An IoT and Wireless Sensor Network-Based Technology for a Low-Cost Precision Apiculture

Abstract

The current environmental ramifications due to industrial agriculture, climate change, and pathogens have destructed the habitat and loss of biodiversity. These ecological modifications have threatened the apiculture including the bees and wild pollinators which plays a vital role and are indispensable in the terrestrial ecosystems. This chapter presents the foundational space of apiculture, challenges, and emerging techniques of the apiarists in beekeeping including precision apiculture, and a low-cost IoT and remote sensing technology deployed for data gathering and monitoring the vigor and productivity of beehive colonies. The system has redundancy components and utilized the three-level hierarchical model including wireless node, local information server, and the cloud data server. The system also consists of sensors deployed across distinct locations to capture the beehives' temperature, relative humidity, and loads of the hives and honeycombs, and stored to the local and cloud server. This system will complement the urgent need to countervail the honeybee colonies' collapse by helping the apiarists, apiculture subsector, and agriculture sector to embark emerging precision apiculture technologies.