Energy harvesting devices for honey bee health monitoring

A novel approach for real-time monitoring of honey bees across their entire foraging range is presented herein. Energy harvesting of bee mechanical vibrations is used to power the transmission of bee location data while ensuring minimal physical harm or flight hindrance. Additionally a 5.8 GHz receiver is integrated in a multisource energy harvesting unit which utilizes wind, solar and RF energy scavenging to monitor the location of the bees. Designs and considerations for the power circuitry, transmitter and receiver are discussed.