BeeBuzz | Devpost

The Raspberry Pi along with the DHT 22 sensor
Homepage
Homepage
Our solution page
The map page which displays location of the hive and the current temperature and humidity
The values logged in the database

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Inspiration 🍯

Did you know that...

🐝 Honey bees perform about 80% of all pollination worldwide
🐝 70 of the top 100 human food crops — which supply about 90% of the world’s nutrition — are pollinated by bees.

But also...

🐝 Honey bees have declined from about 6 million hives to 2.4 million hives, a 60% reduction, from 1947 to 2008
🐝 In the US the number of bee colonies per hectare has declined by 90% since 1962

There are various factors affecting the bees' lifespan, some of which are:
👉 Drought
👉 Habitat destruction
👉 Pesticides
👉 Global warming
👉 Air pollution
👉 Nutrition deficit

Solving even some of these issues can drastically improve the outlook for bees, which is what we aim to do with BeeBuzz. 🐝

What it does 🍯

BeeBuzz consists of sensors and a webpage which:
🐝 enable beekeepers to map 🗺 their hives
🐝 track the hives' condition
🐝 notify for any abnormalities in the temperature and humidity level of the hives
🐝 Save the data to a database for retention

How we built it 🍯

BeeBuzz is saving the bees with the help of:
👉 Figma
👉 HTML & CSS
👉 JavaScript
👉 Python
👉 Bootstrap
👉 Flask
👉 CockroachDB
👉 Raspberry Pi
👉 DHT 22 Temperature and Humidity sensor

Challenges we ran into 🍯

⌛ Creating the whole project within such a short time frame was certainly a challenge for us
⌛ It was the first time we experimented with hardware and debugging was difficult as we were using the Raspberry Pi's GPIO for the first time

Accomplishments that we're proud of 🍯

👏 We are proud of finishing it and submitting it to this hackathon
👏 We managed to successfully get real time readings from the sensor which we thought was quite difficult!

What we learned 🍯

🐝 How to interact with the Pi's GPIO in real time
🐝 Getting sensor values in real time
🐝 Implementing CockroachDB in our project

What's next for BeeBuzz 🍯

👉 We plan to add an array of sensors, so one Raspberry Pi can manage lots of sensors thus reducing the cost
👉 We also plan to use i2C based addressing for sensors, so we can push the limits of the Pi and add lots of sensors to one single Raspberry Pi