Honey bee working the dark centre of a sunflower

Hive intelligence · now in beta

Hear the hive before you open it.

Weight, warmth, humidity and sound from every hive, every few minutes. Even when the mountain loses signal, not a reading is meant to be lost.

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The beekeeper's dilemma

Every inspection is a question you ask with a smoker.

Opening a box costs the colony heat and calm, and costs you a drive up the mountain. BeeCloud answers the everyday questions first, so the visits you make are the ones that matter.

How it improves the work
Two beekeepers inspecting a frame of comb
Honey bee standing on open honeycomb
Comb cells glowing amber, with eggs and brood

Four ways a colony speaks

A hive is never quiet. It just had no way to reach you.

Honey bee on a bright yellow flower

Weight

A hive that gains through the day is bringing in nectar. A flat line in the middle of a flow is worth a look.

Honey bee working the dark centre of a sunflower

Warmth

A healthy brood nest stays remarkably stable, in the mid-thirties Celsius. Drift against that baseline is a question to ask.

Honey bee inside an open water lily

Humidity

Top and bottom of the box, separately. At altitude, in wet seasons, the difference tells you how the hive is handling moisture.

Honey bee hovering in flight

Sound

A colony has a voice. BeeCloud keeps its frequency bands over time, so a change in the hum is something you can see.

One screen, the whole apiary

The nectar flow, drawn for you.

Follow one hive through the week, overlay several to spot the odd one out, and get an alert when something moves past a limit you set.

Colony sound, as frequency bands (illustration)

Hive 17 · weight, 7 days

+4.8 kg

Illustrative data

Brood

34.9 °C

Humidity

58 %

Battery

12.7 V

Built for bad signal

The mountain drops the connection. The reading waits.

  1. On the hive

    Holds 64 readings in memory that survives deep sleep

    A low-power node wakes, measures, sends and goes back to sleep. No network? It keeps the reading and tries again next cycle.

  2. At the apiary

    Keeps every message in a local database

    A gateway collects the whole apiary over Wi-Fi and forwards it over 4G. When the link drops, it stores, then replays in order.

  3. In BeeCloud

    Replays are harmless: duplicates are ignored

    Each reading lands once, however many times it arrives. If a stretch of data is missing, the platform notices and asks the gateway for it.

Field of red and pink poppies below distant mountains

Three quarters of the world's leading food crops benefit from animal pollination.

Why the colony comes first

Opening soon

We're widening the beta. Come in early.

More invitations are going out very soon. Tell us about your apiary and help shape what comes next.

Honey bee carrying orange pollen loads
Honey bee close up on white petals, carrying pollen