Ecological Systems and Devices Annotation << Back MONITORING OF VITAL PROCESSES BEE COLONY THROUGH THE CONTROL OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TEMPERATURE FIELDS IN THE HIVE A.F. Rybochkin, A.A. Bartenev Monitoring of vital processes bee colony is done using control the distribution of temperature fi elds in the hive based on the matrix of thermocouple sensors. The mathematical models, which allow more accurate to calculate the values of temperatures on the plane bee frame in thermocouple grid nodes, are proposed. In the summer season a beekeeper interested in the presence of brood on the bees frames, the degree of its development, the number of bee frames employed for the brood. In the winter season a beekeeper interested in a power of bee colonies wintering by a number of cell occupied by bees. It is considered the control of the distribution of thermal fi elds in the hive using a thermocouple grid; it is proposed a mathematical model for a more accurate calculation of the temperature by the read values of thermoelectric voltages in the nodes of the thermocouple grid. It is suggested visualization software modeling stages of development of bee brood, as well as clusters of bees during their hibernation. Keywords: Temperature fi elds; thermocouple grid; thermoelectric voltage; bee brood; states; cluster of bees; visualization; mathematical modeling software simulation. Contacts: E-mail: Anat_ryboch@mail.ru Pp. 03-11.