Beehive Ventiliation System
Team Members Heading link
- Claire Chappee
- Dharani Mekala
- Dua Shehadeh
- Tsion Solomon
Project Description Heading link
The bee population is drastically declining due to climate change and temperature variations in the environment. Our project focuses on obtaining and regulating temperature levels in the hive with sensor and ventilation technology. If no action is taken, similar effects in the immediate future will continue to take place. Increasing the bee population was the main objective of this project. We concentrated primarily on growing the population of bees on UIC’s campus. Nurture Gaia constructed a ventilation system that will aerate air into the bee box when the temperature inside the bee environment has risen. Data was collected to keep track of the temperatures within the bee box. The data will be available for beekeepers to access in order to keep note of temperature changes within the targeted range or extreme temperatures above 90 or below 40. For the system, a Raspberry Pi is connected to a Wi-Fi to transfer and display temperature data on a slack channel. The Raspberry pi activates the fan based on placed temperature parameters for the beehive. It is powered by an electrical powerbank that would keep the system on for at least eight hours until the powerbank is recharged or replaced. As of now, there are no combined urban monitoring and ventilation systems designed for bees. Our preliminary design is based on the body frame of UIC’s bee box.