As a more cost-effective solution for large apiaries, we want to reuse Robotic Beehive functionality and equip it with ability to move around the apiary to inspect hives on-demand or on-schedule.

Target audience

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Challenges / Requirements

• weather-proof hives
• bee-safe hives
• movement control across hives
• cost-efficient

Vision

We’ll use an improvement over Robotic Beehive but have it movable between hives. Design is not set yet and its up for the team to decide on the architecture

Apiary - beehives traditionally are positioned in a line Source - https://beeswiki.com/what-is-an-apiary/

Competition

Compared to competition (ex. ‣ and their Beehome), we are not doing a revolution in beekeeping that requires reinventing the beekeeping practices, throwing away existing beekeeping equipment (frames, sections). We are following evolutionary and adaptation approach:

• not risk bee healthy by having multiple colonies together in one congested space
• allow beekeeper to scale hive amount more flexibly, not limited to 12/24 hives per container
• allow beekeeper to keep using traditional, existing infrastructure (hive boxes and frames) for sustainability and ease of migration