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LA TECNOLOGIA VOL AJUDAR L'APICULTURA

 
Són cada dia més les investigacions que volen utilitzar la tecnologia com una eina per afavorir la viabilitat de l'apicultura. La idea central seria la capacitat de recollir dades referents als paràmetres interns i externs que afecten en el dia a dia de la seva activitat recol·lectora...

Tech firms use remote monitoring to help honey bees - bbc.com

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ROBOBEE – ROBOTIC POLLINATORS TO REPLACE DYING BEES

No, this is not a tabloid – it’s real.

In addition to the recent suggestion that we should “plant more flowers” to aid the declining bee population…

Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is working with staff from the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Northeastern University’s Department of Biology to develop robotic bees. These insectoid automatons would be capable of a multitude of tasks.

Autonomous pollination, search and rescue, hazardous exploration, military surveillance, climate mapping, and traffic monitoring – to name a few.

Harvard claims their “Micro Air Vehicles Project” was inspired by the biology of a bee and the insect’s hive behaviors. While the researchers focused on the development of individual autonomous robots, they also plan to study coordinating large numbers of the robots to accomplish tasks faster and more efficiently.

The robots are created through an incredible micro-engineering process specifically designed for mass production. Each “Bee” is designed with its own electronic nervous system and power source, and able to target tasks with a microscopic Ultra Violet targeting sensor.

These micro-engineering advances are increasingly similar to the military’s development of miniature drones. Shared knowledge and research in these technologies is resulting in a massive increase of processing power and flight time, as well as the potential for fully autonomous drone swarms.

Compared to the current bee micro-drones seen in the video below, those amazing quadrotor copters are almost monstrous in size. It just goes to show how the application of these technologies is increasing, while the size of the chassis becomes almost microscopic.

But as far as aiding in the pollination of our dystopian GMO fields, devoid of workers, devoid of life, what are the possible benefits?

Well, as the sales pitch for a full mechanization of nature suggests, farmers would no longer have to rely on bees to pollinate their crops. Patented worker drones could be purchased or rented and rolled into the field each spring. Pollination would be quick and efficient, no worries about colony collapse or sterile crops.

And here’s another thought . . . the robobees could be programmed specifically to your own crop. Imagine not having to worry about your little pollinators getting lost in your neighbor’s field. Simply have them programmed to respond only to specific genetic markers found only in your fields. Of course, that would require that your crop have a patented genetic marker to be programmed . . . oh.

Patented bees pollinating only approved patented crops. If that doesn’t sound like a biology lesson from The Orwellian Institute, then I don’t know what does.

Continue Reading:  http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/robobee-robotic-pollinators-to-replace.html

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UNA COLMENA CAMUFLADA PARA RASTREAR A LOS LADRONES DE ABEJAS

El Mundo de la Comunidad Valenciana

La firma valenciana Lepton diseña un sistema antirrobo para panales que avisa al apicultor por GPRS e indica su posición por GPS

La empresa valenciana Lepton ha diseñado la primera solución antirrobo específica del sector apícola, capaz de avisar al propietario de cualquier movimiento en el panal y de rastrear las abejas en caso de hurto. BeeTracker también mide continuamente los valores de temperatura, humedad y sonido dentro de la colmena. Con estos datos, el profesional puede conocer a tiempo real el estado de la floración o si hay alguna anomalía que causa la muerte de las abejas. Lepton ha logrado este sistema a través de la integración de diferentes tecnologías como el GPRS, el GPS, o el GSM.

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