At the hive
Counts flights in and out, listens to the colony and measures light and climate at the entrance. So you see the activity of every bee or bumblebee colony.
Pollination monitoring for greenhouses
BeeSensing: instant insight into your pollination. Every day, in every section.
HiveWatcher measures continuously and automatically how well your crop is pollinated: at the bee or bumblebee colony and on the flower. So you know where extra hives are needed, when a colony needs replacing, and how climate and LED lighting affect pollination and fruit set.
Measuring where it happens
HiveWatcher brings precision pollination to the greenhouse. It consists of three types of sensors, the HiveWatcher portal for the grower and an app to manage the sensors. Measurements are processed inside the greenhouse; only compact measurement data is sent to the portal.
On the flower
The BeeNode, a camera in the crop, sees the approach and landing on flowers and counts the actual pollination visits.
Wireless across the greenhouse
A central receiver collects all measurements, even through glass, steel and dense crops.
Advice for the grower
The HiveWatcher portal shows pollination per greenhouse and section, with alerts when something is off.
Manage with the app
Manage the sensors from your phone, tablet or laptop, right in the greenhouse.
Weekly report by email
Every Monday the figures for each greenhouse in your mailbox, next to the week before.
From measurement to action
Measure
HiveNodes at the hives and BeeNodes in the crop measure day and night.
Understand
HiveWatcher combines flight activity, visits, climate and light.
Act
You get concrete advice: which hives to replace, where to add hives, what to adjust.
For every pollinated crop
Pollination works differently in every crop. HiveWatcher measures where it matters for yours.
- Tomatoes: bumblebee activity and flower visits instead of counting bite marks.
- Strawberries and soft fruit: strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, under glass and in polytunnels.
- Sweet pepper, aubergine, melon and courgette: fruit set and pollinator activity in fruiting vegetables.
Pollination monitoring: frequently asked questions
What is pollination monitoring?
Pollination monitoring means measuring continuously how active your pollinators are and whether they visit the flowers, instead of checking now and then by hand. HiveWatcher does this at the hive and in the crop, per greenhouse and per section.
What is precision pollination?
Precision pollination is managing pollination with data: placing and replacing bee or bumblebee colonies based on measured activity per section, the way you manage climate and irrigation.
How does HiveWatcher help with pollination management in the greenhouse?
You see which colonies are fading, which sections get too few flower visits, and how climate and LED lighting affect pollinator activity. That tells you where to add hives, when to replace them and what to adjust. Read about pollination under LED lighting.
How is this different from counting by hand?
A manual check is a snapshot; monitoring measures all day, every day. See pollination monitoring vs manual counting.
Already using HiveWatcher?
Log in to the portal to view your greenhouses, nodes and alerts.
Join a pilot
We are looking for growers who want to measure pollination in their greenhouse together with us. Curious what it could mean for your business?