Oracle Openworld 2018 and Buzzing Bees

Each day I will post a short article on highlights from Oracle Openworld. But before I share Openworld news, I thought as it is a Saturday afternoon in the UK and early morning here in San Francisco let's start with Honey.

This week we announced our partnership with World Bee Project. Each year our Interns and Graduates do a project that benefits the environment, education or people. It is rare we can find a project that covers all three, but we have with this partnership.

Earlier this year my team came to me with the world bee project (thank you Andy, Asaf, Ian and the Caroline's). Over 30% of the food we consume comes from pollination and in parallel we had a reduction of 54% in Honey Bees between 1985-2005 which is shocking. Honey Bees are a key to pollination, so we better look after them.

We have placed two types of IOT sensors Buzzbox (https://www.osbeehives.com/) and Arnia (https://www.arnia.co.uk/) onto two Beehives we have at Oracle Reading

This streams data into the IOT Oracle Cloud we have developed through to an autonomous database. We are also overlaying weather, mapping, etc. via the Open Data policy (https://data.gov.uk/) to see how happy or unhappy the hives are in Reading.

Since announcing the partnership we have had contact from Austrila, Africa, US in wanting to engage. This is when Cloud becomes brilliant, we can connect IOT sensors around the world to the Oracle Cloud allowing us to accelerate the growth of data. More the data the better we can take the sound via the IOT sensor, convert to data and train a machine learning algorithm. The data has a benefit to scientists and bee keeper. A simple ChatBot App allows us to engage the Bee keeper on what we have learned.

The World Bee Project will be showcased at Oracle Openworld. Have a great weekend!