SafeBee – Technology hives against thieves – Pplware

There are several market protection solutions hive-based GPS systems and data communication. These commercial solutions have however shown some problems that hinder its spread by beekeepers and hence the effective protection of apiaries and made substantial investments.

The MAGICKEY and PPLWARE provide a new and innovative system Protection for hives, called SafeBee, which solves the major problems associated with existing business systems on the market

The growing interest in beekeeping, with the economic value of this activity has led more people to make large investments in this area.

These investments, like any other, always have some risks associated. The fact of the apiaries are located in isolated areas increases the risk of theft of hives which is undoubtedly a huge loss for beekeepers.

of currently available commercial solutions include the following problems:

• Low autonomy battery that, as a rule, does not exceed 30 days, increasing the need for hand- additional labor for its maintenance;
• permanent emission of electromagnetic radiation that are potentially harmful to bees. This problem is compounded by the fact that the electromagnetic radiation being emitted within the hive;
• Monthly to pay for each protected by beekeepers hive, which substantially decreases the yields obtained in this hive;

SafeBee is a protection system for hives, which allows your geolocation in case of theft. The beekeeper is alerted whenever there is a movement and / or opening the hive cover for theft frames. The information appear on your smartphone through an audible and visual signal where immediately you can see on the map your location and travel speed. The beekeeper using the application on your SmartPhone can also at any time ask the hive location.

Summary of the advantages of SafeBee solution

• Hive Event Alert, sent to the mobile phone / smartphone beekeeper, identifying the hive and the respective location;
• hive movement Alert, with periodic sending of GPS coordinates identify the exact location of the hive, allowing you to view a map in real time or retrospectively, the route of the hive;
• battery operation for a year, which allows its maintenance only at the time it makes the annual maintenance of the hive;
• No harmful electromagnetic radiation to bees during normal operation of SafeBee and only emitted radiation in the event of theft or opening the hive;
• No monthly or annual fee associated with each protection system, being spent just one SMS for each alert sent to the beekeeper;
• Application for Android smartphone beekeeper who facilitates interaction with protected hives

The physical installation of SafeBee will be made by each beekeeper, with technical support from MAGICKEY. If you want to MAGICKEY may make mounting the equipment in each hive thus delivering a solution “turnkey”

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The MagicKey is available to support beekeepers in developing new technological solutions that will enable them to enhance their economic performance and / or simplicity of its management.