Giving Beekeeping Guidance by cOmputatiOnal-assisted Decision making
B-GOOD will pave the way towards healthy and sustainable beekeeping within the European Union by following a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach. Merging data from within and around beehives as well as wider socioeconomic conditions, B-GOOD will develop and test innovative tools to perform risk assessments according to the Health Status Index (HSI).
B-GOOD has the overall goal to provide guidance for beekeepers and help them make better and more informed decisions.
B-GOOD's platform will utilise and further expand the open source BEEP system comprised of a monitoring device and the already functional user-friendly application for digital beekeeping logbooks.
Six B-GOOD developed technologies will feed real-time data into the platform:
- honeybee vibrations-based accelerometers to produce long term statistics;
- gas and spatially resolved temperature measurements;
- automated bee counters (hive mortality rates, pollen flow, drone/worker discrimination);
- sensors to detect pesticide residues;
- devices to detect honey bee viruses of high health relevance;
- analytical tool for genetic imprint.
Latest from the project
B-GOOD's participation at the 46th Apimondia Congress, Montreal
B-GOOD took part in the 46th Apimondia International Apicultural Congress, which took place from 8-12 September 2019 in Montreal, Canada. The Scientific... read more
B-GOOD meets INSIGNIA to discuss shared goals and actions
On 9 July 2019 B-GOOD met its sister project INSIGNIA to exchange ideas and plan for future collaboration. Both B-GOOD's Coordinator Dirk de Graaf, Ghent University... read more
Big data and innovations for healthy bees: B-GOOD project starts in June 2019
Big data, an interactive platform and six different technological innovations are the core of the recently started Horizon 2020 project B-GOOD in its 4-year mission to... read more