I'm wondering why one needs to open the hive & smoke them......why not just shove the phone into the entrance? It seems that would be less invasive to begin with...... :s
I have developed an app that can tell if there are any mites in the hives. And its free. You can thank me later.Does this mean it can tell us if there are any mites in the hives?
Alex
You are correct Tim KS. No need to open the hive and smoke them. Just slide the smartphone in to the hive entrance and listen for 30 seconds.I'm wondering why one needs to open the hive & smoke them......why not just shove the phone into the entrance? It seems that would be less invasive to begin with...... :s
That looks a bit pricey if you have 25+ hives.......
That looks a bit pricey if you have 25+ hives.......
I might consider the kickstarter project if there was a PayPal link.
I have seen the OSbeehives.com too. It does not do the same thing, unfortunately. It just listens to the bees and looks at weight and temperature, but does not compare to a database of just-sick-with-one-health-issue sounds as our app does. It also is a piece of electronics that gets attached to the hive. Ours is a smartphone app.
I'm curious about a couple things, David. The goal was $13400, what happens to the money in excess of that? And, do you have a sense of how much the app will cost in its full form after the beta phase?There are just 10 days left to get a pre-release version of the Bee Health Guru - a smartphone app that listens to bees and tells you what is wrong with them.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beehealthguru/bee-health-guru-a-smartphone-app-for-beekeepers
The Bee Health Guru is an Android and Apple iOS smartphone that our team of Montana bee researchers have been working on for almost a decade. Our lead researchers have been working with bees for over 30 years each, and from that and working with thousands of beekeepers around the world they have always suspected that bees made different noises when they had different things wrong with them.
Using sophisticated research techniques and state of the art audio equipment that we've shipped to expert beekeepers around the world, our team has collected the specific sounds bees make when they are not well. Then we coupled that with our specially developed artificial intelligence (AI) programming to bring you a smartphone app that takes just 30 seconds to listen to your bees and then uses our proprietary database of sounds and AI to tell you within seconds what, if anything, is wrong with your bees.