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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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