🦺 Honey House Inspection Board

About this simulation

Beekeeping operations mix hand tools, ladders, powered extraction machinery and loaded vehicles — each with a different failure mode and a different safe inspection interval. This board lays out a stylised honey house with six equipment stations, each topped by a beacon that reports its inspection status the way a compliance log would: green while within its interval, amber as the next check falls due, and red once it has lapsed.

How it works

• Every station has its own recommended re-inspection interval — daily strap checks for a loaded vehicle, weekly hand-tool checks, monthly ladder and uncapping-table checks, and so on.
• Days since last audit ages every station by the same amount, but each beacon reacts on its own interval — short-interval items (like load straps) turn red long before long-interval items (like the ladder).
• The overall compliance tally at the top counts how many of the six stations are currently green, amber or red.

Controls

• Days since last audit — simulates time passing since the last full inspection round.
• Focus station — moves the camera to a station and shows it isolated.
• Load straps secured — toggles whether the vehicle's hive pallet is correctly strapped; unsecuring it sags the load and forces its beacon red regardless of the audit date.
• Show status labels — toggles floating status tags above each beacon.
• Auto-rotate view — spins the camera slowly around the honey house.
• ↺ Reset audit — sets the audit clock back to day 0 (everything compliant). Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom.

Did you know?

Load-securing failures on short journeys are one of the most common causes of apiary vehicle incidents — a pallet of hive boxes that looks stable at a standstill can shift dramatically under braking or cornering if strapping is skipped "just for this trip."