Transcript Bidata professional Beekeeping software. Hive note entries made easy and effective. Customer requirements:  There is a need for collecting and comparing data in the apiary.  These comparisons.

Bidata professional
Beekeeping software.
Hive note entries made easy and
effective.
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Customer requirements:
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There is a need for collecting and comparing
data in the apiary.
 These
comparisons are needed for improved
beekeeping standards and profitability.
 Data comparison is needed for selecting queens,
particularly for queen breeding.
 There is a need to keep track of Varroa infestation
and specific bee related diseases.
 Graphic data display makes direct comparison easy.
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Objectives:
 Make
software to help beekeepers perform
routine tasks.
 Make the software easy to use.
 Make it easy to retrieve useful data for
comparing queen performance.
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Key data needed:
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Honey harvest. The more honey the better, but it also depends on the
work you put in to get it . Think about 6 hours work to get 45 kg of
honey versus 10 hours work to get 60 kg of honey. I doubt that the
extra 4 hours work is economically viable!
Aggressiveness: (important for your working conditions)
Swarm tendency: (important to avoid wasting time catching bees)
Steadiness: (important for the work needed to clear a frame of bees or
to find the queen)
Sickness: ( the less medicine you need the better honey you harvest
and the lower your workload)
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Organisation of the input:
Below is shown a diagram of how the data is organised on the
quick input screen.
organisation of the input
Queen
Queen Mother
Drone Mother
Hive number and apiary
Variable data
Disease and Varroa treatment
Basic data
Graphic show of data
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How does this software help
you ? no.1
BiData Software is designed as a tool to help
beekeepers to improve their beekeeping.
 The User interface is designed to make it as easy
as possible to input data and to retrieve data from
the database in a graphical way that makes it easy
to compare data.
 Although there is a temptation to skip note taking
when you are busy in the bee yard, the time spent
taking notes is not wasted. Carefully taken notes
are essential to successful beekeeping
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How does this software help
you ? no.2
The queen’s basic data is built using
buckfast notation.
The queen identification is built from your
Initials, Race, Year, ID and the hive
number; the program asks for this basic
data when you add a new beehive to
your apiary.
It is of course possible to enter another
kind of identification for the queen..
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Queen breeder entry screen 2a
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Queen time table on queen
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How does this software help
you ? no.3
The date for the hive note is simply
taken from a calendar.
This calendar is also used when you
want to add a new hive note for the
queen.
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How does this software help
you ? no.4
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A new input screen
makes it very easy to
enter data into the
database.
The screen contains
all the available
variable data that is
needed for the
beekeeper to keep
track of the apiary.
The control of Varroa
Destructor, and the
various bee diseases is
kept in a separate
database.
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The disease Database entry
To make it easy to keep
track of disease and
treatment, you have a
special dedicated
database, with link to
the hive. The various
items can be selected
by drop lists.
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New Grouping and Colouring of
Hives
By use of multi selection it is possible to
group and colour mark
the hives. The multi
selection can also be
used for bulk adding
data
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Graphic show of data:
Data can be shown in a graphical way
making it easy to compare data within one bee yard. The graphic display is
based on an index calculation made
from the daily hive notes.
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Search engine:
The search in the database is
done by calling up a specially
designed search form, where
the data sought is simply
clicked with the mouse.
The resulting data search is
then shown in a spreadsheet
style window, where only the
selected data is shown.
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Example of a query:
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Here is an example of
a query done by search
on: hive, a single bee
yard, queen, honey
harvest and Index.
A query can be done
on all fields in the
database and can also
be shown in sorted
order.
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Our advantages:
Because EDBi is a foundation of active beekeepers,
founded with the purpose of making a software tool for
use within beekeeping, the software has evolved to be of
maximum usefulness and minimum workload for the
busy beekeeper.
Because the software development is ongoing, the user
interface continues to improve, and user reaction to the
work is very welcome.
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Advantages: 1.
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The Software is easy to use and is designed to minimise time at
the computer.
It makes data comparison very easy.
It gives an easy way to compare queens within the beeyard, but
also queens placed in different beeyards, which is not normally
possible. This is due to the index calculation feature.
The software has been developed with help from professional
beekeepers and queen breeders, and the author has been
keeping bees for 25 years now. This guarantees that the concept
is not just taken out of the air, but is relevant to and derived
from experience in practical beekeeping.
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What is needed from You:
All you need to do is to take notes in the
beeyard, and when time is available,
transfer this data into the software.
When the Bee Year is over, just
calculate the index, and you have a tool
to help you judge your queens in a
meaningful way.
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