11-A Study of Climate Impact on Stingless Bee IoT Applications

A Study and Analysis of Climate Impact on Stingless Bee (Trigona Itama) through Internet of Things (IoT) Applications

Environmental factors influence the honey production of stingless bees, therefore, it is important to develop a system of indicators to assess it. Manual collection of data for chosen factors can be sporadic and produce variations from incorrect measurement taking; this can cause complications in producing any important interpretation. However, the feasibility of online monitoring of bee hive based on IoT application, its limitation, and performance are not explored well. The ubiquity of advanced Wireless Sensor Network and information technologies has been a key enabler networking everyday objects. A collective physical items in a system equipped with “Internet of Things (IoT)” can communicate with each other while integrating the physical world with computer-based system in a more direct way, and greatly improving resources efficiency in addition to alleviate human intervention. If the information of the environment is being collected on the platform of IoT, there are several advantages: can reduce the effort and time required for monitoring a particular environment, the logging of data allows for reduced likelihood of data being misplaced or lost, and sensor nodes could be placed in critical spots without the need to put personnel in perilous situations. In this project we focus on understanding the impact of climate to stingless bee activities using IoT applications. We also aimed to present the theory to describe the behavior of the stingless bee and combine it with the population size, and the amount of honey productions, the theory will enable the estimation of honey production with bee health estimation models. Furthermore, all determined climate parameters, activities rates, population size, and honey productions values will be a set of reference to determine the health level of the stingless honey bee population estimated through two wellness functions from the inactive duration of the stingless bees and the excessive stresses on the colony.