SAGEGIS, LLC oversees the solutions engineering effort to support the potential development of a Beehive Health Management System (H2MS) hoping to enable both the commercial and the “backyard” beekeeper to remotely monitor the health, production, and risk level of multiple beehives throughout the year. Hive maintenance, hive health status, and risk alerts will be provided to the beekeeper daily as conditions in the hive change. H2MS alerts include the hive analysis and recommended beekeeper actions, remedies, response time, and the estimated change in hive production status caused by any noted event. Secure, reliable, and far-reaching communications channels are required for this system, which is why SAGEGIS LLC was the right choice for this study.

Some principle advantages that asymmetric cryptography offers are that it allows for message authentication. It solves the problem of key distribution (key exchange) with the involved parties having their public key “in the open”, while the private encryption key is held secret by the user. Asymmetric encryption allows for supporting non-repudiation and also can ensure message integrity using a mathematical checksum, which can aid in the detection of tampering.

SAGEGIS, LLC is currently building an online GIS asset management tool to empower HOA volunteers in the Belmont Bay area