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Video: Update on Honeybee Hive Monitoring Prototype

A project log for Honeybee Hive Monitoring

Recording weight, hive temperature, and weather data toward better management and understanding of honeybees.

ken-meyerKen Meyer 09/28/2014 at 20:310 Comments

Here's a quick update video on the status of the Honeybee Hive Monitoring Prototype. It's under 5 minutes to meet the requirements of the Hackaday Prize competition rules, and I think it's a good summary of where the project stands and some of the future changes that will significantly improve the system's performance.

I'm back on 0.75 MB/s upload speed after switching from a nationally renouned cable company (in the US) to a regionally dominant phone company after I got fed up with supporting questionable business practices by the cable company and barely faster speeds.

That said, as soon as my next video finishes uploading (hours from now), I'll add an update with a link to the video demonstrating that my system is, in fact, sending data via 900 MHz XBee from the Apitronics Bee module to the Beaglebone Black Hive, making it available on the local network via a webpage interface written by Apitronics.

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