# An Internet of Things-Based Low-Power Integrated Beekeeping Safety and Conditions Monitoring System
## 2 Related Work on Internet of Things (IoT) Beehive Incident Response and Management Systems  
IoT Precision Agriculture has been extensively developing and interesting research has been carried out over the last years. Numerous amounts of such IoT systems are currently used (or proposed for use) in apiculture. An interesting survey on IoT management frameworks is presented by [PERSON] [11], where the architecture of each existing IoT framework is explained. Taxonomy between Software-Defined IoT (SDIoT) and non-Software-Defined Networking (SDN) frameworks is also pinpointed, followed by a comparison of SDIoT and non-SDN-based current frameworks. The pros and cons of each framework are also analyzed.  
In the \"SmartFarmNet\" framework [12], an IoT-based framework is proposed that collects environmental, soil, fertilization, and irrigation data. It concentrates virtually all data from the IoT sensors, actuators, cameras, and weather stations in the cloud. Furthermore, a comparison analysis between IoT cloud platforms such as UBIDOTS, Xively, SensorCloud, IBM Bluemix, Amazon IoT, IoTCloud, Apache Storm and the proposed SmartNet is presented. The advantages of SmartNet is that it supports virtually any IoT device, it provides rapid analysis of data in real-time, it is integrated with Semantic Web and it supports a do-it-yourself visualization and data analysis capability.  
[PERSON] [13] presents the domains and the related applications in the area of IoT, further categorizing all the IoT network technologies in smart cities and agriculture appliance. The features, the characteristics, and the availability of all the known IoT network technologies and routing protocols are analyzed. Furthermore, the networking challenges regarding the security, the interoperability, the identification, the scalability, the big data, the mobility and the energy efficiencies are reviewed.  
[PERSON] [14] outlines the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployments for various farming applications, analyzing the differences between terrestrial and underground WSNs. The usefulness and the potential applications of WSNs in the area of precision agriculture is discussed and comparison between existing sensor platforms and communication technologies is undertaken.  
[PERSON] [15] performed an analysis of architectures and communication protocols in the area of precision agriculture. A user-centric model on the design and integration of edge computing, fog communication, and cloud services is proposed. Architectures based on two levels of communications and processing nodes are outlined, and an experimental work based on the proposed architecture is presented, by the use case of a greenhouse.  
The most important issues of modern beekeeping involve: 1. Conditions regarding viability, eating habits of the bee swarm, environmental-hive conditions or interventions by external factors and 2. Safety of the beekeeping installation (for both moving and migration apiaries). Both issues are confronted with the use of incident response and management systems that use sensors and actuators operating over IoT infrastructures. In the following sub-sections, existing security and conditions incident response and management systems are presented.