Bees are essential: they are the most essential link to maintain biodiversity on our planet and help ensure food security. Because of this apiculture and pollination must be promoted more than ever.
To help provide ideas about the future of this practice, the designer Seokbin Hong has developed a concept called Moving Beehive Mobility 2035. The year, it seems evident, is the one imagined for such a solution: and who knows, by then we won't really see these autonomous hives walking around accompanying bees to work.
The project, sponsored byAmerican Chemistry Council it's quite radical and at the moment I don't see it close to a realization. However, the idea can lead to more "moderate" ideas that help improve current practices.
Autonomous hives equipped with artificial intelligence
The idea revolves around the “protection” of beekeeping through artificial intelligence. This autonomous vehicle keeps hives at optimal temperatures, protects them from hornets and prevents the spread of diseases in bee colonies.
Its ideal use scenario (perhaps because it needs more help) is the urban one: this mobile hive is ideal for open pollination in orchards without.
How Mooving Beehive Mobility works
The autonomous vehicle monitors the number of bees in the artificial colony enclosed inside and the temperature levels in real time. The hive entrance, located at the bottom of the vehicle, can be opened or closed as desired to allow bees to pollinate the designated area.
To prevent the hornets from decimating the bees there is a trap on top of the vehicle, which attracts the insects and captures them.
The hives have a special “cell” for the queen, a separate section for honey storage and for the hive larvae. When mobility is not required, the vehicle can “lift” upright, positioning the hives at the most comfortable height for beekeepers.
What do you think?
How many ideas of this concept could work? Moving Beehive Mobility 2035 is almost a "dream" that shows how we could keep bees safe, healthy and productive with the help of technology and artificial intelligence.
If you plan to get into beekeeping in the next few years, let's say within a decade, these might sound like “tips” for future technology.
