Descrizione del progetto
Localizzatori GPS per tenere al sicuro le api
Buone notizie per gli apicoltori che si affannano a proteggere le loro arnie da furti o atti vandalici: il progetto BeeSafe, finanziato dall’UE, sta mettendo a punto un piano per proteggere questo settore che vale un miliardo di euro. Sta sviluppando un sistema antifurto intelligente dotato di software di servizio basato sull’intelligenza artificiale per proteggere le api. Questo nuovo sistema si basa su un localizzatore GPS che segnala qualsiasi movimento insolito (ad esempio un furto o un atto di vandalismo). Una tecnologia in attesa di brevetto consente al sistema antifurto di funzionare in modalità zero energia fino a quando non si verifica il furto o l’atto vandalico. L’intelligenza artificiale testata sul campo confronta i movimenti insoliti con precedenti modelli di utenti e mitiga i falsi allarmi. Il progetto punta a dotare di questa soluzione pronta all’uso lo 0,5 % degli 8,1 milioni di alveari nell’UE, entro i prossimi 5 anni.
Obiettivo
Apiculture (Beekeeping) is a billion Euros industry. According to the European Commission, 650,000 beekeepers in the EU generate an annual value added of 1.4 billion Euros, with their 18 million beehives. More importantly apiculture contributes to a total amount of at least 24 billion Euros delivered by pollination to EU agriculture. Successful apiculture attracts beehive theft and vandalism.
We are developing a disruptive, scalable, smart anti-theft system with AI-based service software to protect beehives. The innovative system is based on a GPS-tracker that reports unusual movement (=theft or vandalism) identified by our AI-software. GPS-trackers are nothing new. They are hardly never used for beekeeping though as a result of their unsatisfactory user interface (SIM cards have to be purchased with tariff independently, the provided software is often not compatible and/or user friendly). Besides the GPS-trackers are unreliable in their performance (short battery times and frequent false alarms) and do not detect vandalism, since the beehives location is not changed.
With BeeSafe we are developing a different product. Intelligent, protected (patent pending) technology enables our anti-theft system to operate in zero-energy-mode until theft or vandalism occurs. Field tested AI compares unusual movement with past user patterns and mitigates false alarms. Smart services include SIM cards, access to a service platform that will manage alarms and contact the responsible authorities in the future. We create a new market by providing a plug-and-protect solution at greatly reduced production- and environmental costs due to dramatically reduced battery sizes.
We aim to supply 0.5% of EU beehives with our anti-theft product within the next 5 years. Given a total of 18 million beehives in the EU we are planning to sell 90,000 products that generate a total revenue of 8.1 million Euros and create 20 new jobs over the next 5 years.
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