Hive note entries made easy and effective'

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Bidata professional Beekeeping software.

• Hive note entries made easy and effective.

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Customer requirements

• 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

• 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.
Basic 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 queens 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

• 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 select-ion 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 with- in 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

• 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.

• 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.