Autonomous pollinator monitoring

Real-time biodiversity data, from a station that runs itself.

Sensibee is a solar-powered camera station that photographs pollinators as they visit and identifies them with cloud AI — giving any site a continuous, non-lethal record of what's flying. Already monitoring pollinators from London to the United States.

How Sensibee works

One self-contained station. It attracts pollinators, photographs them, and does the identification in the cloud — so you get species-level data without a specialist on site or a single insect harmed.

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Solar & autonomous

Self-powered stations run unattended through the seasons, drawing pollinators to a fixed point and photographing each visitor.

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Cloud-AI identification

Each image is sent over mobile data to cloud AI, which names the species and updates the live picture within the hour.

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Non-lethal

Insects are photographed and left to carry on foraging — nothing is trapped or killed.

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Continuous, not snapshots

One station watches the same spot every day, building a dense, comparable record no single survey could match.

Why pollinators

Pollinators respond quickly and locally to changes in habitat, so watching them closely is one of the earliest ways to tell whether nature is recovering or slipping.

1,500+
pollinator species in the UK alone, most needing scarce expert ID
75%
of food production depends on animal pollination
365
days a year of monitoring, vs a handful of survey visits
£13.6M
Defra / UKRI programme backing the rollout
In the ground, right now

Not a prototype. A network you can join.

Sensibee stations are already monitoring pollinators in public parks, private estates and farmland — with a stated aim of 100,000 worldwide. Every station adds continuous, comparable, location-specific data to a growing picture of pollinator health.

🇬🇧 King's Cross, London

Stations image pollinators feeding across a range of planted habitats, identifying species and counting them in real time.

🇺🇸 Astoria Park, USA

The first organisation in the United States to deploy Sensibee, tracking pollinator activity to guide habitat work.

🏛️ Backed by Defra & UKRI

Supported through a three-year, £13.6M Department for Environment and UK Research and Innovation programme.

🎯 Aiming for 100,000

A planned international network of stations to make pollinator monitoring routine, not exceptional.

Data you can act on

The result isn't an archive to analyse later — it's a live signal, and records you can put to work.

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Real-time dashboards

See which pollinators are active now, not months after a survey.

Reporting-ready records

Time-stamped, location-specific data that stands up in biodiversity reporting and audits.

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Lower cost per data point

No specialist call-outs or travel, so continuous data costs a fraction of manual surveys.

About this domain

ammod.de previously hosted AMMOD — Automated Multisensor Stations for Monitoring of Biodiversity — a German research project (2019–2022) on automated biodiversity monitoring. A brief archive is kept here for people who arrive from older citations and links.