The BUZZcoin™ whitepaper 3.0 update
One of the first working real world implementations for a blockchain project picks up speed with an award winning new partnership & satellite integration.
We’re very excited to release our updated Whitepaper 3.0 with details about the Pollenity partnership, 4.0 masternodes and the upcoming swap to 5.0! Are you ready for a trip to the moon?
BUZZcoin™ is a non-profit blockchain implementation that aims to help save the worlds declining bee population. Join us in supporting the global effort to #savethebees by providing collected data to scientific projects and organizations that focus on saving the worlds bee population.
By providing this data to the network and being able to get highly accurate data from the hives, beekeepers are rewarded in cryptocurrency for their data collection. This will ensure mass adoption of the smart hive devices.
The architecture of BUZZcoin™ is transitioning from a proof-of-stake coin into one of the worlds first working real world implementations for a blockchain project.
Enjoy this abbreviated version of the Whitepaper 3.0!
POLLENITY™ JOINS THE BUZZCOIN™ FAMILY The development on the BC-HMD prototype started as early as October 2017, since then the core team has built up strong ties with future partners for marketing, production and implementation of the BC-HMD™. In February 2019 BUZZCOIN, INC. announced that it has partnered with Pollenity (former Bee Smart Technologies), the world’s most advanced remote beehive monitoring technology, to create a blockchain implementation that aims to help save the worlds declining bee population.
The partnership, targeting new, inexperienced and commercial beekeepers internationally, will utilize Pollenity’s proprietary sensor devices and BUZZCOIN’s unique blockchain technology and cryptocurrency to create a worldwide reward-based network, BUZZCOIN Hive Mind Network (BC-HMN™), for gathering beehive data.
The beekeepers who subscribed to use BUZZCOIN™ will be joining a community of hundreds of beekeepers who are already sharing their hive data with each other and research organizations. Furthermore, Pollenity’s existing customers will be presented with the opportunity to create an additional revenue stream for their beekeeping operations regardless of how many hives they have.
PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT The BC-HMD prototype development started in late 2017. Thanks to the connections of the core team, an agreement with a developer was signed. The device is now ready for field testing. The development of the hardware’s firmware and software implementation have been completed in late 2018.
The core team is very excited to have such experts as Pollenity’s CEO Sergey Petrov and CTO Kostadin Angelov working with the BUZZcoin Team on the BC-HMD. Pollenity’s acoustic pattern detection engine is something that has not been seen before on the market.
ABOUT POLLENITY Pollenity (former Bee Smart Technologies), developer of the world’s most advanced beehive monitoring technology, allows beekeepers to improve the health of their honeybee colonies by providing them with real-time data and analytics from inside the hive. They can follow the suggestions and alerts from the AI-powered system directly or share the information with online communities to help them better understand the intricate or geo-specific conditions for a particular honeybee colony without having to leave their home or perform stressful unnecessary manual check-ups on their hives.
Data and personal findings of BUZZcoin/Pollenity users can help researchers better understand the global honeybee crisis and create sustainable beekeeping practices for insurance of the global food supply.
Since its founding in 2015, Pollenity [previous Bee Smart Technologies] has been named Best IoT Startup in the Central European Start up Awards 2017, has been included to the list of IEEE’s N3XT Stars 2017, won the Health and Environment track at the World Summit Awards, Google’s “New Europe 100” innovative startups and has received media recognition from numerous international media such as BBC and Financial Times.
SOLVING A GLOBAL PROBLEM
WE NEED BEES
The work of bee populations around the world is critical to maintain organic variety and diversity in vegetation of all shapes and sizes across the planet. This not only includes farmed bee colonies, but also countless species of local bees. Humanity depends on bees and their activity. Our planets food chain will collapse without bees and their pollination.
The modern world of apiaries requires a safe, non-invasive tool that provides visibility into colony activity, hive health, active status and threat detection.
This insight will enable beekeepers to actively remain aware of what is happening with their hives whether on location or remotely.
