Two young people invented an app to monitor climate change with beehives. And save the bees.

Check the climate change through the hivesWith this simple but effective idea, two students from Arco, in the province of Trento, both born in 1999, Samuele Dassatti and Andrea Zanin, have given birth to an innovative app capable of winning awards and attracting the attention of a giant like Microsoft. Specifically, the application developed by these two students from the University of Trento aims to help beekeepers mountain to monitor the environmental conditions their hives, so as to also monitor the health of the bees. A noble intention not only for the protection of this species but, more generally, to monitor the entire surrounding environment.

APP TO SAVE BEEHIVES

Le apiIn fact, they are essential for our ecosystem, being a true thermometer of the conditions of the environment we live in. It's no coincidence that, in times of global warming and uncontrolled use of pesticides, their numbers are continually decreasing. This trend is absolutely essential to reverse, and 'Beehave,' the name of the app developed by Dassatti and Zanin, is moving precisely in this direction. The goal is to monitor the health of bees and hives in real time, so that they can be protect as best as possible and in good time.

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CLIMATE CHANGE API

The idea of ​​developing this app is the result of a series of favorable elements, which shed light on a education model, that of Trentino, particularly virtuousThe two students from Arco are only in their first year of university, but nevertheless they came second with their app in the European competition launched by annual forum on the strategy for the Alpine macro-region (Eusalp) of the European Commission, which was held in Innsbruck. A great result, achieved with a solid foundation thanks to an educational program that provided them with all the tools they needed to take flight. 

BEEHAVE

Specifically, the two boys attended a innovative high school, the Maffei in Riva del Garda, where they had a trial tablet and a particularly effective school-work alternation plan. The students, in fact, who have always been passionate about video games and PCs, had the opportunity to gain experience in Witlab, a laboratory and incubator in Rovereto started by Emanuele Rocco, a physicist with a PhD from Harvard. Within this facility, they had the time and tools to develop their projects. A profitable job Samuele and Andrea capitalized on this the following year by presenting a business plan that convinced the Innsbruck jury. Not only that, Samuele, who in the previous months had already developed 'Fluently,' an app for managing a school diary from a tablet, had already been invited to Seattle several times by Microsoft to follow up on his ideas.

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