Image: Ingo Arndt
Protecting Pollinators,
People & the Planet
All of us depend on biodiversity for nutritious food, clean air, fresh water, and a stable climate.
This is why data-based biodiversity restoration underpins all The World Bee Project solutions.
Innovation at the Service of Bees
The World Bee Project CIC is the first private initiative in the world that uses AI and advanced technologies to monitor pollinator and biodiversity declines from a global perspective, and find long term solutions to benefit both nature and people, not one at the cost of the other.
Innovative Data Driven Solutions
The World Bee Project is developing data driven innovative solutions such as the World Hive Network© to address pollinator health challenges in cities as well as in smallholder farms and agriculture and food supply chains.
We Need Bees
Over 75% of the nutritious food we eat depends on pollination. Pollination sustains global food security, crop production, farmer livelihoods, wild plant diversity, ecosystem balance, healthy soils and clean air.
Connecting Hives, Connecting Lives
The World Bee Project supports, connects, and amplifies new technologies and scientific study to improve the health and wellbeing of bees and other pollinators. It uses Artificial Intelligence (AI), data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) to power the World Hive Network© to generate solutions to wider issues of biodiversity, climate change, food security and human wellbeing.
The Bees Need Us
Intensive farming, harmful pesticides, overpopulation, urban sprawl, loss of floral habitats, deforestation and climate change are all placing devastating pressures on pollinators. We address the need for data-based understanding and nature positive solutions.
What We Do
We harness the power of bee-derived intelligence and create data-driven solutions to improve the management capacity of underlying support systems. We adaptively design and co-implement solutions, focussing on the interconnections between bees and people in the context of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Mission
Our mission is to blend Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computing technology with world leading bee research to find solutions to biodiversity declines, climate change, food and nutrition insecurity, and threats to human wellbeing.
Vision
Our vision is grounded in advanced technology and informed by real world capabilities. We aim to generate key knowledge to enhance the contribution of pollinators to biodiversity, food security, climate mitigation and human wellbeing.
The World Bee Project’s greater vision is to place the natural world at the heart of public policy and enshrine environmental protection in national constitutions.
Pillars
The World Bee Project innovation consists of three pillars, the World Hive Network©, the World Bee Welfare© mark, and World Bee City©. In all our projects, we use the knowledge and insights we generate from these mechanisms to provide benefits for Pollinators, People, and the Planet.
The World Hive Network©
The World Hive Network© is the world’s first global bee health platform and now has 50,000 intelligent hives in its network. It uses AI, IoT and Big Data driven technology to remotely monitor honeybees to generate understanding of the pollinator and pollination crisis from a global perspective.
World Bee City©
World Bee City© seeks to place pollinators at the heart of cities to enhance the wellbeing of pollinators and people, both. Monitoring technology can change the game for conservation in urban locations by identifying restoration actions that need to be taken.
World Bee Mark©
The World Bee Mark© eco-label will drive responsible production and consumption of honeys with supply chain traceability and transparency technologies.We are developing the eco-label certification with OpenSc.
Tech for Good Solutions©
Tech for Good Solutions© To enable new perspectives we create digital infrastructure to provide actual data to support new environmental interventions, particularly in testing and modelling.
The World Bee Project partners with BeeHero for advanced monitoring sensor technology
Symphony No.18 in Bee Major, by Andy Welch
This is yet another example of how the bees never cease to inspire us. To create this Symphony No. 18 in Bee Major, our Andy Welch took the audio files from one of The World Bee Project hives over 24 hours and every 15 minutes and compared the volume just for the frequencies which correspond to musical notes in a major key. He then selected the loudest note and ended up with 96 musical notes. As it might be somewhat dull if all the notes were of the same length, he shortened the louder notes. This is why the music quickens when there’s more volume /activity. Andy created the digital twin bees by using an algorithm which takes the original video footage of a bee and converts it into an artistic version of the original. Copyright: Andy Welch.
The World Hive Network©
The World Hive Network© is the world’s first global bee health platform and now has 50,000 intelligent hives in its network. It uses AI, IoT and Big Data driven technology to remotely monitor honeybees to generate understanding of the pollinator and pollination crisis from a global perspective.
World Bee Mark©
The World Bee Mark© is awarded to industry and business applicants that adopt a range of practices that improve bee and pollinator health and human wellbeing. We are developing the certification criteria with Peterson Control Union.
World Bee City©
World Bee City© seeks to place pollinators at the heart of cities to enhance the wellbeing of pollinators and people, both. Monitoring technology can change the game for conservation in urban locations by identifying restoration actions that need to be taken.
Tech for Good Solutions©
Tech for Good Solutions© use AI enabled sensor technology to help beekeepers and smallholder framers to increase their yields, enhance their incomes, and improve agricultural biodiversity through Precision Apiculture and Precision Agriculture.