Monitoring Beehive Sound Levels with Arduino-based System

Abstract

An automated beekeeping is a promising approach to addressing various issues associated with a beekeeping. Among primary problems, a swarming procedure stands out as a major concern. An uncontrolled swarming can lead to significant financial losses. During a swarming period a potential for losing a bee swarm is high, therefore a noise monitoring at this period gains a significant importance. Our long term research aims at a development of an intelligent monitoring system for beehive conditions, based on a hive-generated noises analysis. This paper presents an experiment that collected data about acoustic characteristics of bee states using an Arduino microcontroller and a MAX9814 microphone module. The obtained data analysis is discussed.