Abstract
The internet of things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 technologies are becoming widely used in the field of apiculture to enhance honey production and reduce colony losses using connected scales combined with additional data, such as relative humidity and internal temperature. This paper exploits beehive weight measurements and builds appropriate business rules using two instruments. The first is an IoT fixed scale installed on one hive, taking rich continuous measurements, and used as a reference. The second is a portable nomad scale communicating with a smartphone and used for the remaining hives. A key contribution will be the run and triggering of a business process model based on apicultural business rules learned from experience and system observed events. Later, the evolution of the weight of each individual hive, obtained by either measurement or inference, will be associated with a graphical workflow diagram expressed with the business process model and notation (BPMN) language, and will trigger events that inform beekeepers to initiate relevant action. Finally, the BPMN processes will be transformed into executable models for model driven decision support. This contribution improves amateur and professional user-experience for honeybee keeping and opens the door for interoperability between the suggested model and other available simulations (weather, humidity, bee colony behavior, etc.).
Highlights
Beekeeping is a branch of agriculture that involves the breeding of bees (Apis mellifera) to exploit the products of the hive, mainly honey
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Summary
Beekeeping is a branch of agriculture that involves the breeding of bees (Apis mellifera) to exploit the products of the hive, mainly honey. Apis mellifera is a semi-domestic species that has been widely used since antiquity, to produce honey, wax, and pollen, and for its prominent role in pollination, especially of vegetable and fruit crops [1,2]. In common practice, we can mainly distinguish three categories of beekeepers according to the importance of their operation. The first, amateur beekeepers, who have a familyfriendly practice, own up to 50 beehives. The second category is made up of professional beekeepers who can own more than 150 beehives. Beekeepers who own between 50 and 150 hives are considered as semi-professionals. Professional and semi-professional apiculturists reallocate their hives with respect to the blooms whereas amateurs do not necessarily
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