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The Makers' Beehives: Smart Beehives for Monitoring Honey-Bees' Activities

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Honey-bees play an important role in a range of human activities, such as medicine, nutrition, agriculture, and much more. The most vital activity of bees is pollination. Bees and other pollinating insects are on the brink of extinction, mainly due to intensive agriculture, pesticides, habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. This worrisome decline in the population of bees threatens agricultural, and human welfare. Therefore, protecting the population of bees is a major concern. In this perspective, the Makers' Beehives project aims at developing an innovative beekeeping system capable of automatically assessing the health and threat status of honey-bees' colonies by means of Internet of things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this paper, we describe the developed system and report preliminary results.

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        IoT '19: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things
        October 2019
        263 pages
        ISBN:9781450372077
        DOI:10.1145/3365871
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        Published: 22 October 2019

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        1. artificial intelligence
        2. beekeeping
        3. internet of things
        4. machine learning
        5. smart agriculture

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