📡🐝 Offline Apiary Data Relay

About this simulation

Many out-apiaries sit in mobile "not-spots" — fields, orchards and moorland fringes with no reliable signal. A beekeeper doing the rounds still needs to log feeding, treatment and inspection data at every stop. Good field apps and paper backups keep working offline: every record is written to local storage the moment it's created, then queued for upload rather than lost.

How it works

• The green‑tinted circle around the signal mast is the coverage zone; everywhere else is a not‑spot where the van collects records but cannot send them.
• Each amber cube is one buffered field record (a feed check, a treatment note, a weight reading) picked up at an apiary stop.
• Once the van re‑enters the coverage zone, buffered records upload in a burst — the queue drains and the "synced this session" counter climbs.
• If the round never brings the van back into range, records simply keep queuing — nothing is lost, it just waits for signal.

Controls

• Signal range — coverage radius of the mast; a bigger radius means more of the round has signal.
• Apiaries on round — how many out‑apiary stops the van visits per loop.
• Round speed — how quickly the van drives the loop.
• 📶 coverage overlay — toggle the translucent dome over the mast's signal zone.
• ↺ New round — reshuffles the apiary stops and resets the counters. Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom.

Did you know?

UK Ofcom mobile coverage maps show thousands of partial not‑spots in exactly the kind of rural, hedge‑lined and wooded ground that beekeepers favour for out‑apiaries — which is why offline‑first record apps matter as much to beekeeping as GPS did to early precision farming.