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Helping Bee Keepers

Helping Bee Keepers
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Did you know that Bees are responsible for pollinating a wide variety of crops, without them most of our crops will be in our memories, and not on our plates!

This week IP Wave looks at an innovative startup helping Bee Keepers, read on.

Beewise Beehome One of The Best Inventions of 2020 according to TIME.



Thank you for your warm response to my kick-off communication with you. In this communication, I would like to introduce a startup which is focused on deploying cutting edge technology in bee-keeping. The activity which helps grass-roots or tribal in India to offer livelihood. In India, many tribal bee-keepers are struggling on dealing with access benefit sharing (ABS) with National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) while selling the natural honey which is an issue to deal but while keeping the ABS aside, today, we will discuss the technical solution catalyzing the bee-keeping.

Saar Safra, an Israeli tech entrepreneur developed an innovative technology solution, who in 2018, decided to deploy the solution through a startup - 'Beewise Technologies'

A tech solution offering world's first and only robotic beehive (a dome-shaped or boxlike structure in which bees are kept). Beewise won prestigious global awards for the deployment of this innovation. Saar Safra's mission is to offer a solution which can help beekeepers pollinate and produce honey by saving their bees utilising sophisticated technology.

 

Let's understand what Beewise Technologies 

 

Currently majority of the bee-keeping activities are carried out by traditionally developed wooden box design developed in 1850s by Loranzo Langstroth (over 170 Yrs before). Bees are crucial to the world's food supply, pollinating 75% of crops. An astonishing 40% of bees die every year as a result of disease, pesticides and climate change. Beekeepers have hundreds of beehives, unable to check on the bees in any particular hive every few weeks, often arriving too late to solve problems that arise.

Beewise has developed Beehome, an artificial-•intelligence-powered Beehive that houses up to 40 colonies were more than one million bees can live together. Beehome uses precision robotics, computer vision and AI which costs $15 a month to monitor insects 24/7. Beehome´s sides are colorful vents where the bees enter and exit. The hive is completely solar-powered with rechargeable batteries.

 

Beehomes are equipped to manage climate (hot & cold) and humidity control. It also monitor pests within the hive and apply non-chemical treatment. To catalyze an automated harvesting, Beehomes can detect frames that are ready to harvests the Beehome containing 100 gallons. The Beehomes are using AI for autonomous swarm prevention and also gives an alerts while addressing real-time problems which are mostly handle on real-time basis.

The cutting-edge, smart Beehomes technology can double pollination capacity and honey production while reducing the disease to 8% (sharp decrease in population) using artificial intelligence, robotics and software developed at Beewise. The tech driven solution is not just helping the efficient management of hive but also offers saving the bees, improving their yield and also improving pollination.

 

Under the auspicious goals of 'Aatmanirbhar bharat' for creating rural sustainability enterprises, the tech-driven operations in bee-keeping is directly going to offer benefits to the rural community. The National Beekeeping and Honey Mission was announced by the Union Government as part of the Atma Nirbhar Bharat package in 2020. The scheme is implemented by the National Bee Board (NBB) and is approved for three years from 2020 to 2023. Time for Indian innovators to explore developing such cutting edge technology to promote the growth of Sweet Revolution by developing societal solutions for honey testing, bee disease diagnostics, custom hiring centres, Api-therapy centres, nucleus stock, bee breeders, etc. Certainly the innovation in beekeeping is directly going to empowerment the women and rural community through beekeeping.

 


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