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== HiveTool ==
 
== HiveTool ==
HiveTool is a collection of readily available, off-the-shelf [http://hivetool.org/w/index.php?title=Hardware hardware] and free, open source [http://hivetool.org/w/index.php?title=Software software] that continuously monitors a beehive. Computerized hive monitors provide realtime graphs and historic data of weight, internal and ambient temperature, humidity and light levels which give the beekeeper a noninvasive view into the hive.
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HiveTool is a collection of readily available, off-the-shelf [[hardware]] and free, open source [[software]] that continuously monitors a beehive. Computerized hive monitors provide realtime graphs and historic data of weight, internal and ambient temperature, humidity and light levels which give the beekeeper a noninvasive view into the hive.
  
 
== Uses ==
 
== Uses ==

Revision as of 06:46, 21 December 2013

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HiveTool

HiveTool is a collection of readily available, off-the-shelf hardware and free, open source software that continuously monitors a beehive. Computerized hive monitors provide realtime graphs and historic data of weight, internal and ambient temperature, humidity and light levels which give the beekeeper a noninvasive view into the hive.

Uses

Hive Management

Climate and Land Use Research

Education and Bee Science

  • South Carolina Hive Instrumentation Project
  • Bioacoustics
  • Bioservers
  • Visual Bee Counter
  • To Do
  • History
  • About
  • Colony Collapse

Hardware

A scale hive (or bioserver) consists of a computer (desktop, laptop, router, SBC/SOC such as Raspberry Pi), which is used to record, display, and analyze data from sensors such as scales, thermometers, hygrometers, microphones, cameras, photocells and raingauge. Listed below are readily available, commercial, off the shelf products that are currently in use or undergoing development and testing. Read More

Software

This project uses free open source software (FOSS). The operating system is Linux although everything should run under Windows. The Perl module GD::Graph is used to plot the data. The graphs and data are displayed with a web server, usually Apache. Read More.