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A Self-Powered Smart Beehive Monitoring and Control System (SBMaCS) uses IoT to address beekeeper challenges. This system enhances bee colony security and honey productivity through remote monitoring and control, overcoming energy limitations with harvested power.

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  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Environmental Monitoring

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  • Traditional beekeeping faces challenges like market access, colony losses (CCD, pests, climate), and uncontrolled environmental conditions impacting honey production.
  • Lack of real-time monitoring systems for temperature, humidity, and other hive parameters hinders effective beekeeping management and leads to significant colony losses.
  • Existing Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for smart beekeeping often face energy constraints in embedded electronic devices, limiting their practical application.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and develop a Self-Powered Smart Beehive Monitoring and Control System (SBMaCS) leveraging IoT technology.
  • To enhance bee colony security and increase honey productivity through remote monitoring and control capabilities.
  • To address the energy autonomy challenge in IoT devices by integrating energy harvesting techniques.

Main Methods:

  • Development of an SBMaCS hardware prototype integrating sensors for temperature, humidity, weight (piezoelectric transducer), motion, and flame detection.
  • Implementation of energy harvesting models, including energy from bee vibrations, piezoelectric transduction, and radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting, to ensure system self-powering.
  • Creation of a mobile application for remote interaction with the SBMaCS hardware, enabling monitoring and control of critical beehive parameters.

Main Results:

  • Successful development of a functional SBMaCS hardware prototype and a user-friendly mobile application.
  • Demonstration of energy harvesting capabilities from ambient sources to power the IoT nodes, achieving energy autonomy.
  • Validation of the system's potential to remotely monitor and control beehive environmental conditions and security.

Conclusions:

  • The SBMaCS offers a viable solution for modernizing beekeeping practices by providing remote monitoring and control capabilities.
  • Integrating energy harvesting significantly improves the sustainability and practicality of IoT-based beekeeping systems.
  • The SBMaCS has the potential to improve honey productivity and enhance the security of bee colonies, supporting beekeepers globally.