OSBH:acoustics
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what for?
Acoustic analysis can be used to determine the health status and mood of the bees.
apidictor patent
frequencies to measure:
- 180-190 Hz ("normal"): healthy bee sound in quiet period (night?)
- ~220-290 Hz ( "warble"): if that sound occurs, queen's rate of egg laying has diminished.
- >3000 Hz ("hiss") : sound occurs by clapping or knocking on the hive.
- short sharp hiss: healthy queen
- sluggish rise in hiss with slow fade: abnormality
interpretation of the sounds
| warble | hiss | interpretion |
|---|---|---|
| yes | sluggish rise and fall, max intensy much less than normal. "at time of issue it has vanished" | swarming activity. possibly noticeable 15 days before swarming. |
| yes | short sharp hiss | age or deformity of the queen |
| yes | on hiss vanishes completly | death or removal of queen |
So practical usage would be alerting if warble sounds occure. Also a LED signal responding to the hiss would be a quite nice on-field use and interaction: knocking on the hive: "everything alright?" - and the sensor answers with green (shor sharp hiss), red (sluggish hiss) or no light (nobody there!)..?
Acoustic sensor for beehive monitoring (US 8152590)
The patent says that it's possbile determine quality and quantity of air pollution and desease (mites, foulbrood) by analysing sound spectrum frequencies in bee hives. Quite complex statistical analysing required and basic data. Question would be, if every hive responds in the same way to pollution/desease, so that collected data could be compared with new positioned hives.
If that's possible the OSBH could set up a world wide pollution map with beehives! Also determinig bee's desease would be important data to analyse bee die off.
Arduino audio capabilities and sample Rates
- Arduino can sample up to 8 kHz with analogRead.
- bypassing AnalogRead gives about 38,5 kHZ
- Sample rate should be at least about 2.5 time the signal frequencie
- With Analog Read it would be possible to analyse frequencies up to 3.2 kHZ
