Do it yourself

About the technologies, standards, protocols and software
components used for building the whole system.

We are building upon Arduino and compatibles, ESP8266-based MCUs
and ARM-based SoC computers like the RaspberryPi or ODROID
as well as regular x86/amd64-based systems like the Intel NUC.

We are standing on the shoulders of giants.

Introduction

Feel free to use the system to your own needs in beehive monitoring, no matter which sensor hardware is in use at your site. Just drop us an email about custom requirements for data adapters, we are closely working together with the developers of upstream software and happy to support any protocol or data serialization format you are already using in the field.

Disclaimer

We are still working on the documentation and happy about getting any feedback for improving it.

Preview

HEnode version 0.2.2 in the field

Electronics

Scale Frame "Beutenkarl"

Plumbing

Scale frame is mounted. Rear view.

Ready

Components

Electronics

There are currently two different sensor kits in the making:

  • Hiveeyes One uses RF for transmitting telemetry data
  • Open Hive is aiming at GPRS and WiFi for connectivity

Todo

Describe how to order the parts, build your own sensor kit and finally operate it.

Todo

Describe how to package the electronics and choose an appropriate power supply.

Plumbing

Todo

Describe how to wire electronics with sensors.

There are currently two different beehive scales in the making:

Todo

Describe how to get the parts and build one of the scale frames/sockets and how to connect it to the electronics.

Software

  • Hiveeyes Arduino Sensors: Arduino-compatible MCU code for sensor reading and telemetry data transmission.

    Todo

    Describe how to start transmitting data from the new sensor node.

  • BERadio Gateway (optional): The RFM69 to MQTT gateway used with the Hiveeyes One setup is a convenient and versatile serial-to-mqtt forwarder implementing some specific details of the Bencode-based communication protocol.

    Todo

    Describe how to operate BERadio and forward telemetry data from the new sensor node to the backend.

  • Kotori Backend: The backend platform is completely open and driven by a multi-channel, multi-protocol data acquisition and graphing toolkit in turn based on Grafana, InfluxDB and Eclipse Mosquitto. Read Backend setup about how to setup an instance on your machine.

    Todo

    Describe how to receive and display telemetry data from different sensor nodes in Grafana.

    Note

    While the whole backend software stack can be installed on your own machine, we encourage using our collaborative and open Hiveeyes platform for getting started without effort.

System

Todo

Describe how to start transmitting, receiving, publishing and visualizing telemetry data, all together now.