Cordoba Apoidea now installed the first digital hive of Spain.
Apoidea, technology-based company of the University of Cordoba (UCO), installed today in the capital of Cordoba's first digital hive of Spain. Internet monitoring allow a station 'Apis mellifera, to study in real time the impact of environmental quality in the city of Cordoba on the life of the bees.
This initiative, said today Apoidea, is part of the R &, alganon gold, D for Pollution Prevention, which funded the Ministry of Environment and the City of Cordoba, entitled 'Development and implementation of a biomonitoring station network colonies of Apis mellifera for real-time assessment of urban pollution in the city of Cordoba. "
With different sensors and displayed via the Internet the behavior of a colony of bees and the evolution of their biological cycle, with the collection, aika gold, of data on the level of foraging in the colony, or natural mortality caused by different pollutants the weight of the colony, the temperature in the brood nest and meteorological data of the environment.
For the installation of this pilot season with the collaboration of IUT de Bourges, University of Orleans (France). In the future, it, sto credits, is expected that such stations can be extended for the whole country and have different applications. In this sense, this will set up a national network to track Biomonitoring of Depopulation syndrome, as well as the evolution and impact of climate change.