Hive Monitoring

Advisors: Richard Howard, Richard Martin

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

Overview

This study seeks to evaluate how bees are impacted by electromagnetic radio frequency (RF) waves emitted by humans. Similarly to how the lead epidemic has affected humans, radio frequency could prove to have an adverse effect on bee mortality.

Setup

Project Schematic: The apparatus connecting the hive and the outside will split into two identical paths made of glass tubes with coils surrounding the tubes. One coil at a time will generate a magnetic field. The camera positioned above the tubes will record videos of the bees moving between the hive and the outside. These videos will then be given to a neural network to detect patterns in the behavior of the bees due to the presence of the magnetic field.

A Raspberry Pi board positioned above the apparatus controls the magnetic field. A black box surrounding the area where the videos are being recorded blocks out external light and provides constant lumination from a lamp.

Progress

Week 1

Project Goal: The project's objective is to assess electromagnetic radio frequency (RF) impact on bees, particularly bee mortality, inspired by the lead epidemic's significance. It aims to examine how human-emitted RF affects bee populations and ecosystems.

Apparatus Mockup:

Machine Learning Analysis:

Week 2

Experiment Design:

Apparatus Construction:

Raspberry Pi:

Week 3

Camera Setup:

Data Collection:

Eliminating Extraneous Sources:

Week 4

Control Data:

Log File Formatting:

Fisheye Camera:

Week 5

Camera Calibration: The CV camera calibration library was opened. The camera needed to stop being distorted while being at a wide field view.

Week 6

Alternating Current Circuits:

Camera Distortion: A wooden frame was glued together to form a rectangle. To fill the area of this rectangle, cardboard was placed. Another frame was made but that area was to be filled with glass. The purpose of these two frames is to lodge the camera between them and see out the glass side. Another aspect of the camera that was worked on was the video footage itself, which needed to be less distorted.

Frame Dataset Corrections:

Week 7

Alternating Current Coil

Fixed the issues with the cropping in the video

Manually created datasets to run

Soldered wires to the resistors, wrapped wire around the glass tubes in the bee apparatus and connected the soldered wires to the Raspberry pi. Ran the circuit and collected data on bee motion with the AC current.

Camera: Two more IR lights are added in parallel for more even light distribution. The video capture code and undistortion code were combined. Power over ethernet was used as well.

Presentations

Week 1 ​https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MtKp_Q4kYj8rK5n1t4eCN10S3px53kY4lWW0k9Y2XSs/edit?usp=sharing
Week 2 ​https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ADvK4neFgE9My_yHJRX4hd7cKdQ70z3zusmd4PjSqkE/edit?usp=sharing
Week 3 ​https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gh0W6tGCZ73KXImxl8CZYhpTA0nsuiyrOs0CsUNcRbU/edit?usp=sharing
Week 4 ​https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pCnK6VBakeFyNgBYtZI9LUvJrwMotd29TzDQ_zN5YRw/edit?usp=sharing
Midway Progress ​https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BGfHoxGJ2W533OdZRhyn6lgF7OyR_DEVRs87jQCrT-Y/edit?usp=sharing
Week 6 ​https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uop2ytlSdMh5aFQvZgZPGiPWpo7b0tTZ4oaqu9TswJc/edit?usp=sharing
Week 7 ​https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k87TEy9SG5kleGvpUR2P4fqSRZFa3vHKRRMU991VSjY/edit?usp=sharing