[ExI] Bee Watch

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sill
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 7:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Bee Watch

 

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:40 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com <mailto:pharos at gmail.com> > wrote:

This App Monitors Bee Flight To Warn When Something's Amiss

<http://www.fastcoexist.com/3054207/this-app-monitors-bee-flight-to-warn-when-somethings-amiss>

 

That's really cool. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how useful it's going to be. Wiring power and data to most bee yards is going to be tricky, and at $300/pop, it's too expensive for widespread deployment. Monitoring only one hive per yard would be cheaper, but, unfortunately, hives are pretty independent, so the hive you're watching might be doing great while several others are going belly up.

-Dave 

 

 

Well ja, but I can imagine a big crowd-funding deal or research bucks being granted to set up a bunch of these to see what we can learn.  As scientific instruments go, this one is a bargain.  That power concern is perfectly valid, but I am envisioning a version of this which can run on battery power, perhaps a scaled-down version.

 

spike

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