This week we’ve invited Rich Morris, of Broodminder, to provide updates on what’s new and what’s improved with his Broodminder Hive Monitoring sensor collection.

Broodminder has been in the hive monitoring business for many years and Rich states they are starting to design and release their second and third generations of products. For starters, Broodminder has completely reworked their mobile app so it is faster, shows more information and is easier to use.

This past year, they introduced a “SubHub”, an information collector for up to 50 hive sensors in a beeyard.  The beekeeper can then make one quick stop at a yard and download the data to their cellphone or iPad/tablet to the Internet.

They’ve also reworked the scales this year so now you can use the original simple front-end scale, or use a scale that weighs the whole hive. A scale can come assembled, or unassembled for you to do yourself. You’ll save money with this new scale.

The BeeCounted web page is becoming very useful for Broodminder users, and beekeepers anywhere. A map shows where Broodminder users are by zip code, and you can look at the data from any of these users, yourself included, and see if your hives are similar, or different than nearby hives, which may give you a heads up on trouble.

That’s just a start of the products designed and built for beekeepers by beekeepers. They also have a variety of cellular and WiFi enabled collectors that keep your hives connected so you can monitor them from wherever you are at any given moment

If distant hive monitoring, or even backyard hive monitoring is important, or you’re just curious as to what’s going on inside, you will be interested in what this episode!

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Links and websites mentioned in this podcast:

• Broodminder Website - https://broodminder.com
• BeeCounted - https://www.beecounted.org
• BeeCounted Map - https://map.beecounted.org/citizen_science/embedded_map
• One of Jeff's Monitored Hives on BeeCounted - https://map.beecounted.org/hive/summary/DQ0O
• Bee Hive Monitoring Group on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/471604447501945/

• Honey Bee Obscura Podcast - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com

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