AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR YEAR-AROUND MONITORING OF AMOUNT OF HONEY IN HIVES OF BEE COLONIES Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A01K47/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of beekeeping and can be used in practical work on individual and collective apiaries. The automated system includes a capacitive transducer comprising a unit of hive condensers, an inverted amplifier, a sinusoidal generator, a device for rectification, a differential amplifier, apiary controller, apiary transceiver. The hive controller includes a hive microcontroller with built-in analog-digital converter, a controlled unit of zero setting, a controlled device of scaling differential amplifier, the device of power on-off of hive controller. The units of hive condensers are placed in the hive buildings which walls are composed of three insulating materials: wood-layered plywood, foam plastic, wood-layered plywood and metal plate. In the body of the hive from the outside a deepening is made accommodate the hive controller. Insulated conductors from four hive plates are connected with the scheme of hive controller.

EFFECT: automated system enables to monitor simultaneously the mass of honey brought by all the hives of apiary during the honey-flow, as well as the amount of honey in a passive period of maintenance, that is, when wintering of bees.

2 cl, 9 dwg