Sensibee is an autonomous pollinator monitoring system that uses solar-powered camera stations to continuously photograph and identify visiting pollinators using AI, providing real-time biodiversity data 365 days a year. The system addresses the critical need for scalable environmental monitoring as pollinator populations face unprecedented declines, offering 1,000-fold more data than traditional methods without harming the insects being studied.

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Pollinator populations are collapsing. The UK's 1,500+ pollinator species—essential for 75% of food production—face unprecedented declines. Similar trends worldwide. Current monitoring requires scarce taxonomic expertise, costs thousands per survey, and provides only sparse data snapshots leaving key questions unanswerable, and making evidence-based land management practices inaccessible.out of reach.

Sensibee: Autonomous, AI-powered pollinator monitoring operating 365 days/year.
Our solar-powered camera stations attract and photograph pollinators, upload via 4G to cloud-based AI for real-time species identification, delivering actionable insights through intelligent dashboards.

→ 1,000× more data than traditional methods, continuously, without harm, accessible to all. 

Our aim: Deploy 10,000 Sensibee™ across the UK to create a comprehensive pollinator monitoring network—providing the data foundation to reverse species decline and secure our food systems.

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