Bloom forecasting and hive monitoring, in service of precision beekeeping.
Knowing when and where melliferous plants will bloom is the difference between a good harvest and a lost season. FLORAPIS is the platform AgriZapp built for beekeepers: it cross-references in-hive sensor data with regional weather stations to anticipate the flowering windows of six nectar-bearing species, closing the loop with beekeepers' own field observations.
What we built
Geolocated apiaries & hives — GPS position history for nomadic beekeeping, moving hives to follow the blooms
In-hive sensor sync — weight, humidity and temperature collected from 3bee control units
Automated weather pipeline — daily data from 92 ARPAT/SIR Toscana stations plus 16-day forecasts
Phenology engine — growing degree-day thresholds per species, computed per weather cell and year
Sightings & alerts — beekeepers log observed blooms, the system notifies predicted windows
Six species tracked — clover, sulla, sainfoin, black locust, linden, chestnut
One hive, one whole winter
Weight (kg)Internal humidity (%)
Hive "Florapis" (apiary "Casa") — weight and internal humidity logged roughly every 2 hours by the 3bee sensor, Dec 20, 2024 – Mar 17, 2025 (88 days, 1,169 readings). The slow weight decline is the colony's natural consumption of winter stores: the same kind of signal the model cross-references with weather forecasts to recognise the onset of a nectar flow.
How it works
From raw data to a decision at the apiary: sensors feed the phenology model, which estimates the flowering window for each apiary; alerts notify the beekeeper, and their field observations flow back into the model as calibration data.