[ExI] Bee Watch

[spike]

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sill
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 8:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Bee Watch

 

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

 

>…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. … components needed are already on the shelf.

-Dave 

 

 

Ja that should work.  The camper crowd has created a market for small solar panels good for keeping deep cell batteries charged.  A motorcycle battery of about 10 amp-hrs and a solar panel about 20 cm on a side should be plenty of power to run a camera and a phone.  You don’t need an IR illumination source for this particular application because bees will not fly when it is dark.

 

For wildlife observation, where most of it happens at night, we could use motion detecting IR illumination.

 

spike

 

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