Status of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia

Information and communication technologies are part of almost any branch of human lives. During the last decade also beekeeping joined the direction of application of IT tools and solutions and precision beekeeping was defined. Still in the beekeeping many operations and observations are completed m...

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Autores principales: Zacepins Aleksejs, Kviesis Armands, Komasilovs Vitalijs, Brusbardis Valters, Kronbergs Janis
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e6c3027158294a819308eedcbc29f10f2021-12-05T14:11:09ZStatus of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia2256-093910.2478/plua-2021-0010https://doaj.org/article/e6c3027158294a819308eedcbc29f10f2021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/plua-2021-0010https://doaj.org/toc/2256-0939Information and communication technologies are part of almost any branch of human lives. During the last decade also beekeeping joined the direction of application of IT tools and solutions and precision beekeeping was defined. Still in the beekeeping many operations and observations are completed manually, and there is a potential to switch to the digital realisation. Information technologies can be used in the beekeeping to partly support the beekeepers by implementation of automatic or semi-automatic solutions for bee colony remote monitoring, apiary record making and other actions. The aim of this paper is to make a summary of the usage of information technology tools by the beekeepers in Latvia, summarizing precision beekeeping development status and conclude about its future development potential. To achieve this aim, in cooperation with Latvian Beekeepers Association, a beekeepers survey was conducted. More than 200 beekeepers shared thoughts and opinions about their application of information and communication technologies for monitoring the bee colonies and apiary management. The summary of the survey conducted is described in this study.Zacepins AleksejsKviesis ArmandsKomasilovs VitalijsBrusbardis ValtersKronbergs JanisSciendoarticleprecision beekeepingprecision apicultureapiary managementcolony monitoringbeekeeping in latviaAgriculture (General)S1-972ENLVRural Sustainability Research, Vol 45, Iss 340, Pp 86-92 (2021)
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LV
topic precision beekeeping
precision apiculture
apiary management
colony monitoring
beekeeping in latvia
Agriculture (General)
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spellingShingle precision beekeeping
precision apiculture
apiary management
colony monitoring
beekeeping in latvia
Agriculture (General)
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Zacepins Aleksejs
Kviesis Armands
Komasilovs Vitalijs
Brusbardis Valters
Kronbergs Janis
Status of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia
description Information and communication technologies are part of almost any branch of human lives. During the last decade also beekeeping joined the direction of application of IT tools and solutions and precision beekeeping was defined. Still in the beekeeping many operations and observations are completed manually, and there is a potential to switch to the digital realisation. Information technologies can be used in the beekeeping to partly support the beekeepers by implementation of automatic or semi-automatic solutions for bee colony remote monitoring, apiary record making and other actions. The aim of this paper is to make a summary of the usage of information technology tools by the beekeepers in Latvia, summarizing precision beekeeping development status and conclude about its future development potential. To achieve this aim, in cooperation with Latvian Beekeepers Association, a beekeepers survey was conducted. More than 200 beekeepers shared thoughts and opinions about their application of information and communication technologies for monitoring the bee colonies and apiary management. The summary of the survey conducted is described in this study.
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author Zacepins Aleksejs
Kviesis Armands
Komasilovs Vitalijs
Brusbardis Valters
Kronbergs Janis
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Brusbardis Valters
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title Status of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia
title_short Status of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia
title_full Status of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia
title_fullStr Status of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia
title_full_unstemmed Status of the Precision Beekeeping Development in Latvia
title_sort status of the precision beekeeping development in latvia
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