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How is  the project to perfect and market an inexpensive remote hive/yard  
monitoring and analyzing system coming along?
 
Not as well as I hoped.  We did get a modular hive and pallet  controller 
at end of summer, and a bee counter that seems to work that would be  cheap 
to build.
 
The hangup has still been 'inexpensive'.  We went through a lot of  counter 
iterations, each had a major drawback - cost, or ruggedness, or  
durability.  Satellite/phone  rates have been another.
 
We're looking more to acoustics for reducing costs - and we have  a year of 
funding to pull this off, which is now at the top of our priority  list.  
For past 5 years, we've had to prioritize the LIDAR system for  mapping  of 
bees.
 
I'm a bit frustrated at the slow process re remote hives.  We had  working 
ones as far back as 1995.  But, its been a matter of waiting for  some of 
the enabling technologies to  truly catch up.  
 
Ask me next summer.  Its snowing today.
 
Jerry

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