T. Kymalainen, S. Poslad, S. Middleton, T. Huang, A. Coronato, J. C. Augusto, S. Egerton, & R. Loureiro (Eds.), Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2016 (pp. 262-265). [7723513] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.60

Howard, Donald ; Hunter, Gordon ; Duran, Olga et al. / Progress Towards an Intelligent Beehive : Building an Intelligent Environment to Promote the Well-being of Honeybees. Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2016. editor / Stefano Chessa ; Gordon Hunter ; Tiina Kymalainen ; Stefan Poslad ; Stuart Middleton ; Tony Huang ; Antonio Coronato ; Juan Carlos Augusto ; Simon Egerton ; Rui Loureiro. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. pp. 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 S Chessa, G Hunter, T Kymalainen, S Poslad, S Middleton, T Huang, A Coronato, JC Augusto, S Egerton & R Loureiro (eds), Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2016., 7723513, 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

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. ed. / Stefano Chessa; Gordon Hunter; Tiina Kymalainen; Stefan Poslad; Stuart Middleton; Tony Huang; Antonio Coronato; Juan Carlos Augusto; Simon Egerton; Rui Loureiro. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. p. 262-265 7723513.

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Howard D, Hunter G, Duran O, Venetsanos D. Progress Towards an Intelligent Beehive: Building an Intelligent Environment to Promote the Well-being of Honeybees. In Chessa S, Hunter G, Kymalainen T, Poslad S, Middleton S, Huang T, Coronato A, Augusto JC, Egerton S, Loureiro R, editors, Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016. p. 262-265. 7723513 doi: 10.1109/IE.2016.60

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