A world grid of remotely-monitored hives is utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI) and cloud computing to analyse the well being of worldwide bee populations, and engineer lasting options to reverse their decline.
Pesticides, habitat loss and local weather change are among the causes behind shrinking populations of significant pollinators.
Beekeepers have lengthy used industrial hive sensors to trace the well being of particular person colonies, however the World Hive Community has gone one step additional by making a ‘hive thoughts’, within the truest sense of the phrase. It hyperlinks 2.5bn bees in 50,000 hives to data-crunching software program. Sensors in every hive measure a spread of variables together with weight, temperature, humidity, sound and ambient climate.
The community is an initiative of the The World Bee Undertaking CIC, launched eight years in the past by social entrepreneur Sabiha Malik, with the goal of utilizing AI to assist deal with pollinator and biodiversity decline, meals insecurity and local weather change.
“Bees lie on the coronary heart of the relationships that bind the pure and human worlds, and in safeguarding bees lies the means to safeguard life itself,” says The World Bee Undertaking.
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