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I received a prize package from element14 today that included both the finisher prize and a mystery prize for my project on saving bees: Here is a video showing what was in the mystery package.... …

Back in March around the start of the Save the Bees Challenge, I had encountered a honey bee hive in a greenspace near an office building - Bees at Work in Oregon . Today, while I was out walking the older granddog, we walked by that same beehive. It…

Detecting external parasites such as Varroa mites is very important To save The bees. In this Project, In this project, I have to build a smart hive, in the hive entry I created a bee counter system using IR LED and Photodiode. once the bee is found entry…

Sugar shaking Sugar shaking of honey bees is a passive method to detect external parasites such as Varroa mites, Tropilaelaps mites, and Braula fly. It is a quick and easy method that does not kill the honey bees sampled. The method works by the fine…

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 are…

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 change this while…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Intro This 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 display…

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 board, so let’s take a look at…

In the last posting, I managed to put my assembled breadboards each containing an MKR WAN 1310 outside to collect environmental data in-situ. While the boards sit outside inside a plastic box “hive”, experiencing the harsh environment of the outside,…

Intro This is my first go at getting a color display working for the base station. This display is a 320 x 240 TFT 2.8" LCD. It took some scrounging to discover how to send it proper information, especially graphics data, but at least the hardware connections…

In the previous blog, I was able to get a particulate monitor that requires 5V to operate just fine from a battery and in a way which is rather efficient enough that solar power was not an immediate requirement. Nevertheless, to transition the system…

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…

Unfortunately, my kits are currently held up at customs, and the cost to release them is almost as much as buying a new set. So, I have decided to purchase the MKRWAN 13310 continue with my project. While I await the arrival of the new equipment, I have…

In the last blog post, I successfully built a battery-operated LoRaWAN-connected environmental sensor that measures temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and light intensity via an Omron evaluation module in the MKR form factor. The sensor power…

Welcome to the #blog5 of IoT Bee Hive monitor. In the previous blog, we created a classification model to detect bees and implemented bee count using the FOMO object detection model. In this blog, we will discuss the bee colonies, analyse the collected…

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…

Introduction The is my very first blog for "Save The Bees Design Challenge". Thanks to Element14 for choosing me one of the challengers for the contest. For the last two months I read several research paper about bees. From my study I realized that…

All around the world, there is overwhelming evidence that pollinator communities are both changing and declining. Key drivers of these changes include land use change, changes in land management including the use of pesticides and genetically modified…