Climate Changed
Swedish Researchers Connect 160,000 Bees to the Internet
- Software consultant Tieto puts sensors in two Swedish beehives
- Project aims to help understand why pollinators are vanishing
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A digital beehive may be the next step to help understand why the number of bees and other pollinating insects is falling rapidly.
Nordic software consultant Tieto Oyj has placed sensors in two beehives in Sweden, connecting some 80,000 bees in each to the Internet. The hives send data to the off-site servers where it can be remotely accessed in real time, and soon artificial intelligence algorithms will be used to analyze the information.