Pollination Insight Platform
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
BeeHero recently announced the expanded application of its Pollination Insight Platform to the apple market, providing growers with actionable, data-driven insights. Co-founder Itai Kanot says this Pollination Insight Platform or PIP for short, can monitor actual bee activity on the flowers during pollination.
Kanot…” The PIP include infield sensors that we spread in the field. In the case of apple pollination, we will hang them on the trees, and we're able to monitor the actual bee activity. So these sensors with acoustics can identify the sound signature of a bee going into a flower to pollinate it. And this sound signature is very different than the sound signature of, let's say, a bee just flying by. So we're able to identify those instances where the bees are actually going into the flower to pollinate it, count those instances, and together with the grower build benchmarks to what a good pollination is, understand if there's a good enough spread across the orchard and a lot more. But basically we bring a lot of information that was just not available previously, especially not at a large scale, commercial scale.”
Kanot says the goal is to maximize the efficiency of every dollar a grower spends on their pollination efforts.
