vschlegel/beehive-scale

lora-bienenstockwaage

beehive-scale

beehive-scale is an open-source project that measures the weight of your beehives and sends it to a monitoring server via LoRaWAN. Basically, it's Internet of Bees (IOB).

Warning

This project is under develpoment and things might not work yet.

Overview

• Hardware
  • Mechanics
    • Steel Frame
    • Electronics Enclosure
  • PCB
    • Battery Powered
    • Heltec Cubecell HTCC AB01
    • HX711 load cell amplifier
• Firmware
  • Platformio (Arduino-Compatible)
  • Libraries used:
    • Heltec: CubeCell Libraries
    • Rob Tillaart: HX711
    • ElectronicCats: Cayenne LPP
    • BBlanchon: ArduinoJSON
  • measures load & sends values to the LoRaWAN network
  • calibration and other settings over serial commands and stored in EEPROM
• LoRaWAN
  • OTAA
  • data transfer over MQTT
• Server
  • Telegraf
  • InfluxDB
  • Grafana