I'm very excited to say that my electronic hive temperature and humidity monitoring devices, aka the
BroodMinder, have arrived! If you've been reading this blog you know that I've been playing around with my own electronic hive monitoring electronics using an Arduino. Although it worked, I couldn't really find a good way of deploying it and keeping it powered. Well, some very talented people have done a lot more (and better) thinking about this and have made it a reality. The weather is looking good this weekend and hopefully I will have them installed!
You can read all about how they work in the link to their Indiegogo page above, but basically you place the device right below your inner cover (above the brood) and using low power blue tooth it transmits the data to an app on your smart phone. Pretty sweet!
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| BroodMinders ready to go! |
I bought three of them and plan to place them on the cutout hive, the split (combined) hive and either the Green or White hive. They both have the same number of boxes but one has an Italian queen and the other has the queen I bought from the Northern Bee Network. I guess you'll find out which one I decided on after I deploy them.
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| The App |
Hopefully these little gems will help me to monitor the hives over the winter without opening them.
Until next time, thanks for reading!
