Know your pollinators.
Precision IoT monitoring for bumblebees and honeybees — engineered for the world's harshest climates.
Explore the System14 years of development · Multi-year battery life · Indoor & outdoor
Precision IoT monitoring for bumblebees and honeybees — engineered for the world's harshest climates.
Explore the System14 years of development · Multi-year battery life · Indoor & outdoor
One-third of global food production depends on pollinators. Yet pollination remains the least measured, least controlled input in modern agriculture. Growers invest in irrigation, fertilization, and climate control — but pollination? It's left to chance.
of food crops depend on animal pollination
UAE summer temperatures that stress pollinator colonies
visibility most growers have into pollinator activity
Bumblebee and honeybee monitoring. One ecosystem. Every environment.
Track every flight. Measure pollination as it happens.
Non-intrusive optical counter monitoring bumblebee activity at the hive entrance. Counts incoming and outgoing flights and distinguishes drones from worker bees, helping track colony lifespan and activity patterns. Also measures outside temperature and humidity. Designed for most commonly used bumblebee hives in greenhouse pollination.
Monitor apiary health. Know your colonies.
Optical counter mounted on Langstroth and classic hive entrances. Tracks foraging activity and measures outside temperature and humidity. Complemented by in-hive sensors for brood temperature, acoustics, and other parameters — giving beekeepers and researchers real-time visibility into colony strength and health.
Your field network. Indoor or outdoor.
Collects data from all bee counters within range via BLE Long Range, stores up to 218 days of records locally, and uploads to the cloud via cellular or Ethernet.
Indoor
USB-C powered, Ethernet + WiFi, for greenhouse deployment
Outdoor
Solar + LiPo, cellular (Cat-M1/NB-IoT/2G), for open-field deployment
Both variants share the same firmware core and data protocol — one system, any environment.
Data turns pollination from a cost center into a managed input.
Delivery verification
Confirm the hive was delivered alive and active. No more relying on visual checks — the counter tells you from the first hour whether the colony is viable.
Extend hive lifespan beyond 8 weeks
Track activity trends over time to identify when a hive is still productive. Many hives are replaced on a fixed schedule — data lets you use them longer, generating substantial savings on replacement costs.
Compare hive productivity
Benchmark performance across hives, batches, and breeding companies. Use objective data to negotiate with suppliers and select the best-performing colonies.
Colony health monitoring
Track foraging activity, brood temperature, and acoustics to detect swarming, queen loss, disease, or colony collapse — early, before it's visible.
Apiary management at scale
Monitor dozens or hundreds of hives from a single dashboard. Know which colonies need attention without visiting each one.
Research & breeding insights
High-resolution flight data combined with environmental conditions enables behavioral research, breeding program evaluation, and pollination efficacy studies.
Four steps from hive to dashboard.
Counter
detects every bee pass
Gateway
scans counters via BLE
Gateway
buffers 218 days locally
Cloud
dashboard & alerts
Engineering decisions, not marketing claims.
CR2032 coin cell lasts 3.8+ years. No charging, no solar on the counter. Set it and forget it.
-40°C to +85°C components, IP65 outdoor gateway, solar-powered for off-grid deployment. Tested for UAE conditions.
Coded PHY (S=8) extends BLE range to 200m+ open field. No WiFi infrastructure needed at the crop.
Gateway stores 262,000+ records in SPI flash. If cellular drops, no data is lost. Circular buffer auto-manages.
Indoor and outdoor gateways share 80%+ codebase. Consistent data format, same cloud API.
Designed by an engineer who has spent 14 years building low-power IoT systems. Every component chosen for a reason.
The UAE imports approximately 80–90% of its food. National food security strategies are driving massive investment in controlled-environment agriculture — greenhouses, vertical farms, and protected cultivation. All of these depend on managed pollinators.
But the Arabian Gulf climate is brutal for bees. Summer temperatures exceeding 45°C, extreme humidity (or sudden absence of it), and limited native flora create constant stress on pollinator colonies. If we can monitor and optimize pollination here, we can do it anywhere.
apin.ae is seeking pilot partners
In UAE greenhouse operations, protected agriculture, and open-field apiaries. If you manage pollinators, we should talk.
Get in TouchOver 14 years of designing low-power embedded systems, every component selection in the Apin system has been refined through iteration. The 6.24 µA average current isn't accidental — it's the result of 25 nA regulators, nanoamp comparators, and a power architecture where every microamp is accounted for.
The schematics are published. The power budgets are verifiable. This is engineering you can audit.
Apinae — the bee subfamily that includes both bumblebees and honeybees. Apin is where our name comes from. .ae is the UAE, our home and first deployment.
Whether you manage a greenhouse, an apiary, or a research station — we'd like to hear from you.
buzz@apin.ae