A monitoring system for carbon dioxide and humidity in honeybee hives

Newton, MI, McVeigh, A, Tsakonas, C and Bencsik, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6278-0378, 2022. A monitoring system for carbon dioxide and humidity in honeybee hives. Engineering Proceedings, 27 (1): 89. ISSN 2673-4591

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Abstract

Two of the most relevant gasses correlating to honeybee colony health are likely carbon dioxide and humidity. Non-Dispersive Infra-Red (NDIR) detectors have become the dominant method for measuring atmospheric CO2. In this work, we describe a microcontroller-based system used to collect data from two models of these NDIR sensors that also provide humidity and temperature data. Placement in a frame in the brood box and in the crown board and queen excluder is investigated. With several thousands of hours of data for comparison, we demonstrate both the daily and long-term trends in these important gasses in multiple honeybee colonies.

Item Type:	Journal article
Description:	Paper presented at 9th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 1–15 November 2022
Publication Title:	Engineering Proceedings
Creators:	Newton, M.I., McVeigh, A., Tsakonas, C. and Bencsik, M.
Publisher:	MDPI
Date:	1 November 2022
Volume:	27
Number:	1
ISSN:	2673-4591
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.3390/ecsa-9-13171 DOI 1866187 Other
Rights:	© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	23 Feb 2024 14:45
Last Modified:	23 Feb 2024 14:45
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50932

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