Smart farming

Hive monitoring

Sensors under and inside your hives record weight, temperature and humidity, so the beekeeper can follow your colonies through the season without opening the hive.

What the readings show

• Weight. A hive gets heavier when the bees bring in nectar — on a good day by several kilos. A sudden drop of two or three kilos can mean a swarm has left. In autumn and winter, the slow loss shows how fast the bees are eating their stores.
• Temperature. A healthy colony keeps its brood at about 34–35 °C. A colony that weakens or loses its queen struggles to hold it, and a dead one cools down to the outside temperature.
• Humidity. How damp the air inside the hive is, which the bees manage themselves by fanning their wings.

What you receive

Live readings of your monitored hives, online. A weight curve tells the story of a season better than any brochure: spring build-up, the nectar flow, the summer gap, the winter stores. If you want the readings in a spreadsheet, we export them on request.

Price: €2,000 per monitored hive, per year, excluding VAT. Without sensors there is no monitoring; the beekeeper’s records of your colonies at the start and end of the season are always included.

Put it on a screen

Put a screen in reception or by the coffee machine, and your hive’s weight and temperature are there, live, all day. Watching it put on weight during a nectar flow is more gripping than it sounds. You provide the screen and the cabling; we set it up at no extra charge.

Pollen analysis

Once a year, a sample of the pollen your bees bring home goes to a laboratory, which identifies the plants it came from. You receive the list of plants your bees visited. With hives on your roof, one analysis a year is our gift; for hives in our apiaries it is available on request.

• Hives on your roof. Bees collect most of their pollen within a kilometre or two, so the analysis describes the plants around your building. That is data you can use in the biodiversity part of your sustainability report, if biodiversity is a material topic for your company (GRI 101, ESRS E4).
• Hives in our apiaries. The analysis describes the flora of the Boeotian mountains where your bees live. A good story to tell, but it says nothing about your own company’s impact on nature.

What they cannot do

Sensors tell us about the colony; they do not measure biodiversity or carbon. A pollen analysis tells you which plants are there; it does not show that your company made nature better. Neither earns points under LEED, BREEAM or WELL. What they do give you is real data instead of slogans.

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