Continuous monitoring of beehives’ sound for environmental pollution control
| Autor: | Leonidas Carrasco Letelier, Nicolás Pérez, Yamandú Mendoza Spina, Pablo Zinemanas, Cecilia Pérez, Nicolás Obrusnik, Silvina Niell, Florencia Jesús, Alejandro Draper, Pablo Monzon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Beehive
Engineering geography Environmental Engineering geography.geographical_feature_category business.industry Frequency band Real-time computing Control (management) Continuous monitoring Environmental engineering Monitoring system Environmental pollution 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Chemical agents 040103 agronomy & agriculture 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries business Sound (geography) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Ecological Engineering. 90:326-330 |
| ISSN: | 0925-8574 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.01.082 |
| Popis: | The massive use of pesticides and herbicides to increment the agriculture production can produce severe environmental impacts. This implies the need of new methods to monitor and control the use of chemical agents. An alternative to traditional sampling methods is the use of insects to act as a biological distributed sensor in order to monitor the presence of pesticides in the neighbourhood. Specifically, several authors have proposed the use of the beehive as a distributed sensor. To evaluate critical changes in the beehive behaviour, the sound patterns are analysed. In this work the guidelines used to develop a remote monitoring system in order to detect abnormal changes in the sound patterns in hives are presented. The evolution of the frequency spectrum sampled in four temporal windows is proposed to monitor the beehive health. Experiments to determinate the frequency band and the frequency resolution are presented for the case of Apis mellifera . Using these guidelines a complete monitor system was developed and constructed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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