Lets make a Beehive Service- Automates a beehive with environmental and bee health sensors, and displays the data remotely via geolocated community driven data on a world map.

For the past couple years, I've been a happy and excited member of this group, and since I've known about it, MRL has filled a place in my mind as a beautiful backbone for just about anything. Some core projects for MRL such as the InMoov AI allow MRL to really reach for the stars in terms of complexity, but another core strength to MRL is the fact that is can flex and take in new processes and automation, so as Grog says, always like to try and push all the new buttons. :)

With Plantoids Service, the key vision is remote data sensign applied to an autonomous plant minded robot. In essense, the plant had a subordinate system of sensors and actuators that are designed to serve the plant's needs and quality of live, as well as gather and display data for human operatives to use in order to monitor and ensure the success of the experiment and system survival. 

Abtracting a service like the Plantoid service for other environmental needs proves to need little modification in order to create a suite of datalogging capabilities. Other ventures such as the Open Source Beehives project prove to be capable and growing in providing a large set of resources that its members might use to further the efforts of the total project. I believe that MRL may add some value in the AI side of some more advanced systems for bee watching that might make some interesting things happen for the data, though the current set of sensor that is being developed is wide and very good, remote cameras and actuator control could go a long way to help gain a more immersive perspective on bee health. 

I believe that using the simplistic NIR cameras on the plantoid service alone, one could gain powerful visual images for the patterns and behaviour of bees, as well as using the filtered NIR to detect pollen and pollutant retrieval to the hive. 

Starting hardware and BOM:

ODROID U2 w/ wifi dongle

NIR and RGB Cameras for streaming, OpenCV filtering, and stills.

Arduino:   datalogging automatically. Maybe Borsaci's NodeMCU activities have some ground here. 

   Temp, Light, AQ, VOC and any other helpful sensor that might be wanted for internal and external datapoints in, on, and around the hive.

Resources:

Bee counting:  -Needed for tracking hive population and activity. 

http://hivetool.org/hardware/counters/vaib9_mummert.pdf

http://www.instructables.com/id/Honey-Bee-Counter/

C'mon, lets jive the hives!