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An IoT Beehive Network for Monitoring Urban Biodiversity: Vision, Method, and Architecture

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Environmental sustainability issues have received global attention in recent decades, both at scientific and administrative levels. Despite the scrupulous studies and initiatives around such issues, they remain largely unresolved, and sometimes even unknown. A complete understanding of the quality of our living environment that surrounds us, especially urban places, where we spend most of our lives would help improve living conditions for both humans and other species present. The concept of Intelligent Beehives for urban biodiversity encapsulates and leverages biotic elements such as bio-indicators (e.g. bees), and pollination, with technologies like AI and IoT instrumentation. Together they comprise a smart service that shapes the backbone of a real-time, AI-enabled environmental dashboard. In this vision paper, we outline and discuss our solution architecture and prototypization for such servified intelligent beehives. We focus our discussion on the hives’ predictive modelling abilities that enable Machine-Learning service operations – or MLOps – for increasing the sustainability of urban biodiversity.

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    https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/news/communications-material/.

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    This includes Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL).

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    See also https://dzone.com/articles/machine-and-operations-learning-mlops.

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Sangiovanni, M., Schouten, G., van den Heuvel, WJ. (2020). An IoT Beehive Network for Monitoring Urban Biodiversity: Vision, Method, and Architecture. In: Dustdar, S. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing. SummerSOC 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1310. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64846-6_3

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