Value proposition

Open Source Beehives began with a vision of people who are separated by geographic distance, but who confront the same common problems, working together to cooperatively develop innovative solutions for everyone's benefit. Based on the success of projects like Arduino and Particle, we were inspired by the emerging potential for citizen-led scientific research and open data (CC0), owned by no one, but belonging to everyone, to give us all a straight answer when it comes to the crisis facing the honey bee.

We've developed the BuzzBox, hardware and smartphone app, as an open platform for monitoring beehives. We're giving you tools for precision beekeeping, but we've also developed some powerful instruments for scientific research in the form of our hive health monitor.

Key Features

Honey Bee Health Monitor: automatic hive health updates via realtime colony audio analysis (details below)
Track your bees from your smartphone (Android and iOS)
Receive smartphone security alerts to prevent theft or invasion
Monitor internal and external temperature and humidity, barometric pressure
Solar powered and fully energy neutral
Weather-resistant enclosure for all shipped kits
Transmits data via WiFi (WiFi connection required for v1.0/GSM is in development for v2.0)
Over-the-air updates for new, free product features