<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><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Dave<br></div></div>