SAMS system implementation ETH and IND
System implementation Indonesia
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System implementation Indonesia
Some adjustments and findings are discovered within the SAMS monitoring system’s implementation process and usability testing in Indonesia. These findings will significantly contribute to business potential mapping and development. Some of the main findings are:
- Beekeepers have a limited budget, and technology is not yet considered in beekeeping practices.
- Local beekeepers found it valuable to monitor trap-hives (modern beehives used to trap new bee colony), placed deep in the forest, so power source became the main concern for such systems.
- Cheaper monitoring system that simple and easy to augment to the existing modern beehive is preferable.
- Improvement of sustainable power source beside solar panel, considering that the SAMS HIVE system is often put deep in the forest.
- Smaller or simple monitoring system components that easy to bring while travel on foot to the remote apiary site.
Some aspects concerning the beekeeping ecosystem in target countries also need to be considered; for example, the Indonesian beekeeping ecosystem is not yet developed as the beekeeping ecosystem in Ethiopia or Europe. This immaturity of the ecosystem resulting in a lack of integrated support from beekeeping stakeholders. So simple technology is considered a better option to first improved the ecosystem.
