To date, connected hives have been placed in seven different cities in Sweden.

The purpose of the support from the Swedish Board of Agriculture is to increase the number of connected hives to all of Sweden's 25 beekeeper districts and to develop the mobile app that has been developed by students at Linnaeus University, among other places.

In the app, the beekeeper can, among other things, read temperature, weight, air pressure, humidity and air quality to determine how the bee community is doing in the hive, and for example be able to determine if the bees are about to swarm.

All to benefit the bees' important role for biodiversity, and continue to research the conditions required for bee communities to feel good.

"Collects data from north to south"

- The money from the Swedish Board of Agriculture makes it possible for us to continue to develop a nationwide network of connected hives.

By collecting data from north to south, we will have even better opportunities to see differences in our elongated country and greatly improve our data.

The goal is for the digital hives to make it easier for beekeepers, researchers and authorities, continues Mikael Ekström, CEO of Beelab.

The project started in 2019 a research collaboration with the technology company Tietoevry, the research center HSB Living lab in Gothenburg and Linnaeus University.

See how the connected hive works in the clip:

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Oscar Bergström, a student at Linnaeus University, talks about a new technology that can be used to monitor the hive digitally.

Photo: Hamed Ubaidi-Karlsson / SVT