Benjamin Foote
Ben has been a backyard beekeeper for over 10 years and a generalist hacker from a very early age. Several moons ago my friend Thomas Hudson developed the hardware platform of the Bee Counter and we have sporadically nudged the project forward several times while we've kept bees in Portland Oregon. Ben sometimes consults in security and old school systems administration projects. But never mind that stuff, this is about beekeeping.
Session
I count bees with a doohickey attached to my bee hive! Let me show you all the fun to be had with an ESP32 and custom board and how to send data via MQTT to Postgres and then pull it into Grafana for the most glorious graphs and analysis of what the bees are doing. There are a surprising number of things that you can tell from the data.