Recent content by KTemby

Hi Hombre, Thank you for your note and encouragement, the team and I really appreciate it! That's pretty awesome High Altitude Balloon flight folks solved similar problems too. Happy to let you know our goal of putting another 30 systems out into the field was successfully funded, and we're...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Finman. We hope researchers will find it useful too. We also hope everyday beekeepers will enjoy being able to see their bees remotely, and know how their bees are doing. I highly recommend checking out "At the Hive Entrance" by Storch. The theme is "How to...

Thanks for your thoughts Brendan, that's a cool page! We started out with the streaming video at first too, it's pretty awesomely satisfying to be able to see your bees remotely :) Now imagine if you could get the 'highlight reel', and be able to see the most interesting things that happened...

Hi Domino, thank you for your interest, I'm glad you find the project interesting!! Completely agree on microclimate being a big factor in bee activity, even just whether and when a hive gets sun throughout the day seems to have a big impact on activity. we found so far that wind is a pretty...

Hi bpmurray! Thanks for the warm welcome! I'm here to talk with beekeepers, especially those interested in innovation and technology like I am! I'd like to build the best device to help beekeepers see and keep track of their bees. The best way to do that is to ask for feedback from other...

Hi Anduril, Thanks for your question. Certainly the biggest surprise was detecting the orientation activity - it actually has a signal we can pick out using analytics. Here's one where we saw a different pattern - robbing - in the daily data. Our goal presently is to build up the...

Thanks for your encouragement icanhopit! Here's a picture that represented the turning point for me on whether the tech had real value - I didn't see it myself, but the data pretty clearly showed a drop in activity, that turned out to be a failed queen. A simple intervention of an extra couple...

I basically followed these instructions to build 6+ deep langstroths. Good fun. Don't bother making frames though, too much work to make decent jigs. agf.gov.bc.ca/apiculture/construction.pdf

We deal with SHB in central California. They become just another pest to deal with. - Keeping an eye on comb to bee ratio always helps. The bees can generally keep them under control if they don't have patrol an area too big inside the hive. - Any weak hive with an extra frame of honey is...

Hi! I'm a second generation beekeeper reconnecting with bees. Made a break from my rural Australia roots to become a medical robotics engineer in California designing telehealth robotic systems to help doctors treat patients remotely. When not developing a new algorithm or prototyping a robot...

Hope people want to talk about more than just that - I get to post a picture of some data once I hit 10 posts... looking forward to that.

Some pictures from our Beta

It's a project we have been running in our local beekeeping community in Santa Barbara California for the past year. Right now there are 15 hives monitored. There is a campaign to expand the program to 45 systems, we realize it's not for everyone, but if people are interested in the project...

Yes we do. We presently have 15 systems supporting our local community of beekeepers, and I help run our local association. The system is making it easier to better understand the state of bees in our local community, and we want to expand the project. We're aiming to identify patterns that...

Thanks again Pete. Our project is designed by beekeepers, for beekeepers, and we want to talk with other beekeepers about it!! We're hoping to create a mid to long form discussion to better understand what people are interested in, and we want to continue to improve the system to make more...