Blog List:
1. Bee Monitoring: Introduction
2. Bee Monitoring: System Design & Workflow
3. Bee Monitoring: Setting up Nicla Vision
4. Bee Monitoring: Training the Model & Inferencing
5. Bee Monitoring: Bee Hive Environmental Monitoring using Arduino MKR 1310
Introduction:
Hi everyone, I'm excited to start this series of blogs documenting my journey of building a bee monitoring system using Arduino MKR WAN 1310 and Arduino Pro Nicla Vision Board.
It was a tough and long journey getting the kit due to customs. Thanks to Element14 Team and e14phil for helping out and solving the issue quickly.
Project Plan:
Moving on to the project now. The main goal of this project is to help manage, monitor and research bees. By understanding their behavior, we can save them and in turn, save humans. Additionally, monitoring will allow us to detect diseases among bees early on.
To achieve this, I will be working on a few key problems. Firstly, I need to solve the issue of manual detection of bees in video using computer vision and Arduino Pro Nicla Vision Board. Next, I will work on detecting diseases among bees using their behavior in or near beehives. I'll also monitor the environment around bees and perform analysis to preempt bee behavior.
The kit:
Before diving into the technical details, let me give you an unboxing experience of the Arduino Pro Nicla Vision Board and MKR WAN 1310.
Upon unboxing, the Arduino Pro Nicla Vision Board comes in a compact package with a camera module, a distance sensor, a microphone, and an antenna. The board itself is small and lightweight, making it perfect for a project like this. It's compatible with TensorFlow Lite, MicroPython, Edge Impulse and other machine learning frameworks.
The Arduino MKR WAN 1310 comes in a small box with the board and some manuals. It's designed for long-range connectivity and low-power consumption, making it ideal for IoT projects like this. The Arduino MKR WAN 1310 will act as the brain of the project. It will allow me to send data to the cloud and get it processed and bring the data back to take required actions, like performing the bee hive farmer. All this with minimum power consumption.
I'm excited to start working on this project and sharing my progress with you. Stay tuned for the next blog post, where I'll discuss the system design and a detailed component list.
Connect with Me:
Github - aaryan2134