Third update of the Apivox Smart Monitor app - Apivox Smart Monitor_r3

 Apivox project is releasing the third update of the Apivox Smart Monitor app, which we will begin to make and send to our customers, from January 2021.  New version of the application Apivox Smart Monitor ( r3)  has improved diagnostic of the state of bees in the main operating mode of the device - in General State Control mode. Added information messages about some new states based on a combination of acoustic signals emitted by bees during various types of work in the hive. Diagnostics has become even more complete and accurate. At the same time, the price of the application remains unchanged at $ 40 or € 30. Today it is the cheapest solution for the most accurate diagnostics of the condition of your bees, available both to an amateur beekeeper with a couple of hives, and to professionals who have apiaries with dozens of bee colonies. And as you remember,  diagnostics does not require opening the hives and disturbing the bees. This is especially important for those who keep bees near residential buildings, and especially for urban beekeepers.

 Together with the app you will receive manual and the book on the theory of acoustic control of the bees' families - " LISTENING FOR THE BEES" or "ISSUES OF BIOACOUSTICS"! This book is an unique knowledge set about the most unusual way of understanding the life of bees, and about its use in beekeeping practice. Another book which you'll receive- is the book on Varroa mites combating - "FEATURES OF DEVELOPMENT OF VARROA MITES' POPULATION  IN THE FAMILIES OF HONEY BEES, AND NEW EFFECTIVE  METHODS OF SUPPRESSION OF THEIR  DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT THE USE OF CHEMICAL DRUGS".

APIVOX SMART MONITOR. DIFFERENCES IN THE VALUES OF THE SIGNALS IN BROOD CONTROL MODE, IN THE PRESENCE OF OPEN AND SEALED BROOD.

As we mentioned in the book, bees emit vibro-acoustic signals when caring for brood. This does not apply to any type of brood, but only to open brood. Only taking care of it - heating and aeration cause the appearance of vibro-acoustic signals that we can hear, see on the screen of the Apivox Smart Monitor device, and interpret correctly.

 Let's give an example ... We will consider three colonies of bees in the fall, when the brood rearing ends in the colonies ... but not at the same time. This allows us to monitor families in different conditions. Some families have only sealed brood, and some families have both sealed and open brood in different quantities.

In this family, brood hatching is finished. Despite the fact that there are frames with sealed brood, there is practically no care for open brood. The check of the hive shows presence only of the last sealed brood . We do not see eggs and larvae. And the device shows the corresponding diagnostics ... The graph is white, which means that the bees perform all kind of works without any emphasis on brood care. This is a fairly active process and if it is present it immediately becomes noticeable on the diagnostic graph.

In the next hive, the situation is different. Here we see a small amount of open brood - young larvae and eggs. There are very few sealed brood. Apparently the queen finished laying eggs, and then little by little continued it. The presence of an open brood is confirmed by the red peaks on the plot obtained in the Brood Control mode. There is not much open brood and it does not take too much time to care for it. Mostly bees are engaged in other works inside the hive.

In the third hive, the situation is intermediate. Exists both, open and sealed brood. There is still quite a lot of open brood and therefore we see three red peaks on the graph. Bees turn to brood care more often.

The two graphs in hives 1 and 3 were made at different times. It is clearly seen that it is better to check families for the amount of open brood either in the morning or in the late afternoon, when the work on honey collection subsides. Then the readings of the device become more accurate and visual.