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Hivetool.org provides documentation and instructions and a forum for discussions on how to set up a bioserver to monitor a bee hive.
 
Hivetool.org provides documentation and instructions and a forum for discussions on how to set up a bioserver to monitor a bee hive.
  
For a list of the monitored hives and to view the data, please visit [[http://hivetool.net hivetool.net]]
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For a list of the monitored hives and to view the data, please visit [http://hivetool.net hivetool.net]
  
 
== Uses ==
 
== Uses ==

Revision as of 05:25, 22 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 and historic data and graphs of weight, internal and ambient temperature, humidity and light levels which give the beekeeper a noninvasive view into the hive.

Hivetool.org provides documentation and instructions and a forum for discussions on how to set up a bioserver to monitor a bee hive.

For a list of the monitored hives and to view the data, please visit hivetool.net

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.