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An AI-powered platform that autonomously detects and monitors honey bee mites using computer vision — no manual inspections or hive disruption needed.
About
Extrasense is an AI-powered surveillance platform that automates pest detection across diverse environments — from agriculture to urban infrastructure. Our brand is built on the belief that early, data-driven insights can transform how we protect food systems, property, and public health. Unlike traditional pest control methods that rely on manual scouting or reactive treatments, Extrasense delivers real-time intelligence through computer vision and machine learning. Our scalable, sensor-agnostic, and environment-flexible solutions enable partners to make faster, smarter decisions wherever threats emerge.
Key Benefits
Extrasense enables automated, early detection of harmful pests like honey bee mites without manual inspections or invasive methods. Our AI-powered computer vision system reduces labor costs, accelerates response time, and increases the accuracy of surveillance — protecting bee health, improving biosecurity, and supporting pollination-dependent industries. Because our solution is sensor-agnostic and easy to deploy, it scales across environments and geographies.
Applications
Extrasense’s AI-powered pest monitoring platform, already proven in agricultural and industrial pest control contexts, can be seamlessly repurposed for honey bee mite detection with only minimal modification. The technology has demonstrated success identifying over 150 insect species with high accuracy in settings ranging from greenhouse to broad-acre farms, showcasing its versatility and scalability. By simply retraining its deep learning models to recognize Varroa mites – the leading cause of honey bee colony losses– the same hardware-agnostic system can automatically spot and alert for mite infestations in hives.
The intended target market for this adaptation is mid- to large-scale beekeeping operations (commercial apiaries and pollination services) that manage hundreds or thousands of hives and need an efficient, scalable monitoring solution. Leveraging a platform already tested in other pest detection domains ensures easy deployment into beekeeping: the solution is highly scalable (capable of monitoring numerous hives in real time via existing sensor infrastructure) and adaptable (its AI can be quickly trained for new pests), making it directly relevant to protecting honey bees.