Agriculture / Operations

HiveBuzziness

An apiary operations platform built for a working commercial beekeeping operation — roughly 5,000 hives spread across 100+ yards, worked by seasonal crews. It replaces paper logs and guesswork with GPS-stamped field records and a scheduling engine that always knows what's due next.

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What it does

A crew member arrives at a yard, logs what they did — treatments, feeding, inspections — along with any issues and photos. Every entry is stamped with who, when, and GPS location. A dashboard reads those logs and computes which yards are due for which work, based on configurable maintenance programs, event chains, and condition thresholds.

The operation runs a mixed model — migratory hives on pollination contracts (like almonds) alongside stationary honey production — and the UI is built for high-turnover seasonal crews: fast to use and hard to get wrong.

Highlights

  • GPS-stamped field logging — every log records who, when, and where, with photo attachments, so work is fully attributable.
  • Scheduling engine — configurable programs, event chains, and condition thresholds drive a "what's due" dashboard across all yards.
  • Mite-treatment tracking — treatment durations, temperature bands, and product rotation encoded into the schedule logic.
  • Individual crew accounts — real per-user auth and sessions so every action attributes to a person, not a shared login.
  • Maps & weather — yard pins on Leaflet/OpenStreetMap with per-yard forecasts pulled by GPS coordinates.
  • Security-conscious — yard coordinates and site details stay behind auth; nothing location-sensitive is exposed publicly.

Tech stack

Python FastAPI SQLite Leaflet + OpenStreetMap Weather API nginx systemd DigitalOcean

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