The last years have been marked by a massive decrease in bee population. Intensive agriculture and the massive use of pesticides have contributed to this decline. Today, bees are also facing a natural danger : hornets, especially Asian ones. A few of them can decimate a whole bee colony.
In order to tackle this issue, Bee Safe is an AI based technology designed to identify hornets nearby the hive. A sensor recognizes the hornets that come to attack the hive and sends a notification to the beekeeper. It also helps public authorities to take a census of hornet population and contain its spread accross the country.
Marchine learning enables to distinguish a hornet from a bee and makes the tool efficient in real time for beekeepers. Deep learning, a subset of machine learning, uses an artificial neural network toclassify images. If you are looking for a funny way to learn how image classification works, let's take a look at the video below. Last but not least, discover how AI could help fixing some ofenvironmental issues.