A monitoring system for carbon dioxide in honeybee hives: an indicator of colony health

Bencsik, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6278-0378, McVeigh, A, Tsakonas, C, Kumar, T, Chamberlain, L and Newton, MI, 2023. A monitoring system for carbon dioxide in honeybee hives: an indicator of colony health. Sensors, 23 (7): 3588. ISSN 1424-8220

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Abstract

Non-dispersive infra-red (NDIR) detectors have become the dominant method for measuring atmospheric CO2, which is thought to be an important gas for honeybee colony health. In this work we describe a microcontroller-based system used to collect data from Senserion SCD41 NDIR sensors placed in the crown boards and queen excluders of honeybee colonies. The same sensors also provide relative humidity and temperature data. Several months of data have been recorded from four different hives. The mass change measurements, from hive scales, when foragers leave the hive were compared with the data from the gas sensors. Our data suggest that it is possible to estimate the colony size from the change in measured CO2, however no such link with the humidity is observed. Data are presented showing the CO2 decreasing over many weeks as a colony dies.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Sensors
Creators:	Bencsik, M., McVeigh, A., Tsakonas, C., Kumar, T., Chamberlain, L. and Newton, M.I.
Publisher:	MDPI
Date:	29 March 2023
Volume:	23
Number:	7
ISSN:	1424-8220
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.3390/s23073588 DOI 1866176 Other
Rights:	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:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	27 Feb 2024 10:28
Last Modified:	27 Feb 2024 10:28
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50952

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