The World Hive Network is the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to track the health of the global honeybee populations. It aims to be a high performance, central source of global bee health data which gives stakeholders, from policy makers and governments and universities to smallholder farmers and beekeepers, the opportunity to find solutions to bee health.

Bees are natural biosensors and in order to pick up on the ‘intelligence’ they generate, we place sophisticated sensors in hives all over the world and connect them to World Hive Network.

Using Oracle cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to process the data we generate allows us to recognise the signatures of healthy and unhealthy hives, spot patterns, trends and shifts, and share the knowledge with farmers, scientists, governments and global agencies in order to supercharge the field of pollinator research and protection.

Remote monitoring allows farmers and beekeepers to better understand the relationship of bees to their ecosystems. Beekeepers can “tune in” and pick up on subtle acoustic signals within the hive that indicate increases in environmental and other pressures that could threaten the health of their bees. In apiaries owned by farmers or commercial beekeepers, the technology helps protect colonies by alerting beekeepers to swarming so they can capture and place the swarm in a new hive to start a new colony. It also alerts beekeepers to predators like the invasive Asian hornet and to ‘robbing’ of honey by other bees.

The technology has been validated and ensures hyper-efficient pollination that can increase crop yields by 30% on average for crops including almonds, berries, soybean, gourds, sunflowers, apples, canola, and cotton.

We work with universities, businesses, municipal authorities and communities around the world and ensure that each of our projects is scientifically validated and beneficial to local communities.