<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Dec 16, 2015, at 8:11 AM, Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:41 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":4y" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Ja it is a good start. Of all the bee yards I have seen, at least several<br>
dozen, I don't recall any of them having plug power. But electronic<br>
equipment takes wall power and transforms it down to sip just a tiny amount<br>
of energy. My notion is that we can use a car battery and a low end cell<br>
phone. I can imagine using the camera and processor in the phone and do<br>
low-end stuff, such as count of arrivals vs exits, or activity around a<br>
known pollen source and so forth.</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Does every last give even need to be watched? Wouldn't a good small randomized sample tell us much for a given area? That might bring the cost down, especially if, say, only 2% of hives in a region can tell us about the overall status of all the hives in the same area. (Ditto for monitoring other species.)<br><br><div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>