Hivewise - Hive Monitoring and Honey Traceability Platform for a Beekeeping Cooperative

Dashboard, disease cases, sensor alerts, deliveries and batches, and the batch detail with its traceability tree. Every case, alert and batch opens its own detail.

Jar lots, batch, drums, harvests, hives, apiaries and members in one tree, with every treatment on those hives in the 12 months before harvest.

Withdrawal period, disease freeze and moisture against the 18.5% client limit. A drum that fails is held or rejected with the reason, such as hives under withdrawal until 18 May.

26 apiaries in 3 areas, 22 sensor alerts, 7 disease cases, 20 deliveries with 29 drums and 8 honey batches with lab tests and jar lots.

Honey That Could Not Be Traced

Honey is food, so the General Food Law expects traceability one step back and one step forward. With only a slip per drum, a lab failure could not be tied to the harvests, hives and treatments that produced it, or to the jar lots it went into.

Medicine Records and Withdrawal Periods

Under Regulation (EU) 2019/6, beekeepers must generally record each veterinary medicine with its product, batch, dose, date and withdrawal period. Records were scattered and often missing the withdrawal date, so honey from a treated hive could reach a drum.

Notifiable Disease Without a Paper Trail

American foulbrood is generally notifiable in Slovenia, and the EU Animal Health Law lists the small hive beetle and Tropilaelaps mites. A suspicion goes to the official vet through its own channels, while the cooperative has to stop moves and honey from the affected hives and warn apiaries nearby.

Out-Apiaries Nobody Visits Daily

Swarms and thefts were noticed days late, including hives placed in client orchards. Sensors can raise the alarm, but only if each alert says what happened, where and what to do next, without exposing apiary locations, which are treated as confidential.