Remotely controlled bee hive closing up system

[vasilbvbg]

Hi there,

I'd like to share with all of you this innovation of mine. I hope it might be useful, please feel absolutelly free to use this in your personal projects! Any comments are welcome.

I'm currently working on a project that is going to pop-up shortly. If you don't mind I'll inform you for this project as well when it's ready. Thank you!

Best Regards
Vasil Vasilev
Sofia, Bulgaria
vasilbvbg(at)gmail.com


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The innovation is related to automatics, telematics and implements in the beekeeping area. The goal is the system to assure bee hive colony closing up simultaneous in multiple bee hives during periods of poison hazard without manual activities to be necessary. Using a rectangular frame fixed immediately to the front panel of the hive and a mobile door moved by electrical motor the system provides bee hive colony close up into the hive. A local controller drives the process on hive level. A central controller provides central communication between the multiple hive local controllers and the operator. The telematics system provides control on group level on unlimited count of hives, thus rising significantly work beekeeper work efficiency when the number of the hives is high. The system protects the bee colonies through isolation always when it is necessary. This way the system helps in bee extinction preventing.

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[Acebird]

Power requirements, logistics and cost... reliability?

[vasilbvbg]

Good questions indeed! So that system is under construction now, usually there is long way from blueprint to the reality. I'm working with my team and we have done a lot especially about the electronics and communication devices. We have choosen low consumption chips. The power supply will be provided also by inexpensive elements, I know this is a very sensitive pont for all the beekeepers. So nobody will force you to change the batteries every month :)
I'll inform you as soon as we have something for you.

[vasilbvbg]

Hi there,
I?m really happy to inform you our project Hermes Smart have started now! You are welcome to check site www.hermessmart.eu for more info.
BR, Vasil

[BeeMaster2]

This project as detailed looks like a non starter. If you have to add a large box in front of every hive, commercial beeks will not use it. It would not fit on their pallets with this extension. If you have to replace batteries every month, it would not be worth it. Maybe a hobbyist might buy it.

Please read the bylaws on advertising on this site before you make your next post.
Jim

[vasilbvbg]

Hi Jim,

You might be right as well. The batteries issue is going to be fixed. But I'm not going to bother you more, sorry if I have break your site rules.
Please feel free to delete this thread without further notification if necessary, I'm OK with this.

BR
Vasil