BeeScanning

A project in Stockholm, Sweden by Björn Lagerman
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Varroa mites kills bees! BeeScanning reveals the parasite. Tells beekeeper to treat. Take picture with your phone, let the App analyze.
Backers: 317
Average Pledge Per Backer: kr349 SEK

Funded: kr110,555 SEK of kr50,000 SEK
Dates: May 1st -> Jun 4th (35 days)
Project By: Björn Lagerman
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Latest News

One hour left

June 4th - via: kickstarter.com
With one hour left before our campaign ends we like to send a humble, "Thank you Backers"! Exceeding 200% and connecting with many beekeepers all over the world and receiving public funds nothing can stop BeeScanning from coming true! Thats awesome... (Read More)

New UI, user interface

June 4th - via: kickstarter.com
The tool for working with images that you beekeepers upload at http://beeweb-dev.teorem.se is just in beta and will soon have new functionality and design. Please stay tuned, take pictures of your bees on brood frames and upload. If you want to get... (Read More)

Extraordinary Fantastic News

June 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
BeeScanning will be fully funded!  eu eip We have been selected by the Swedish Agricultural Department external assessment board "As a good innovation project that fits to the purpose of the European Innovation Program" We are asked to complete... (Read More)

Join the project!

June 1st - via: kickstarter.com
If you want to participate in the project. We need help from skilled beekeepers with trained eyes to tag images that beekeepers upload. The labeled regions will serve the training of the neural network that we now has started building. We don't know... (Read More)

Great things are about to happen

June 1st - via: kickstarter.com
We are receiving signals that decisions of major importance to the project are going our way! Please stay tuned!    (Read More)

Swedish Podcast

May 31st - via: kickstarter.com
This is all in Swedish! Totally exotic to many of you backer friends. https://biodlarpodden.se/2-bjorn-lagerman-beescanning/ Biodlarpodden  (Read More)

BeeTagTool Launching

May 30th - via: kickstarter.com
New revolutionary tool launchingFor the first time beekeepers around the world can collaborate combating Varro destructor thanks to Kickstarter fundings.BeeScanning with BeeTagTool: is building the largest database of visually tagged photographs of... (Read More)

Chinese subtitles

May 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to Victor at iMicroscope   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1289187249/imicroscope-r-bring-a-microscope-with-your-phone?ref=nav_search we are thrilled to encourage our Chinese speaking friends viewing our video with subtitles in... (Read More)

Revolutionary new tool imminent

May 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Get preview of beta testing version at http://beescanning.com/eng/ BeeScanningWeb    (Read More)

BeeScanning and iMicroscope: Assist Beekeepers to Identify mites

May 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Watch the nice update from iMicroscope https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1289187249/imicroscope-r-bring-a-microscope-with-your-phone/posts/1896380?ref=backer_project_update imicro    (Read More)

iMicroscope

May 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Another Kickstarter project that may provide an interesting tool to BeeScanning research and keen beekeepers. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1289187249/imicroscope-r-bring-a-microscope-with-your-phone?ref=7kat2k iMicroscope    (Read More)

Swedish Professional Beekeepers on BeeScanning

May 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Great article in "Gadden" For Swedish audience. Gadden Artikel i Gadden om BeeScanning kan läsas via beescanning.com http://beescanning.com/eng/2017/05/24/gadden-om-beescanning/  (Read More)

Digital Trend

May 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Digital Trend today published a very to the point article on BeeScanning.  Digital Trends  https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/bee-scanning-app-kickstarter/  (Read More)

New tool is imminent

May 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Beekeepers please take pictures of your bees. Both for your own and your bees sake as well as for the training of the neuron network. A tool is on its way thanks to the Kickstarter fundings. Here some images I took today. These bees needs help! Queen... (Read More)

Subtitles now in 9 languages

May 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Latest contribution from Croatia! We are so grateful to all support making this happen!  (Read More)

New Beekeeping App Spots Pests And Infections That Destroy Bee Colonies

May 22nd - via: snapmunk.com
A beekeeping app on Kickstarter that uses crowdsourced data and deep learning to help fight the many dangers for colonies. (Read More)

Youtube coverage

May 20th - via: kickstarter.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et7rBJXaAjo&feature=youtu.be Jump in at 3.00!  (Read More)

Swedish TV-news

May 20th - via: kickstarter.com
BeeScanning covered by https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/orebro/ny-app-ska-radda-bin SVT news When Björn Lagerman in Lindesberg took pictures of hes bees he discovered the lethal parasite Varroa in the images. Thats when the idea to create an app... (Read More)

