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BeeWatch: LoRaWAN Environmental Monitoring – Blog 11: Summary Conclusion

Gough Lui

Bees are definitely an important part of the ecosystem and play a key role as a pollinator of plant life, including that of crops, while also producing honey. The emergence of colony collapse disorder has revealed the complex challenges which bees ar...
- 26 Apr 2023
Honey Bee Safe: Bees, Hornets, and Blooms: rebuilding the model with bees and hornets

ntewinkel

Now that we have our "real" bee and hornet ready for showtime, I had to rebuild the Edge Impulse model from scratch using pictures of the new characters. The cast is ready for action! Behind the scenes on the set: I took about 50 images each of ...
- 25 Apr 2023
Save the Bees challange Blog-2 - Get started with LoRaWAN

embeddedguy

The Save the Bees challenge has provided the development kit to the selected participant with two development boards. They are Arduino Nicla vision and Arduino MKR WAN 1310. These development platforms are quite useful in the project ideas that one m...
- 25 Apr 2023
BeeWatch: LoRaWAN Environmental Monitoring – Blog 10: Nicla Vision Power, Saving B’s & Dashboard Woes

Gough Lui

As we count down the days to the end of the Save the Bees Design Challenge, a regret I carry from my last post is that I didn’t attempt any AI-based inferencing now that I have a Nicla Vision board in my hand. In this post, we’ll try to c...
- 25 Apr 2023
Bees Monitor With Predators Repellent # 10 - Summary

guillengap

Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Edge Impulse Improving Edge Impulse Model Testing The Machine Learning Model With OpenMV Adding The Water Sprayer System Testing The Water Sprayer System IoT Ambient Monitoring System | P...
- 24 Apr 2023
Bees Monitor With Predators Repellent # 9 - IoT Environmental Monitoring System | Part2

guillengap

Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Edge Impulse Improving Edge Impulse Model Testing The Machine Learning Model With OpenMV Adding The Water Sprayer System Testing The Water Sprayer System IoT Environmental Monitoring Syst...
- 24 Apr 2023
Bees Monitor With Predators Repellent # 8 - IoT Environmental Monitoring System | Part1

guillengap

Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Edge Impulse Improving Edge Impulse Model Testing The Machine Learning Model With OpenMV Adding The Water Sprayer System Testing The Water Sprayer System IoT Environmental Monitoring Syst...
- 24 Apr 2023
Bee Healthy - Blog 13: Save the Bees Design Challenge Summary

ralphjy

Node-Red Dashboard - Final Configuration I changed the way that I display the inference data. First, I had to reduce the upload frequency to once every 80 seconds because the reduced RSSI due to the gateway distance to the deployed sensors was ...
- 24 Apr 2023
Bee Monitoring: Bee Hive Environmental Monitoring using Arduino MKR 1310

aaryan2134

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 Environmenta...
- 23 Apr 2023
Bee Monitoring: Training the Model & Inferencing

aaryan2134

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 Environ...
- 22 Apr 2023
BeeAInspector Blog #4

FollowTheWizard

Hi all, Welcome to our fourth blog entry for the Save the Bees Challenge. We have been busy getting up and running with the boards, which was really smooth and testing our first program for open/close reed detection. And we have to say, the fi...
- 22 Apr 2023
Bee Monitoring: Setting up Nicla Vision

aaryan2134

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 Environ...
- 22 Apr 2023
Bee Monitoring: System Design & Workflow

aaryan2134

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 Environ...
- 22 Apr 2023
Honey Bee Safe: Bee More Bee-like

ntewinkel

This is the moment we've all been waiting for: it's the unveiling of the much more bee-like and much more hornet-like art stand-ins for our project!! Say hello to our little bee: And... Say hellloooo to our little friend, the murder hornet! Artis...
- 21 Apr 2023
ZinnBee Blog#05: I2C Bus Between Arduino Nicla Vision Module and MKR1310

flyingbean

After the Spring break activities finished here, I updated my schedule for ZinnBee Lego-lab ML testing report, which will be posted by end of this week. I jumped to communication testing between Arduino Nicla Vision module and MKR 1310 module now. I ...
- 21 Apr 2023
Save the Bees from Bee-eaters

embeddedguy

Blog 1 - Introduction to the project and challenge in saving bees. First, I would like to thank element14 for selecting me as one of the official challenger for the save the bees challenge. This is an opportunity for anyone who want to take part in ...
- 19 Apr 2023
Image Conversion to Integer Array for LCD Display

dougw

This is a blog showing how I converted images to 16 bit integer arrays to be displayed on an LCD. The Arduino code uses the Adafruit_GFX.h and Adafruit_ILI9341.h libraries to display these images. https://youtu.be/ahErgztMYVE Links: Two Bee Or ...
- 18 Apr 2023
Bees Monitor With Predators Repellent # 7 - Testing The Water Sprayer System

guillengap

Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Edge Impulse Improving Edge Impulse Model Testing The Machine Learning Model With OpenMV Adding The Water Sprayer System Testing The Water Sprayer System IoT Ambient Monitoring System | P...
- 18 Apr 2023
Honey Bee Safe: Saving Images of Hornets

ntewinkel

As there is always the chance of a false positive, I thought it would be a good idea to keep the images whenever a hornet was detected, so they can be reviewed by a person. I found a few articles on how to use MQTT to receive image data into Nod...
- 17 Apr 2023
The Lora & Husky Show

dougw

IntroThis episode chronicles getting the Lora & Husky show live-connecting with the Crystal display.The Lora and husky hardware and software are fully functional, including a 3D printed chassis. This node views the scene with the Husky camera and...
- 17 Apr 2023
Bees Monitor With Predators Repellent # 6 - Adding The Water Sprayer System

guillengap

Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started Edge Impulse Improving Edge Impulse Model Testing The Machine Learning Model With OpenMV Adding The Water Sprayer System Testing The Water Sprayer System IoT Ambient Monitoring System | Part1 ...
- 16 Apr 2023
BeeAInspector Blog #3 - News on a tiny participant and unpacking the hardware

FollowTheWizard

Hi all, welcome to our third blog entry for the Save the Bees Challenge.Delayed third blog entry, due to our trip and a third tiny participant taking part in this project. Unfortunately, we cannot expect her help yet. She will step foot on this...
- 15 Apr 2023
BeeWatch: LoRaWAN Environmental Monitoring – Blog 9: Nicla Vision IR ToF & Audio Sensing, Data Dump

Gough Lui

After the last post went up, a comment from BigG let me know that I had indeed got something wrong, seemingly due to a bug in the new Arduino IDE. There actually are “bare-metal” examples in Arduino for the Nicla Vision bo...
- 15 Apr 2023
Save the Bees - IoT Bee Hive Monitor - blog 4

rahulkhanna

Welcome to the #blog4 of IoT Bee Hive monitor. In a previous blog post, we developed a classification model for detecting the presence of bees. Our project involves training an object detection model that can identify bees, which we will then u...
- 15 Apr 2023
Bee Healthy - Blog 12: Node-Red Dashboard

ralphjy

There are only a couple of weeks left in this challenge, so we've entered the home stretch. I've made some changes to what I display on the Node-Red Project dashboard. To the Bee Hive Monitor group that displays the internal hive environment ...
- 15 Apr 2023