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Move Over Connected Cows, the Internet of Bees Is Here (cityam.com)
A new project is aiming to bring bees online by putting them in tiny "backpacks" so that scientists can track the threatened insect's behaviour and help its survival. From a report: Bees in Manchester initially will be connected to the internet using technology from Cisco to help researchers track their migration, pollination and movement, and eventually, across the UK. Sensors in hives located at a new 70,000 sq ft tech accelerator hub in the northern city called Mi-Idea, will measure the bee environment such as temperature, while the bees themselves will be tagged with RFID chips that look like tiny backpacks. All the information will be collected and made available to track online giving insight on their habitats, with the bees even providing "status updates" (albeit automated) on their whereabouts. Cisco is working on the project with the Manchester Science Partnership (MSP) and the hub is already home to six startups: Hark, an IoT data company, video platform Wattl, location data analytics startup PlaceDashboard, Steamaco, an energy technology company, IOT platform KMS and software firm Malinko.
cease fire stand down,,, a trip to metox might help..
It is strange (and somewhat sad) when a company takes a category from the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon and actually runs with it.
OMG facts!
Bee powered meshnet when?
I perfect opportunity...wasted
ZigBees?
Says the BEE. You are BEES. ZZZzz BEES. ZZZZ
BEES!
Internet of Dogs? With Bees? And when they bark they shoot bees at you? Well go ahead! Do your worst.
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If it is WiFi, the experiment will not go well.
I thought the Internet was killing bees? (Wi-Fi/Cellular)
Certainly not pesticides since everything is "organic" nowadays.
Soon:
Anita Sarkeesian declares bee dancing to be a sexist display of the patriarchal male gaze and demands an end to it all. Apiculturalists laugh at her and point out that the dancing is how they communicate where the pollen is and all of the worker bees are female. Everyone who disagrees with Anita is banned from Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Wikipedia, most universities, and all of the major agribusinesses. Universities establish mandatory training seminars for all freshmen to denounce sexist bees. The feds threaten to cut universities' funding if they don't do this. Agribusinesses unite to establish policies of only using bees that have been trained to never dance, and they share blacklists of any beekeeper whose bees are seen dancing. The State Department funds outreach to teach other countries how to suppress misogynist bees. The bees can no longer teach each other where to find the flowers. The bees don't pollinate, the crops don't germinate, and everyone starves.
captcha: imminent
This sounds like we're one step closer to "Hated in the Nation" type hacks.
How many bees in an average hive?
Honey bees are social insects that live in colonies. Honey bee colonies consist of a single queen, hundreds of male drones and 20,000 to 80,000 female worker bees. Each honey bee colony also consists of developing eggs, larvae and pupae.
Who the hell gets to glue a tiny RFID chip to 20,000 to 80,000+ bees?
Presumably they use BGP.
...so that scientists can track the threatened insect's behaviour and help its survival.
Now, I know I'm not a scientist, but it seems to me that putting bees in tiny backpacks would not be very conducive to the bees' survival...
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
But with bees!
I hope they are secured properly. :)
Backpack, backpack
Backpack, backpack
On the backpack loaded up with things and knickknack's too
Anything that you might need I got inside for you
Backpack, backpack
Backpack, backpack
Yeah!
We were given a perfect self sustaining healthy ecosystem that would last forever and that just wasn't good enough. I am not suggesting we forgo progress in that statement , I am saying that the bees were doing just fine until the scientists started playing for his masters. We don't need to learn any more from the bee to save it, we have to respect the bees and stop with the chemicals in the air, water, ground and the Franken foods The bees and the Earth will long outlast the mighty human (mighty ego). It has seen the likes of us before and watched as we destroyed ourselves, then it did its thing, what it is supposed to do, recycled itself and just in time for another batch of idiots and this time their bringing backpacks!
A recent article from the Buzzington Post reports a data breach in the Bee Network exposed the person information of over 500 million bees.
I understand theses are not connected bees: RFID tag are not online device, you need bees pass near a RFID reader to get some information from them.
...this Black Mirror episode.
" with the bees even providing "status updates" "
Those must be some super well trained be for each on to provide a status update!
I doubt the bee will provide the status update, but rather some piece of technology that the be does not operate.
I'd give $1 to the first Lawyer to file a class action discrimination lawsuit by wasps for discrimination!
I love bees.