CHALLENGES
There are difficult challenges ahead — the tasks are highly complex and many things must change. Parts of the challenge is a rethinking in the usage of pesticides and chemicals in agriculture. Since we currently can’t offer solutions to all existing problems our main goal is to increase global awareness in the way bee hives are maintained and monitored.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to create the foundation for a global network providing interested parties (government agencies, research institutes, scientific studies) that are actively working on solutions to save the world wide bee population with highly accurate data of bee hives.
OUR SOLUTION
The BUZZcoin™ Hive Mind Device (“BC-HMD™”) and its Queen Middleware Masternode (“BCQMM™”) are the BUZZcoin project’s first products. Our innovative devices for beekeepers collect bee hive data in real-time and rewarding the users in cryptocurrency for providing the analytic data. This additional income will encourage the widespread usage of the BC-HMD.
In addition to the hives health and threat detection, our technology will be able to measure if the bee hives are maintained according to ethical beekeeping standards.
The BC-HMD features include:
* Acoustic Pattern Detection
* Threat Detection
* Colony Health Status
* Weather Impact Data
* Direct-to-satellite uplink
* Highly Accurate Weight Measurements
* Temperature and Humidity
* Up to 6 month battery life
* wifi (only for data download)
* Optional 4g module POLLENITY BC-HMD INTEGRATED HIVE
THE DEVICE
The BUZZcoin™ Hive Mind Device, BC-HMD™ is a fully featured smart device with sensors for beehives utilizing precision monitoring, analytics and threat detection that we are developing with our partner Pollenity.
The BC-HMD is powered by Pollenity’s cutting-edge IoT technologies and precision hive sensors. A direct-to-satellite connection is already build into Pollentiy’s PCB’s and allows data transfers on regular intervals to a satellite
network in orbit.
There will be an optional 4g module available that will allow the data stored on the BC-HMD to be synced with the cloud at standard intervals.
The digital signals produced by the BC-HMD are broadcast at intervals. However, these signals will not exceed a total of 8 minutes per day and
we are researching the optimal shielding cloth for the hives to further minimize exposure.
Only when using the optional 4g module Real time Alert Monitoring will be available and enables sending important alerts on different statuses immediately through available channels (Messaging, E-Mail, App) using the BUZZcoin HMD Software Suite.
DIRECT-TO-SATELLITE
Through Pollenity BUZZcoin will gain access to the latest satellite uplink technology that is already integrated in Pollenity PCB’s. This sets BUZZcoin one giant leap ahead of the competition by integrating Direct-to-satellite IoT technology into the BUZZcoin™ Hive Mind Device (BC-HMD™) and BUZZcoin™ Hive Mind Network (BC-HMN™). The first satellites for this network have already been deployed to orbit in late 2018. The network will be further expanded in the first quarter of 2019.
Each nano satellite in this network is circling earth at only 600 km altitude 16 times a day — compared to bigger satellites that are usually orbiting around 35.800 km. As soon as all satellites planned for this network have been deployed worldwide coverage will be available.
The big advantage of this system is the integrated modem on the PCB that wakes up the moment the satellite passes over the BC-HMD and starts transmitting data. This conserves battery life of the BC-HMD and enables data transmission in remote areas where no cell coverage is available.
NEXT PHASE
The prototype of the BC-HMD is ready for testing. As soon as the official testing phase starts, BC-HMD device manufactured by our partner
Pollenity, will be delivered to selected beekeepers to gather more data and feedback. After the official testing phase, the device will be finetuned and finalized based on gathered feedback and will be made available for purchase.
…READ THE FULL WHITEPAPER: https://www.buzzcoin.info/wp.pdf
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BUZZcoin™ is using blockchain technology to gather data from its BC-HMD™ (BUZZcoin Hive Mind Device) and BC-QMM™ (BUZZcoin Queen Middleware Masternodes) SmartHives Devices all over the planet with gathered on the BC-HMN™ (Hive Mind Network) the goal of reversing the bee depopulation. For more information about our project please see our Whitepaper at https://www.buzzcoin.info/wp.pdf
