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 =====BEEHIVE ITERATION-2015===== =====BEEHIVE ITERATION-2015=====
 {{:beehive2015:hive_bees_web.jpg?800x337|}} {{:beehive2015:hive_bees_web.jpg?800x337|}}
 +{{:sound_beehive:bees-3d.png?398x225|}}{{:sound_beehive:bees-rood.png?398x225|}}
  
-The Urban BeeLab group is a collaboration between an artist, computer engineers, electronical engineers and a biologist. +The Urban BeeLab group is a collaboration between an artist, computer engineers, electronical engineers, a beekeeper and a herbalist.
 Our group is currently working on fabricating a new iteration of a supersensory beehive. The interface for monitoring consists of an IR camera, IR led lights, a grid of temperature sensors and contact microphones. Our group is currently working on fabricating a new iteration of a supersensory beehive. The interface for monitoring consists of an IR camera, IR led lights, a grid of temperature sensors and contact microphones.
 We presume that the sensor data collected through our interface will allow us to decipher the capacities of the bee colonies in urban environments.  Through the bee/ICT interaction we also intend to monitor the health of the urban ecosystem, the effects of the climate change and of airborne pollutants. We presume that the sensor data collected through our interface will allow us to decipher the capacities of the bee colonies in urban environments.  Through the bee/ICT interaction we also intend to monitor the health of the urban ecosystem, the effects of the climate change and of airborne pollutants.
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 OKNO’s team has qualified sound engineers who have already developed sound architectures with customised microphones within the beehives. This delicate task (the bee sounds are very subtle) asks for a careful and professional approach to come to a hardware architecture which is non-intrusive for the bee colony. Pre-amplifiers, contact- and omni-directional microphones are attached to and spatialised in the beehive such that the subtle bee-sounds are captured in a scientific reliable process but without hindering the colony in its daily behaviour. In the most recent setup, 10 spatialised microphones record continuously the sounds in the brood box, as well as the take off and landing sounds of the bees on the landing platform, and the movements of the bees through the different stacked boxes of the Warré beehive. The sound-files are sent via an internal network to a NAS HD for storage. A parallel computer setup assures the real-time online streaming of the bee sounds. All files are annotated with human observations. The time-stamped sensor data (temperature and humidity inside/outside are the most important) is automatically linked to the soundfiles to give a full spectrum of information. OKNO’s team has qualified sound engineers who have already developed sound architectures with customised microphones within the beehives. This delicate task (the bee sounds are very subtle) asks for a careful and professional approach to come to a hardware architecture which is non-intrusive for the bee colony. Pre-amplifiers, contact- and omni-directional microphones are attached to and spatialised in the beehive such that the subtle bee-sounds are captured in a scientific reliable process but without hindering the colony in its daily behaviour. In the most recent setup, 10 spatialised microphones record continuously the sounds in the brood box, as well as the take off and landing sounds of the bees on the landing platform, and the movements of the bees through the different stacked boxes of the Warré beehive. The sound-files are sent via an internal network to a NAS HD for storage. A parallel computer setup assures the real-time online streaming of the bee sounds. All files are annotated with human observations. The time-stamped sensor data (temperature and humidity inside/outside are the most important) is automatically linked to the soundfiles to give a full spectrum of information.
 Concerning the application of organic electronics, the OKNO-team has already installed and tested experimental setups for distributed temperature sensing in the beehive using low power thermistors.  Concerning the application of organic electronics, the OKNO-team has already installed and tested experimental setups for distributed temperature sensing in the beehive using low power thermistors. 
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 +By displaying the installations and findings of the research at art/science exhibitions, the OKNO team gives a critical comment to spark the discussion on Urban Ecologies and the disappearance of the Honeybees, hereby emphasizing the importance of experimentation and continually evaluating what is possible in a close collaboration between scientists and artists, and between interdisciplinary fields of biology, computer science and design. The exhibitions should are also addressed to non-experts, to make them understand the possible implications of a world without bees.
  
 Soundbeehive version 2.0 will focus more on the visual side. A novel design should make it possible to create as well a beecounter as to getting an overall view on the development of the colony - this with the image of only 1 camera. Soundbeehive version 2.0 will focus more on the visual side. A novel design should make it possible to create as well a beecounter as to getting an overall view on the development of the colony - this with the image of only 1 camera.
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 +=====Hive 2015 - phase#3: BeeMedia=====
 +- asus
 +- Rasp Pi problems alimentation - solved
 +- chrome problems
 +- 8 temp. sensors connected
 +- audio on top
 +- piezo's in upper box
 +- accellero ready
 +- IR cam lens 3.6mm
 +- Led lights in windowframe
  
-=====Sensors for Sound & Vibrations===== +=> temp. sensors visualising in opensensordata + identification (1->8) and calculations 
-via bee knees/receptors and antennae/receptors+=> accelerometer, code (frequencies and vibrations), visualisation in graph
  
 +{{gallery>::beehive2015:final-set_up }}
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 +=====Sensors for Vibrations=====
 +via bee knees/receptors and antennae/receptors
   * install phidgets.com - USB sensing and control http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?product_id=1043   * install phidgets.com - USB sensing and control http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?product_id=1043
   * electret microphones should be installed at the entry of the hive, as well as on other strategic spots in the hive   * electret microphones should be installed at the entry of the hive, as well as on other strategic spots in the hive
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   * environmental sensordata have to be send once per minute to the server (now every 15')   * environmental sensordata have to be send once per minute to the server (now every 15')
   * check that we can put the IR and motion detection camera's in manual mode (otherwise the camera's adapt themselves to changing light situations) adapt    * check that we can put the IR and motion detection camera's in manual mode (otherwise the camera's adapt themselves to changing light situations) adapt 
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 +phidget logging info: 
 +  * Alle drie de assen van de sensor  
 +  * Sampling frequentie 1000Hz (de sensor is toch niet gevoelig voor hogere frequenties). Dat spaart een hoop data. 
 +  * Sampling resolutie: maximaal wat de sensor aankan. 
 +  * Indien er een keuze is voor verschillende ranges van g-waarden: de gevoeligste (het gaat ons immers om kleine trillingen). 
 +Later kunnen we op die rauwe data wel filters loslaten. 
 =====Cleansing Flights, early spring===== =====Cleansing Flights, early spring=====
 {{gallery>::beehive2015:cleansing_flights }} {{gallery>::beehive2015:cleansing_flights }}
  
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