Automated beekeeping platform powered by AI that increases honey production by 50%, reduces labour use by 90%, and reduces colony loss by 80%.

Project description

AI to help save busy bees

Bees are miracle workers. As pollinators, these winged insects ensure food security and nutrition and maintain biodiversity and ecosystems. Three out of four crops producing fruit and seeds depend on pollinators. While the demand for pollination increases, bee colonies are collapsing. In this context, the EU-funded BeeHome project will develop a platform designed to automate beekeeping, honey production, and optimise pollination. Powered by robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), the new platform will house up to 40 hives and streamline their activities by tending to the needs of each bee colony, preventing migration and potential problems to keep bees safe and busy.

Fields of science

• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture › horticulture › fruit growing
• natural sciences › biological sciences › zoology › entomology › apidology
• medical and health sciences › health sciences › nutrition
• agricultural sciences › animal and dairy science › domestic animals › animal husbandry
• agricultural sciences › animal and dairy science › apiculture

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs Main Programme
• H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
• H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

Topic(s)

• EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument

Call for proposal

H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1

Funding Scheme

SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1

Coordinator

BEEWISE TECHNOLOGIES LTD

Net EU contribution

€ 50 000,00

Address

Kalil 85, D. N. Oshrat
2523300 Oshrat
Israel

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

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Other funding

€ 21 429,00