Hive Monitoring

Advisors: Richard Howard, Richard Martin

Group Members: Tate Sparks, Shrinidhi Kesavan, Sarah Benedicto, Evan Kohut, Andrew Martin, Benjamin Yu

Overview

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Sensing and monitoring have the potential to make the next agricultural revolution. This project will use Long Range (LoRA) radios to send data from sensors monitoring a beehive at the Horticultural Farm 3 on the Cook Campus. Sensors may include a camera to count bees at the entrance, a microphone to monitor internal activity, and a scale to monitor weight changes. The system will be engineered to use little energy so it can be solar powered. The data will need to be sent using compressed representations, possibly using AI as a compression technique, to send data back to WINLAB over the radio. In addition, the entire data will be saved to local storage for additional analysis on compressive sensing algorithms.

Progress

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Week 1