The most advanced beehive monitor available — 30 realtime Metrics, AI-powered daily health reports, and sub-GHz LoRa radio that works miles from any WiFi. Deployed in production apiaries with over-the-air updates and zero-touch provisioning.
ApisNode is a smart beehive monitor built from the ground up — custom hardware, embedded firmware, cloud infrastructure, and AI analytics — purpose-built for continuous, non-invasive hive health tracking. No subscription fees. No WiFi required at the hive. Free trial available for US beekeepers.
Your hives run off-grid on a small solar panel — no WiFi needed. The only thing that touches your WiFi is the gateway, and it can sit up to 2 miles away at your house or barn.
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Each ApisNode captures a comprehensive environmental fingerprint at adaptive intervals — from continuous sampling on solar power to multi-hour deep sleep cycles to maximize battery life.
High-precision environmental sensing tracks brood nest temperature stability, pre-swarm signatures, and condensation risk with ±0.1°C accuracy.
On-device FFT extracts spectral features across 100–3600 Hz, covering baseline colony hum, queen piping, waggle dance harmonics, and defensive hissing.
Accelerometer-based spectral decomposition detects waggle dance activity, queen presence indicators, and mechanical disturbance across 5–1000 Hz.
A stepped-temperature scan reads the gas sensor at 10 heater setpoints from 100–400 °C, building a volatile-organic-compound (VOC) fingerprint far richer than a single reading. Shifts in this profile — against the colony's own baseline — flag changes in the hive's air: nectar curing, propolis and brood volatiles, or contamination worth a closer look on your next inspection.
Full 3-axis gravity vector monitoring detects hive knockover, bear attacks, and vandalism with real-time alerting capabilities.
Atmospheric pressure tracking provides hyper-local weather context that feeds into AI analysis for weather-correlated colony behavior predictions.
Daily automated analysis fuses 24-hour sensor telemetry with peer-reviewed bee science research and field inspection notes to produce actionable colony health reports.
Fuses hive temperature, humidity, and acoustic activity with biological baselines. Tells you immediately if the queen is active, if brood nest climate is optimal, or if the colony is experiencing weather stress.
Tracks daily rhythmic cycles in sound, temp, and behavior. Automatically highlights shifts or deviations from the colony's historical diurnal thresholds that signify swarming or hive stress.
Correlates multi-sensor trend changes with peer-reviewed literature (e.g. Bencsik et al., Seeley) to identify early disease indicators, pollen flows, or queenless states before they show physical signs.
Filters out the noise to give you a clear apiary todo list. Recommends targeted, seasonal actions (e.g. "Verify honey stores next inspection") based on current environment and behavior trends.
After each daily analysis, you can ask follow-up questions about your colonies. ApisMind combines your live sensor data, inspection history, and peer-reviewed science to answer like a trusted beekeeping partner who knows your hives personally.
You're looking at real-time telemetry from 4 active beehives at our headquarters in Los Alamos, New Mexico — not simulated data. Every reading updates live, every 5 minutes.
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Purpose-designed hardware engineered for years of continuous outdoor operation.
We're selecting beekeepers to receive a complete ApisNode sensor kit for free. In exchange, your anonymized data will power The Open Apiary Project — building the world's most comprehensive apiary health database.
Complete a short application telling us about your apiary, your technical setup, and your beekeeping experience.
Selected applicants receive a complete sensor kit: ApisNode sensor(s), ApisMind gateway, battery, and mounting hardware — shipped to your door.
Install sensors in your hives, connect the gateway to your WiFi, and start contributing real-time scientific data to The Open Apiary Project.
The ApisMind gateway needs a stable WiFi connection to relay data to the cloud.
You should be comfortable with smartphone apps, WiFi setup, and basic troubleshooting.
Your anonymized sensor data contributes to real research through The Open Apiary Project. Keep sensors deployed and powered.
We expect trial users to log hive inspections using the app's voice recorder. These transcriptions train our AI to better understand colony health.
A beehive monitor is an in-hive electronic device that tracks environmental conditions—temperature, humidity, acoustics, comb vibration, tilt, and gas (VOC) profile—without disturbing the colony. ApisNode captures 30 distinct metrics every 5 minutes in production, delivering actionable insights and automated daily health reports to your smartphone to prevent colony losses.
ApisNode uses an integrated sub-GHz LoRa P2P radio. The sensor node inside the hive transmits encrypted data up to 2 miles (3.2 km) to the ApisMind gateway. The gateway can be placed at a nearby house or barn where WiFi, cellular, or satellite is available, meaning your hives need zero network coverage.
Not directly — and any product that claims to diagnose a specific bee disease from a gas reading is overselling the sensor. ApisNode steps its gas sensor through 10 heater temperatures (100–400 °C) each cycle, producing a volatile-organic-compound (VOC) fingerprint rather than a single number. Many colony events change the VOCs in the hive's air — nectar curing, propolis work, and yes, decaying brood — which shifts this fingerprint against the colony's own baseline. The sensor cannot name a pathogen, but a sustained, unexplained shift that is also corroborated by temperature and acoustic changes is an early signal that something inside the hive has changed and is worth a physical inspection.
Yes. ApisNode captures 10 acoustic frequency bands (100–3600 Hz). The system monitors worker piping frequencies (350–600 Hz) that precede a swarm. Fusing this with shifts in comb vibration and sudden changes in diurnal temperature rhythms, the daily AI report can detect swarm prep up to 48 hours before the colony splits.
Every 24 hours, our AWS cloud analytics engine processes your hive's history and generates three distinct report sections: (1) **Overall Health** (brood nest status and climate scoring), (2) **Diurnal Cycle Patterns** (monitoring circadian rhythm stability in sound/temperature and flagging deviations), and (3) **Science Discovery Correlations** (grounding your hive's behavior in peer-reviewed scientific studies to suggest next steps).
ApisNode is built for long-term deployments. By spending 99% of its time in a deep-sleep power-gated state between the 5-minute sampling intervals, the node draws under 7µA passive current. It runs from a rechargeable LiPo battery kept topped up by a small solar panel, so each node stays powered indefinitely with no wiring to the hive and no manual recharging.
Yes, the hardware kit and AI analytics are completely free through our trial program. In exchange, your anonymized sensor data contributes directly to apiculture research through The Open Apiary Project, which builds open databases to study pollinator health and defeat Colony Collapse Disorder.
Whether you're a beekeeper, researcher, or conservationist — we'd love to hear from you.