Smart Beehive with Arduino Monitoring

The aim of this work was to make a protective system of the beehive, with automatic measurement of the mass of the beehive, construction of the alarm system and detection of the movement in the vicinity of the apiary. The steps of making and protecting a smart beehive are shown. The paper describes the components of the system and lists their technical characteristics. The Arduino Uno board as hardware and Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment) as software are exploited in order to develop the system described here and to monitor selected parameters of the beehive. The sensors are chosen to measure the mass of the beehive, to detect the opening or tilting of the hive lid, to make sound alarm in case the hive is being tampered with, to make sound alarm in case intruder(s) are detected in the hive vicinity. Implementation and mounting of electrical components in the housing of the hive and the protective system are shown. It is explained how the alarm system works for protection of the beehive. The scale that reads the mass of the hive is used to assess the yield of honey as well as to detect if the beehive is lifted to be taken. A practical experiment was performed in order to test subsystems and integration into a system.