A Monitoring System for Carbon Dioxide in Honeybee Hives: An Indicator of Colony Health

Non-dispersive infra-red (NDIR) detectors have become the dominant method for measuring atmospheric CO(2), which is thought to be an important gas for honeybee colony health. In this work we describe a microcontroller-based system used to collect data from Senserion SCD41 NDIR sensors placed in the...

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Autores principales: Bencsik, Martin, McVeigh, Adam, Tsakonas, Costas, Kumar, Tarun, Chamberlain, Luke, Newton, Michael I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10099037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37050648
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23073588
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author Bencsik, Martin
McVeigh, Adam
Tsakonas, Costas
Kumar, Tarun
Chamberlain, Luke
Newton, Michael I.
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description Non-dispersive infra-red (NDIR) detectors have become the dominant method for measuring atmospheric CO(2), which is thought to be an important gas for honeybee colony health. In this work we describe a microcontroller-based system used to collect data from Senserion SCD41 NDIR sensors placed in the crown boards and queen excluders of honeybee colonies. The same sensors also provide relative humidity and temperature data. Several months of data have been recorded from four different hives. The mass change measurements, from hive scales, when foragers leave the hive were compared with the data from the gas sensors. Our data suggest that it is possible to estimate the colony size from the change in measured CO(2), however no such link with the humidity is observed. Data are presented showing the CO(2) decreasing over many weeks as a colony dies.
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spelling pubmed-100990372023-04-14 A Monitoring System for Carbon Dioxide in Honeybee Hives: An Indicator of Colony Health Bencsik, Martin McVeigh, Adam Tsakonas, Costas Kumar, Tarun Chamberlain, Luke Newton, Michael I. Sensors (Basel) Communication Non-dispersive infra-red (NDIR) detectors have become the dominant method for measuring atmospheric CO(2), which is thought to be an important gas for honeybee colony health. In this work we describe a microcontroller-based system used to collect data from Senserion SCD41 NDIR sensors placed in the crown boards and queen excluders of honeybee colonies. The same sensors also provide relative humidity and temperature data. Several months of data have been recorded from four different hives. The mass change measurements, from hive scales, when foragers leave the hive were compared with the data from the gas sensors. Our data suggest that it is possible to estimate the colony size from the change in measured CO(2), however no such link with the humidity is observed. Data are presented showing the CO(2) decreasing over many weeks as a colony dies. MDPI 2023-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10099037/ /pubmed/37050648 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23073588 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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A Monitoring System for Carbon Dioxide in Honeybee Hives: An Indicator of Colony Health
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title_full A Monitoring System for Carbon Dioxide in Honeybee Hives: An Indicator of Colony Health
title_fullStr A Monitoring System for Carbon Dioxide in Honeybee Hives: An Indicator of Colony Health
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title_short A Monitoring System for Carbon Dioxide in Honeybee Hives: An Indicator of Colony Health
title_sort monitoring system for carbon dioxide in honeybee hives: an indicator of colony health
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10099037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37050648
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23073588
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