Technological Adoption and Challenges in Beekeeping: A Review

The modern beekeeping process relies on the manufactured beehive to ease installing monitoring devices and harvesting processes without endangering the colonies. In contrast to meliponiculture, apiculture has turned significant researched over the past five years in evaluating sensing technology, data collection, and analysis. This paper reviewed current, cutting-edge sensing technologies that have been used to the beekeeping industry. The study also discussed the difficulties with data collection, IoT platform and analysis in both apiculture and meliponiculture. Acoustic, optical sensors, doppler radar, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and other sensing systems were employed in most studies. The review found that improving real-time data and online database storage systems is a major challenge in data collection while temperature, humidity, hive weight, and activity levels of the bees are among the crucial factors being investigated. The study will make a significant contribution to the use of appropriate and pertinent monitoring techniques, especially in new and ongoing research.