IoT for Smart Apiculture: Issues and Solutions

Beekeeping or modern Apiculture is the act of rearing beehives for the purpose of cultivating honey, a nutrient that is also used in several industries, and its derivatives. Smart apiculture is a relatively new domain seeking to improve modern beekeeping using novel technologies. In this paper we seek to shed light on both the intricacies of modern beekeeping, the used technologies in intelligent apiculture and survey the challenges and issues that face them as a basis for building better solutions. The aim is to offer a full-fledged and summarized survey of the domain thus opening the door for future solution adaptation and/or proposal.