It’s a privilege to have great customers involved with testing and proving the iAPIS Monitoring gear, particularly as we continue to develop new technologies to take advantage of our real-time anywhere data connections.
Below is a video that one customer did to explain the simplicity of the Apiary Master and Hive Scales in their use with “helicopter hives”. Thees hives get deployed in the deepest back blocks of manuka country where it is at best extremely expensive to visit them.
We edited this down into a short video showing how they setup their iAPIS Hive Monitoring kit ready to be helicoptered into a site.
We are really pleased with the performance and results from the latest Apiary Master and Hive Scales running over the new SpaceX Direct to Cell (DTC) IoT network. We now have a single piece of equipment that works on Terrestrial cellular or Satellite.
The next batch of hardware is now in production and we will have that available for winter feed management and of course Spring/Summer honey flow!
Many of you will notice the similarity to the HiveMind scales which we took over and have improved the scales considerably. The new scales have a re-chargeable battery life of about 8 months and recharge from 12v adapter in about 2 hours. They neatly fit under the hive making it simple for one person to fit them and then pull them out.
On the Apiary Master we have solar to recharge the battery and even under the harshest of weather conditions in the middle of winter the battery will last for 20 days with zero charge, and will fully charge when the sun comes out in about 3 days.
Beekeepers get updates 4 times a day. This allows enough time to see when the hives start putting on honey, and as the weight starts to flatten out, when to get in and harvest.
With high costs and shrinking margins you can add hundreds of dollars to your bottom line every harvest by ensuring you don’t harvest to late, or to early, or worst case both! In the case of Manuka it’ll be thousands per harvest!
If you are interested in more information send us a message, sales@apissolutions.co.nz or give us a call!