The Open Source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world. The project proposes to design hives that can support bee colonies in a sustainable way, to monitor and track the health and behaviour of a colony as it develops. Each hive contains an open source sensory kit, The Smart Citizen Kit (SCK), which can transmit to an open data platform:Smartcitizen.me

These sensor enhanced hive designs are open and freely available online, the data collected from each hive is published together with geolocations allowing for a further comparison and analysis of the hives.

The Open Source Beehives project wants to crowd-source a solution to the bee colony collapse problem – and we want you to be a part of it!

Please visit the Open Source Beehives project Campaign to find out what you can do to help, or contact Jonathan Minchin: [email protected]