Ouadi Beya
The connected hive is a wooden enclosure equipped with sensors controlled by an Arduino board and allowing real-time monitoring of the intimate life 
of the bee colony by measuring the following physical parameters: mass, temperature and humidity. This project developed by students from the University of Paris (IUT PAJOL – Physical Measurements Department) in partnership with the association “Les Apiculteurs du Grand Paris” and a primary school in Paris 18. The goal is to raise children’s awareness of the importance of bees in our existence, to collect information on the state of health of bees by measuring the dynamics of colonies (size, productivity, activity) and cognition (learning capacities and memory necessary for foraging). This hive will be placed on the roof of the IUT (Paris 18) and equipped with an infrared camera to follow the nocturnal activity of the bees (They never go to bed.. they even work at night and without retiring at 64 years) and an acoustic sensor to record the loving exchanges of the members of the “Bees” tribe and answer the philosophical question of the child who slumbers in us: Tell Dad how do we make honey?… Tell Dad how do bees make babies?
