Beehiveior - Sistema de monitoramento e controle de colmeias de produção apícola

摘要

Bees are very important animals to the global ecosystem, mainly for theiractive role in pollination process of many plants on the planet. Beekeeping, currentlydefined as the rational creation of bees, is a global economic activity that annuallymoves a millionaire market. The efficient development of beekeeping involvesnumerous challenges in many aspects, ranging from daily activities to keep the apiaryuntil monitor the behavior of bees and the apiary environment. The UEPA-EAJ (anunit for explore bee products at Jundiaí’s agricultural school) is a center for activities,studies and research on beekeeping in Brazil-RN. This work proposes thedevelopment of tool with computational resources and composed by automation andcontrol devices, with the goal to give a better basis for the studies and researchescarried out by UEPA-EAJ, as well to improve the daily activities to maintain theapiary of this unit. The developed tool, called beehiveior, was split in two modulesthat works independents: one piece for automation and control, which collects andsends hive's data, and a web application that processes, stores and displays thecollected data. Low cost hardware, recyclable and/or easily found was used in buildprocess of automation piece. The project leaves as result the web application,automation codes, the report of the experiments and a comparative analysis of theBeehiveior against the related works. Currently the project is able to monitor somedata from hive such temperature and humidity, send collected data by an Ethernetwired network or by transfer the data stored locally on a memory card and displaythese values in the Web application showing them with charts and tables.