Multipurpose Beehive Based on PIC

A method of monitoring the health parameters of honeybee in a hive is provided by the PIC based beehive while allowing efficient bee management and the quality of the colony to be researched.

The design contains several functional areas of the beehive that are controlled, analyzed, and monitored by a PIC32 system controller. An embedded web server is used primarily to control the status and configuration of the remote beehive which is either by wired or wireless means of communication through internet. An optional feature is a cell phone with voice synthesis where the critical status information is alerted to the beekeeper.

Using standard sensors for relative air pressure, wind, rain, humidity, and temperature, the ambient conditions can be monitored. To determine the available bee flight hours per day, the daylight conditions will be monitored by a photo sensor. There are 10 frames contained in a brood box that comprise the beehive at minimum and the frames may contain honey, pollen to feed the brood, or eggs. Eight temperature sensors per frame will be available in order to map the brood cluster so the size or health of the hive can be determined.

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