Everything in the BeeSwarmly system — from the sensors inside the hive to the dashboard on your phone.
Each sensor kit is weatherproof, bee-safe, and designed for installation in under twenty minutes.
Five thin-profile temperature sensors mounted on a flexible PCB strip. The strip attaches to the interior wall of the hive body with beeswax-compatible adhesive. Each probe reports to ±0.1°C accuracy every sixty seconds. Battery life exceeds twelve months.
A sealed MEMS microphone in a propolis-resistant housing, mounted between frames. Captures frequency data from 50Hz to 8kHz with vibration isolation from wind and external noise. The capsule is 18mm in diameter and does not impede bee movement or comb construction.
A weatherproof load cell platform that sits beneath the hive stand. Measures total colony weight to ±5g resolution, capturing nectar flow, bee departures, and the distinctive pre-swarm gorging pattern. Rated for 150kg capacity and IP67 weather sealing.
A solar-powered base station that receives data from up to 50 hive sensor kits within a 300-meter radius. Connects to the cloud via WiFi or an optional cellular modem. One gateway serves an entire apiary. No configuration beyond power-on is required.
The dashboard, the alerts, and the historical analysis tools that make sensor data useful.
A web-based dashboard showing real-time temperature, acoustics, weight, and swarm probability for every hive. Color-coded status indicators let you scan your entire apiary at a glance. Works on desktop, tablet, and phone.
Configurable threshold alerts via push notification, email, or SMS. Set your own sensitivity level: high sensitivity catches more events with more false positives; conservative mode alerts only on high-confidence predictions. Each alert includes the specific hive, predicted timeframe, and suggested intervention.
Graph temperature, weight, and acoustic patterns over days, weeks, or months. Compare current readings to the same hive last season or to your apiary average. Exportable data for beekeepers who want to run their own analysis or share with their beekeeping association.
Record inspections, treatments, splits, and feeding events alongside sensor data. The log correlates your interventions with changes in hive behavior, building a complete picture of each colony's history across seasons.
BeeSwarmly plays well with the tools beekeepers already use.
Connect your local weather station or use our integrated forecast feed. Ambient temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and wind data are factored into swarm predictions — because weather triggers matter as much as internal hive conditions.
A RESTful API for beekeepers and developers who want to pull raw sensor data into their own systems. Endpoints for current readings, historical queries, and alert subscriptions. Documentation included with every pilot account.
Download any hive's complete sensor history as a CSV file. Useful for research, record-keeping, insurance documentation, or sharing with apiary inspectors and veterinarians.
Manage multiple apiary locations from a single account. Each location gets its own gateway, its own set of hives, and its own alert configuration. Commercial operations with yards across multiple counties use this to centralize monitoring.
No add-ons, no premium tiers, no locked features. Pilot participants get the complete hardware suite and full software access. We want real-world feedback on the whole system, not just parts of it.