Project We Love

May 17th - via: kickstarter.com
BeeScanning has been selected by the Kickstarter team among thousands of projects. It means we can reach a new level of exposure to a worldwide audience. Its really something extra! pwl    (Read More)

Digital Journal covering BeeScanning

May 17th - via: kickstarter.com
New US tech media covering BeeScanning  http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3347240  (Read More)

Poor drone dies from varroa

May 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Varroa doomed this drone! Watch the deformed wings. Looks awful but its a small tribute for the saving of the society in colony 144 that has this remarkable capacity to defend themselves against varroa parasite.    (Read More)

American podcast on BeeScanning at "Data Stories That Moves You"

May 14th - via: kickstarter.com
podcast http://vaultanalytics.com/podcast/preventing-a-honeybee-fallout/  On iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/data-crunch/id1165189603  (Read More)

International media coverage

May 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Rings on water spreading!  US: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/02/beekeepers/ Italian:  http://www.macitynet.it/varroasi-la-malattia-incubo-degli-apicoltori-si-puo-monitorare-liphone/ Norwegian:... (Read More)

Trailer

May 12th - via: kickstarter.com
You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content. Play Replay with sound Play with sound 00:00 00:00 Off English  The trailer is a short version off the original video, with some minor addons, that wraps it up in 1.33!  (Read More)

New tool emerging

May 12th - via: kickstarter.com
We will soon launch a tool that beekeepers can use for uploading and then labeling areas in images where an infested bee is identified. This tool will be directly payed with the funds we received so far. The labeled images will serve the neural... (Read More)

Streching goals

May 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Stretching Goals We are overwhelmed by the attention and support the project has received. You, the backers, made it we met our initial goal $ 5k in 10 days! As described below this means we now are building the infrastructure to handle images from... (Read More)

Target reached! Thank you backers!

May 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Can you imagine! We just passed our goal, in 10 days! We are now building the structure to collect the images from worlds beekeepers.We are stunned and so happy. It means we can move on to our next level. Gearing up on neural networks deployment.... (Read More)

Norwegian news media

May 10th - via: kickstarter.com
We are so exited the news are spreading. Today an article in leading business media in Norway. https://www.dn.no/grunder/2017/05/04/1327/Handel/bruker-kunstig-intelligens-til-a-redde-bier Headline says "Uses artificial intelligence to save the bees"... (Read More)

Without bees flowers will be gone

May 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you Kyoko pointing out the obvious! What is the importance of bees. When you are in it you don't always see the most important thing. Bees are so vital and an indispensable part of our global environment that you take it for granted that... (Read More)

Trailer draft

May 8th - via: kickstarter.com
You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content. Play Replay with sound Play with sound 00:00 00:00  Hi Backers Here is Loves first draft of trailer. What do you think should go to make it under 40 sek! What is missing/should be added? For... (Read More)

Small updates

May 7th - via: kickstarter.com
The site http://beescanning.com now has new icons to switch language. Thx Rikard The T-shirt reward image is now in a proper graphic standard. Added info that the music tracks in the video are made for the project. Thanks Rikard for pointing out what... (Read More)

Japanese subtitles

May 7th - via: kickstarter.com
We are so grateful to all contributions from you backers. We just received a translation to japanese subtitles in the video. Thanks to Kyosuke Matsuo! Varroa is a global threat so its great to be able to reach out!  Björn  (Read More)

Interview for podcast

May 6th - via: kickstarter.com
We have been invited to an interview on a podcast tonight 09:00 p.m. (Sweden time) http://vaultanalytics.com/datacrunch/  (Read More)

Video subtitles in russian

May 6th - via: kickstarter.com
We just added subtitles in russian. Reaching out to many slavic speaking beekeepers in eastern Europe and Russia.  (Read More)

BeeScanning article now in japanese

May 6th - via: kickstarter.com
http://jp.techcrunch.com/2017/05/03/20170502beekeepers/  (Read More)

English subtitles in video

May 5th - via: kickstarter.com
We just added subtitles in english. We hope its useful to many. Russian pending!  (Read More)

How BeeScanning analyzes images

May 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
How BeeScanning analyzes images   How does the neural network learn? The neural network is actively taught by a deep learning professional who has access to a good amount of training data. In short, an image of a varroa infested bee is shown to the... (Read More)

BeeScanning promoted in US media

May 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/02/beekeepers/ Techcrunch    (Read More)

Application for innovation group approved

May 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Europea Innovation Program, EIP   Great News! We are so happy that we have passed the first threshold! We will get 8 000 USD from the European Innovation Program. Swedish Department for Agriculture has approved our application.This is for setting... (Read More)

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