[ExI] Bee Watch

[Dave Sill]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:41 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> Ja it is a good start.  Of all the bee yards I have seen, at least several
> dozen, I don't recall any of them having plug power.  But electronic
> equipment takes wall power and transforms it down to sip just a tiny amount
> of energy.  My notion is that we can use a car battery and a low end cell
> phone.  I can imagine using the camera and processor in the phone and do
> low-end stuff, such as count of arrivals vs exits, or activity around a
> known pollen source and so forth.
>

I think something like solar/battery-powered wifi-connected cameras that
talk to a solar/battery-powered GSM-connected base station would be the way
to go. I've got a security camera system (Arlo) that uses battery-powered
cameras and a security system (SimpliSafe) that uses battery-powered
wifi-connect sensors to talk to a GSM-connected base station, so many of
the components needed are already on the shelf.

-Dave
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