Journal of Apiculture (한국양봉학회지)

The Apicultural Society of Korea (한국양봉학회)
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Automatic Bee-Counting System with Dual Infrared Sensor based on ICT

ICT 기반 이중 적외선 센서를 이용한 꿀벌 출입 자동 모니터링 시스템

  • Son, Jae Deok (Division of Exhibition Management, National Science Museum) ;
  • Lim, Sooho (Division of Life Sciences, Major of Biological Sciences, Incheon National University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-In (Division of Life Sciences, Major of Biological Sciences, Incheon National University) ;
  • Han, Giyoun (Division of Life Sciences, Major of Biological Sciences, Incheon National University) ;
  • Ilyasov, Rustem (Division of Life Sciences, Major of Biological Sciences, Incheon National University) ;
  • Yunusbaev, Ural (Division of Life Sciences, Major of Biological Sciences, Incheon National University) ;
  • Kwon, Hyung Wook (Division of Life Sciences, Major of Biological Sciences, Incheon National University)
  • 손재덕 (국립과천과학관 전시관리과) ;
  • 임수호 (인천대학교 생명과학부) ;
  • 김동인 (인천대학교 생명과학부) ;
  • 한기윤 (인천대학교 생명과학부) ;
  • ;
  • ;
  • 권형욱 (인천대학교 생명과학부)
  • Received : 2019.03.08
  • Accepted : 2019.04.24
  • Published : 2019.04.30
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Abstract

Honey bees are a vital part of the food chain as the most important pollinators for a broad palette of crops and wild plants. The climate change and colony collapse disorder (CCD) phenomenon make it challenging to develop ICT solutions to predict changes in beehive and alert about potential threats. In this paper, we report the test results of the bee-counting system which stands out against the previous analogues due to its comprehensive components including an improved dual infrared sensor to detect honey bees entering and leaving the hive, environmental sensors that measure ambient and interior, a wireless network with the bluetooth low energy (BLE) to transmit the sensing data in real time to the gateway, and a cloud which accumulate and analyze data. To assess the system accuracy, 3 persons manually counted the outgoing and incoming honey bees using the video record of 360-minute length. The difference between automatic and manual measurements for outgoing and incoming scores were 3.98% and 4.43% respectively. These differences are relatively lower than previous analogues, which inspires a vision that the tested system is a good candidate to use in precise apicultural industry, scientific research and education.

다양한 농업 생산 분야에서 정보통신기술 (ICT, Information and Communications Technologies)이 융합하여 많은 발전을 이루어내고 있다. 꿀벌의 활동과 관련한 온·습도, 음파, 이산화탄소, 암모니아, 황화수소 등 다양한 봉군내·외의 요인들과 꿀벌의 활동 추적에 대한 ICT 융복합 시스템 개발연구가 최근 이슈화되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이중 적외선 센서(QRE1113)를 이용하여 꿀벌 출입 자동 모니터링 시스템을 구현하여 실측 자료를 비교·분석하였다. 꿀벌의 방화행동을 연구하는 기존의 밀원식물 방화 개체 수 측정, 영상촬영을 통한 출입 활동 수 수동 분석, 해외 다양한 자동모니터링 시스템들과 비교하여 본 시스템은 모니터링 시간과 노력의 단축 및 외부 방화 활동과의 일치성, 수동 분석과 상대 오차 5% 미만으로 높은 실효성을 보였다. 또한, 저전력블루투스(BLE)모듈을 활용한 내·외부 온도 센서와 병행을 통해 시스템의 확장성을 확보하였으며, 이 시스템으로부터 확보한 한달간의 데이터 분석을 통해 온도와 방화행동 간 상관관계 분석 및 하루 평균 손실되는 꿀벌의 개체수(출역봉의 1.88%)를 측정할 수 있었다. 향후 복합적인 모니터링 시스템 확장과 빅데이터 축적을 통해 더욱 강력한 실시간 모니터링 도구 및 꿀벌 생태 교육자료로 양봉 산업 발전에 크게 기여할 수 있고, 과학적 분석 도구로 활용될 것이다.

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