How much would a hive monitoring system have to cost to be widely accepted?

Blacksheep · June 28, 2015, 09:36:02 AM

Why go to all that trouble?If your to busy or lazy to check the bees just go to the store and buy some honey!Sell the hives!

Smertrios · June 28, 2015, 11:38:28 AM

Doubt this would prevent hive management its more of a management tool to help prevent hive problems simply because hives can't in any reasonable way be checked 24/7 without it.

Smertrios · June 28, 2015, 12:55:27 PM

Quick net search...
http://hivetool.org/w/index.php?title=HiveTool.org!

Its $50 for the scale and $100 for a "complete system" at least those are the goals

flyboy · June 28, 2015, 01:33:36 PM

I am not in favour of wifi. I don't have it in my house because it gives me a headache, so I cannot imagine it beeing a boon to the bees.

Smertrios · June 29, 2015, 02:29:37 AM

That is unfortunate considering WIFI is just about everywhere in the cities!

flyboy · June 29, 2015, 01:02:02 PM

Quote from: Smertrios on June 29, 2015, 02:29:37 AM
That is unfortunate considering WIFI is just about everywhere in the cities!

I only seem to notice it when I am near the modem, but if I go to a TV store I start getting sleepy after a while. I am a retired pilot and years of wearing active sound suppressing headsets at high altitudes must have conspired to make me susceptible. Also as a musician (amateur) using stereo headsets and headset mics for hours probably didn't help.

We have a cell but only use it when necessary.

Re: the bees, I have heard rumours and seen lots of youtubes. that cell towers affect them. I am not inclined to believe the studies that say that this was disproved because there is lots of science epidemiological work done by a number of authors such as Dr Milham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh2rq3-DbRs who have shown that the problem is real. Science can be bought and the amount of money in the cellphone business can easily buy "properly done science".

A friend of mine is an electrical engineer. A friend of his, a recently retired school principal, moved into a building and suddenly started to have serious heart issues. Weird heartbeats etc. Then he had a heart attack and died within about 6 months. This guy was quite active having been into karate and before he died Tai Chi.

My friend went into his apartment after he died and took a trifield meter. The EMF was generally a bit high, but in the bedroom it was off the clock. The superintendent let him into the parking garage and sure enough right below the bedroom there was a whole bunch (I believe 18) of Smart meters. The Electric utility of course disregarded the complaint. So my friend took some metal window screen and made a cap to go over his meter glass, then he ran a wire from that to the earth. This cut down about 75% of the signal, which is enough to eliminate the problem to a large degree and the electric company seemed to not notice because the signal output is a lot more than necessary. His math showed that the wifi was pulsing about 1500 times per day.

Basically a radio transmitter is a microwave that is transmitting all the time, even when no calls are being made. Any pilot out of school knows it is bad karma to leave a RADAR transmitter on at anytime when on the ground because when RADAR first came out during WW2 the ground crews could feel a warm sensation in their.... you know, ahem privates. This was known to lead to sterility.

Cell towers are even worse than radio transmitters because they have had laws passed that allow them to be plunked down in housing areas as long as the tower is less than a certain height above ground level so they get put on apartment buildings or telephone poles.

If you go onto YT you can see vids on cancer clusters, PPL with serious health issues of various kinds around cell towers, but most PPL have no idea because it does not occur to them to look because the PPL who own the cell towers also own the media outlets. You are best to be about 1 to 1.5 KM from a cell tower. (.6 to .9 miles)

http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/cancellsites.html
http://www.antennasearch.com/

Smertrios · August 04, 2015, 04:01:08 PM

I'm not sure I can make a sensor that is cheap enough to be "cheap". I've tried what I had in my head and it took too much to make it work and I'm not as confident it would hold up under a sustained weight.