thurrock bees , i have posted several videos and notes on security, here is just a few more pointers that i have set up myself, are we sitting comfortably then i will begin!!
after many conversations with many people on this forum and a few who arnt i have a complete security system running at two of the three out apairies i am running as part of a group of three beeks, the third is local to someone and has a differant system, i will only roughly describe what i have for securtiy reasons but the ideas are there for people to run with if they want,
each site is at the far end of a field so a quick grab and run is not posible, each stand is made from concrete using concrete blocks and paving slabs with each hive set as a pair and screwed to the concrete,as so are the brood boxes
now for the techno stuff
at each site there is a solar panel suppling power to a pentium one computer these computers also have a drongle pluged into it as well as six cameras four are hard wired two are wireless with solar panel rechargers one camera runs the lane and the others are all set over several areas of cover and lastly there is a set ( many ) of micro wave and infer red beams surrounding the perimiter al camers are motion sensitive as are also tripped by the security beams , so far we have had over several months use many lovely photographs of so***G pigeons landing on rooves but no deer we have tried several times to get around it but have failed and evan if you did we would still have car registration plate details and photos of mug shots, cost wise each site cost £500 to set up with the cameras comming from fleabay at £5 each wires were pinched sorry collected from work mainly cat 5 cable( longest length and easyest to get hold of) computer are £50 each one set of mouse , keyboard and screen, they most costly part is the container each set is housed in , each container was £100 and know i wont say what it is because you will know where to look, but lastly each system can be accessed from my home so a look at anytime of the day is posible