1) HiveOS is a project that developed a remote monitoring system for bee hives using sensors to track conditions inside and outside hives and bee activity. 2) The system aims to help beekeepers by providing real-time information on hive conditions and bee behavior to allow more proactive management. 3) A variety of sensors measure factors like temperature, humidity, weight, video to track bee ingress/egress patterns which integrate on a open-source platform called HiveOS.

1. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
HIVEOS AS RESULT OF SMARTHONEY
19th International Conference on Information Systems
for Agriculture and Forestry
TU Dresden 14 – 15 September 2015
Project funded by

2. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
SMARTHONEY TEAM
Supported by IMCS of The
University of Latvia
Supported by
WirelessInfo

3. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
BEEKEPERS TEAM
Dr. Agr Baiba
Tikuma
Bee Researcher
Sandra Brūne &
Dzintars Brūns
Family of
beekeepers
Viesturs
Karlivāns
Manages more
than 100 hives
Jaroslav Kučera
Czech
beekeeper

4. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
HARDWARE TEAM
Viktors Zotovs
Senior
Engeneer HW
development
Klāvs Taube
Embedded
computing
Marek Musil
Gateway
designer
Zbynek
Krivanek
Sensor expert

5. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
SOFTWARE TEAM
Madars Zvaigzne
Optical character
recognition, Java
Marek Šplíchal
FIWARE Expert
Michal Kepka
FIWARE Expert
Michal Šrédl
FIWARE Expert

6. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT TEAM
Karel Charvat
ICT & SDI
Manager
Technical Director
Uģis Grīnbergs
Development
manager
Kaspars Skalbergs
Marketing
manager

7. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM
The main issue of beekeeping is to be proactive. Beekeepers need
to be inform in advance or in time, what happened in hive
 Beekeeper need to know about swarming before it happens.
 Beekeeper need to know what is momentary activity of the bees.
 Beekeepers need to be inform about amount of honey
 Beekeepers need to be inform about amount of food
 Microclimate inside and outside of the hive

8. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
OUR SOLUTION
BeekeeperWSN Hive HiveOS
100% of FI WARE

9. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
MEASUREMENT
Papouch TH2E
combined
relative humidity
and temperature
sensors
Papouch
temperature
sensor for hive
nest monitoring
WSN node with 9
hive internal and
external sensors
connected

10. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
MEASUREMENT
Weight of Hive
Meteostation for
Outside
conditions
Humidity inside of
Hive

11. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
BEE REALTIME ACTIVITY CONTROL
Video monitoring
with optical
character
recognition and
statistical analysis
of bee movement
balance IN/OUT
Video capturing
with low resolution
camera and
analysis with
Raspberry Pi
computer
Optical character
recognition is built
using Java, running
on standard
Raspbian OS.

12. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
HIVEOS
Our solution
answering
beekeepers
needs
Open modular
scalable
platform

13. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
HIVEOS

14. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
HIVEOS

15. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
HONEY WORDMARKET

16. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
EUROPEAN SITUATION
No colonies(percentage of total) No beekeepers(percentage of total) Mean no colonies/beekeeper Mean no colonies/km2
Austria 367 583 (2.7%) 24 453 (4.0%) 15.0 4.4
Belgium 110 000 (0.8%) 10 000 (1.6%) 11.0 3.6
Bulgaria 613 262 (4.4%) 27 477 (4.4%) 22.3 5.5
Cyprus 40 066 (0.3%) 552 (0.1%) 72.6 4.3
Czech Republic 517 300 (3.7%) 46 600 (7.5%) 11.1 6.6
Denmark 170 000 (1.2%) 5 000 (0.8%) 34.0 3.9
Estonia 42 000 (0.3%) 3 080 (0.5%) 13.6 1.0
Finland 37 500 (0.3%) 2 500 (0.4%) 15.0 0.1
France 1 346 575 (9.7%) 69 237 (11.2%) 19.5 2.5
Germany 680 000 (4.9%) 89 000 (14.4%) 7.6 1.9
Greece 1 500 000 (10.8%) 20 000 (3.2%) 75.0 11.4
Hungary 995 812 (7.2%) 17 556 (2.8%) 56.7 10.7
Ireland 24 000 (0.2%) 2 200 (0.4%) 10.9 0.3
Italy 1 127 000 (8.1%) 70 000 (11.3%) 16.1 3.7
Kosovo 70 664 (0.5%) 6 453 (1.0%) 11.0 6.5
Latvia 64 133 (0.5%) 3 500 (0.6%) 18.3 1.0
Lithuania 117 977 (0.9%) 4 565 (0.7%) 25.8 1.8
Netherlands 80 000 (0.6%) 8 000 (1.3%) 10.0 1.9
Norway 50 000 (0.4%) 3 000 (0.5%) 16.7 0.1
Poland 1 122 396 (8.1%) 44 951 (7.3%) 25.0 3.6
Portugal 580 065 (4.2%) 17 291 (2.8%) 33.6 6.3
Romania 963 342 (7.0%) 41 794 (6.8%) 23.1 4.0
Slovakia 246 214 (1.8%) 15 709 (2.5%) 15.7 5.0
Slovenia 156 178 (1.1%) 9 100 (1.5%) 17.2 7.7
Spain 2 498 003 (18.0%) 24 251 (3.9%) 103.0 4.9
Sweden 125 000 (0.9%) 12 000 (1.9%) 10.4 0.3
United Kingdom 200 000 (1.4%) 40 000 (6.5%) 5.0 1.3
Europe 13 845 070 618 269 (100%) 22.4 4.2

17. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
COMPETITORS
 Arnia’s state of the art remote hive monitoring system was designed by
beekeepers for beekeepers. Other systems are focused usually only on the
hive weight. It could be mentioned
 BeeWise - product to remote monitor hives by measuring their weight
using SMS technology accessible from any mobile phone.
 BeeWatch Professional Scale - Swienty Beekeeping Equipment.
 Hivemind is a nifty little box designed to remotely track how much honey is
in your beehives.

18. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
BUSSINES MODEL
Key Partner Key activities Value Proposition
Customer
relationships
Customer
segments
• Beekeepers
• Indirectly:
• Agricultural cooperatives
• Stakeholders from agrifood
sector
• Associations of consumers
• Sensors producers
• Service organisation
• IT developers
• Hive producers
• Sensors deployment
• Deployment of HiveOS
• Sensor deployment
• System maintenance
• Innovation training
• Marketing
• Presentation to investors
• Monitoring system of bee
hives and their
surroundings
• Integrated solution: tags
system + easy-to-use
interface for end users.
• Access the analysis
• Installation of customized
solutions
• Training
• Remote Assistance
• Regular interactive
contacts
• Feedback
• Beekeepers
• Large bee farms
• Medium & small bee
farms
• Advisory services
• Sensors producers
• Investors interested in
innovation.
.Key
resources
Promotion
Channels
• Technology infrastructure
• Server architecture
• Hardware infrastructure
• Direct connections
• Contacting through local,
regional and national
beekeeping organizations
• Informative emails
• Exploiting the multiplier
effect of social platforms
• By advertising demo
videos
Cost structures Revenue streams
• Technology costs – sensors and related hardware
• HiveOS development and maintenance
• Customised services based on the final output – sensor networks and entire
system for decision making in beekeeping.

19. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
HOW TO GROW
Replace part
of own
development
by COTS
products
Cooperation
with Hive
producers
Decrease
the costs of
sensors
China Mission
Plug and
play sensors
Cooperation
with Turkey

20. Project funded by wirecloud.hiveos.eu
CONTACTS
 http://wirecloud.hiveos.eu
 charvat@lesprojekt.cz
 skalbergs@bosc.lv