Effective and Efficient Honey Harvest Alert System for Bee Farms

Abstract

The technology described in this paper could be used to support the rural people who practice apiculture. The present innovation helps to increase the quality attributes of the honey by automating the process of monitoring the honey broods in order to obtain the first quality honey. The proposed invention continuously monitors the honey brood using the webcam and image processing technique is used to identify the capping level with absolute accuracy. We also monitor the humidity level inside the brood box using the humidity sensor ensuring the quality of honey produced and quality of the environment for the sustaining of bees. Image processing and machine learning is used to identify the level of capping occurred in the beehive and first quality of honey could be extracted if at least 75% of cells of the hive are capped.