4G Hive Scales

Know your bees, weigh your bee

Knowing the weight of hives is particularly important for commercial and migratory hobbyists with hives in remote areas without WiFi.

Our 4G Hive Scales provide the solution for those remote apiaries by connecting to the 4G Mobile Network to send data to the Cloud.  The NB IOT Hive Scales are preferred because of coverage in remote areas, but 4G still has a single advantage as more hive scales can be connected to a single 4G or Dongle Hive Scale.

A 4G LTE Hotspot is installed in 4G Hive Scales to create a WiFi Hotspot and then lower-cost WiFi Hive Scales connect to the hotspot.

The 4G Hive Scales use a data SIM card and dongle and data costs are considerably higher than NB IoT.

Our preferred data supplier is M2Mone, which uses the whole Telstra network for the best remote coverage. A beekeeper requires only one SIM/dongle in one 4G Hive Scale per apiary.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 
Beekeepers are ever practical, creating solutions that just work.
4G Hive Scale with Dongle and SIM card

HOW IT WORKS:

                                            

Fatbees uses m2mone.com.au as our preferred data provider for all our Hive Scales.

 

M2M has a support service in Australia with Australian support staff that you can ring and talk to. You won't wait for hours on the phone or have to press lots of numbers and listen to inane recorded messages. You just talk to a real person that actually helps and gets you sorted quick smart.